{"id":8884,"date":"2014-08-11T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2014-08-11T08:29:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:29:45","slug":"rob-thomas-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/11\/rob-thomas-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Thomas Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"

From: ROB T
\nSubject: hi from rob thomas<\/p>\n

Re: Rhinofy-Matchbox Twenty Primer<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Bob,<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always enjoyed reading your letters and your recent take on matchbox twenty (or 20) was no exception.\u00c2\u00a0 There were even some points in there that we, ourselves, have talked about from time to time. But there were also, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you would imagine, a couple parts that I feel completely miss the point of who we are and what we have accomplished.<\/p>\n

Somewhere between being today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hitmakers and being yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s news is a zone that I would expect you to understand better than most. An artist that has had enough success to be able to pull together a fan base that genuinely cares about the music they are making even if they aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fully a part of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153love me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d game we see playing out on reality shows and in celebrity magazines.<\/p>\n

We may never be cool. We may never be tastemakers. We may even never again have hits on top 40 radio. But when we put out an album and go on tour there are more than enough people to listen and come see us to give us a career that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enviable to 99% of people who do what we do.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to believe that our career is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153over\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when so many people still come out to see us play.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, we would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve loved to have you stop by our last matchbox tour to give your take on our status but chances are we wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have heard you over the sound of our sold out crowds enjoying themselves hearing music they love.<\/p>\n

I have nothing but respect for you and what you do but I feel like you have been so far on the inside for so long that you have lost touch with the best part of music. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s subjective. And if tens of thousands of people want to come see me or matchbox or anyone that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what a REAL career is.<\/p>\n

Step out from behind your computer sometime, Bob. There are real people out here who are fans of a great number of things that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you thought were long gone. And the artists they are fans of are having a lot of fun and enjoying their careers just fine.<\/p>\n

Rt<\/p>\n

p.s.
\nworking on a new solo album. Hope you dig it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From: ROB T Subject: hi from rob thomas Re: Rhinofy-Matchbox Twenty Primer Dear Bob, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always enjoyed reading your letters and your recent take on matchbox twenty (or 20) was no exception.\u00c2\u00a0 There were even some points in there that we, ourselves, have talked about from time to time. But there were also, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-2ji","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8886,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}