Category Archives: Bob Lefsetz
Lefsetz: Football’s for Losers Like Coldplay
Why are we so concerned about kids in Flint, but give NFL players a pass? Why are we up in arms about Michigan’s governor, but cry hosannas when a billionaire moves his football team to Los Angeles and Roger Goodell … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: Hell Freezes Over
I now like “Heard It In A Love Song.” I’m still shaking. I haven’t driven in snow that bad since the 1970s. Vail Pass is closed and I’m wondering whether to bother trying to make it to Telluride tomorrow, since … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Individuality is Everything
The Doors could never replace Jim Morrison and Apple can’t replace Steve Jobs… They teach us to get along, tell us institutions are king, but the truth is America succeeds because it’s the land of rugged individuals with a vision … Continue reading
Lefsetz: We Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Rams
I just don’t care… I never go to the movies and I’ll never see the Los Angeles Rams play live. That despite media telling me I need to pay attention. The truth is I’m on my own subliminal trip to … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Aretha Franklin’s Carole King Tribute a Nod to a Bygone Time
It brings tears to your eyes… What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the two musical highlights of the year were provided by septuagenarians? That’s right, Taylor Swift and Adele did not reach Mt. Everest … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Trump is Toast
Nate Silver told me Donald Trump can’t win… You remember Brother Nate, who called the last election which Mitt Romney thought he was gonna win and Karl Rove couldn’t believe he lost. Silver got it exactly right in the New … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Adele Flexes Muscles @ End of an Era
This is not a victory for the rank and file… The artists railing against streaming applaud Adele’s success after keeping “25” from Spotify, et al. They just don’t know it’s the last gasp of a dying paradigm and the birth … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Screw You, Adele
How the hell can we solve the world’s problems if the music business itself can’t do what’s right for the populace? Sixteen years after Napster, after living through P2P, track sales and now streaming, blind greed continues to reign in … Continue reading
Lefsetz: University of Missouri Fiasco
What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where the charge is led by football players? One in which money talks. That’s why the President resigned. The college was gonna lose a cool million if its football team … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: Where It All Went Terribly Wrong
The switch flipped back in 1980 – maybe the beginning of 1981… It coincided with the election of Ronald Reagan, but what really happened back then, what started in the late 1970s, was a focus on money. Baby Boomers didn’t … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Playing to Win (or Lose) by New Rules
“The Crowding-Out Effect of Gargantuan Movies” This has already happened in music, it’s just that nobody wants to admit it. A few superstar acts are making all the dough. The rest are blaming the Internet and Spotify for decimating their … Continue reading
Lefsetz: ‘The Donald’ Rules Truth Starved Republican Field
1. Money changes everything. If Donald Trump were poor, he’d have no traction. He gets attention, and in many cases a pass, because he’s a billionaire. That’s the nation we live in, one in which the rich have the power … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: ‘Inside Out’ the New Beatles?
We don’t do this anymore in the music business… We don’t have blockbuster acts reinventing themselves with every project, garnering stellar reviews and great customer word of mouth which ultimately rains coin and makes everybody happy. That’s right. After a … Continue reading
Leftsetz: Step Aside Headbangers, Country Rocks America Today
It’s a ROCK format! So, are those heirloom or cherry tomatoes? It even made the LA Times, the statement by country music consultant Keith Hill that he advises stations not to play two women in a row, that males are … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Then & Now
This “then” and “now” column from Bob Lefsetz totally channels former Squire publisher Tom Leathers. Check it: THEN Privacy NOW Everybody knows everything and despite protestations, (people) provide this information willingly, on Facebook, Instagram… We all want to be known, until … Continue reading
Lefsetz: Sack the Patriots Over Deflategate? Don’t Kid Yourself
Take away their Super Bowl victory… That’s right, strip them of their success, show that rules matter. But we don’t anymore in America. That’s what the underclass doesn’t understand…the level of cheating that goes on by their overlords, the rich and … Continue reading
Lefsetz: The Great Cable TV Ripoff Coming To An End
Nobody wants to watch the Discovery Channel… Only 2.9 million people viewed Naked and Afraid. But a 100 million paid for it. More than a buck a month. The CEO made $156 million. Now what? Lawsuits. Verizon is following the customer, … Continue reading
Lefsetz: The 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Sham
How did we get here? Where the only people who seem to care are those desirous of getting third-rate talent inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the old men who are on the nominating committee? Once … Continue reading
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Lefsetz: Rolling Stone & The Frustrating Search for Truth
Don’t believe everything you read… Or to put it more bluntly, if Rolling Stone can get it wrong, what makes you so sure what’s on Fox News is correct? In the information age, we’ve got plenty of gossip, a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Bob Lefsetz, Culture Club, Judith Miller, MTV, New York Times, Patty Heasrt, Rolling Stone, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Steve Jobs
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Lefsetz: Indiana No Kent State
Aren’t we supposed to hate corporations? But Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote a piece in the Washington Post and the governor blinked, it was techies and WALMART that stopped Indiana in its tracks. Isn’t this what musicians used to do? … Continue reading
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Tagged Alicia Keys, Apple Store, Bob Lefsetz, Led Zeppelin, Tim Cook
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