Drops of Jupiter running down my leg...
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
did he spell it with all-caps like TRAIN?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Is that real Bob Lefsetz or Fake Bob Lefsetz?
― how's life, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Real, I get the emails. it's not on his website yet. His website has stuff like:
The Allman Brothers were our EDM.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
i saw Train as an opening act right after their first album came out and they played "Ramble On," they seemed like they had just transitioned from being a very professional cover band
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
Aerosmith were our Skrillex
― ۩, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
there was supposed to be a Lefsetz/Amanda Palmer meeting of the minds at some event recently, didn't hear anything about it after the fact, was it covered in the Palmer thread?
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
should be a double bill also featuring a reformed The Who fronted by the lead singer of Vertical Horizon
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
There was a Lefsetz email or 2 on his meeting Amanda Palmer:
Our concierge was Jake Gold, T.O. man about town. He’s the one who picked this Greek restaurant by the beach. Didn’t know there was a beach in Toronto? Many don’t. Let’s just call it “the Lake.”
And Amanda Palmer. She’s writing a book. It was fascinating to hear how her TED talk led to so many opportunities. If you’re not afraid to go through one door, many more will open thereafter. Assuming you can get that first door to open, Amanda is a fifteen year overnight success.
More from his letter to Jimmy Page about Train one:
And the truth is everybody would be disappointed in a Zeppelin reunion, everybody would compare it to what once was. This... Would be a whole new thing, you'd get the benefit of the doubt, there would be love instead of negativity.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
hahahaha omg, there would be love instead of negativity
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
doesn't anybody remember tae-bo?
― how's life, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
He's right, though. Who could forget how the Firm completely changed the face of popular music?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE
― ۩, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
I don’t hear anybody talking about the printers, the people whose business was wiped out by desktop publishing. And now, HP itself is in trouble, its cash cow printer business has stalled. Bitch all you want about overpriced cartridges, the truth is almost no one prints anymore. When last did you?
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2014/06/09/david-carrs-article/
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 13:06 (nine years ago) link
When last did you?
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 13:14 (nine years ago) link
"When last did you?! When last did you?!"
http://media.steampowered.com/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/44/44e5a05c626294d361023365fe4bb48d1e1d2a6a_full.jpg
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
Print this morning did I
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
Show me an album that should be heard by millions that has languished in the marketplace and I’ll show you a liar, you, who are completely full of shit.
But tech is more interesting than music. Yup, there I said it. Bring us a new Beatles, a new Bob Dylan, and we’ll all pay attention.
And everybody knows “Yellow Submarine,” but most people don’t know any Beyonce songs and play them once and they never need to hear it again.
But have people stopped eating, stopped going to the bathroom, stopped having sex?
Get over yourself.
Enter the twenty first century.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
People in this town? We listen to a Beyoncé song once and then forget about it. A man who listens a second time? That is not a man, my friend.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/9grk3.jpg
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
lol
of course this fucking geezer would go off on a rant about printer cartridge prices
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
You may decry Boston and Journey, but they put out professional records which satiate even more now as a result of the dreck that dominates today's airwaves.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 June 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
The soul of an investment banker.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 June 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
Steve Perry At The Orpheum
It was wasted on the Eels’ audience.
― did click through tho on the money (Eazy), Thursday, 12 June 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
Lmao
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 June 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Uber is kind of like the Beatles
And what did Uber do best…STICK IT TO THE MAN!
Who’s sticking it to the man in music?
I’d opine that music IS THE MAN!
― Position Position, Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
who among us is bob lefsetzest?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
http://37.media.tumblr.com/fd9bcf175118fe5b60dac9c0e04764ce/tumblr_mjart3dSfz1qzhoqfo1_500.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
But that was back when music ruled the world. When it was seen as the preeminent art form. Before nitwits like Iggy Azalea ruled and a big hit song was entitled “Wiggle,” back when there were two avenues, the mainstream and the underground, and the true music fans were members of the underground, forget all those pop charts, no one listened to hit radio back then, we all smoked dope, grew our hair and dedicated ourselves to the slow-talking deejays on FM.
Hit radio sucks today, but it's not like in the 60s, man, when hit radio sucked.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
from the excerpts people are posting it feels like his newsletters are being "written" by an AI program called CrankyBoomerBot
― maura, Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
(i unsubbed a while back and man my inbox/sanity are all the better for it)
― maura, Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
It's not like it's the first song named Wiggle though!
― how's life, Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Put your money where your mouth is Bob, grow your hair again
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Thursday, 12 June 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
I actually love his assertion that no one uses printers anymore, and that each of us would have to really think to remember the last time we did.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 12 June 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
When last did I? Yesterday did I print!
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 June 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
The printer thing is hilarious because it's more an indication that big Lef hasn't had an actual job in a long time
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 June 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah, it also felt like older fellow proving he was up on things. "No one prints anymore, they just download the newspaper to their Google glasses!"
― intheblanks, Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:32 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
honestly don't know if this is real lefsetz or parody
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 14 June 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
real.
And I'm not complaining. Well, maybe I am. What I'm saying is I can't feed back, can't have intellectual discussion, because if I respond just once, I'm going to be the recipient of e-mail for YEARS!
And I know so many of you are reasonable. But I want to give you the perspective from where I sit. To know that you are not alone. That we live in an incomprehensible world where the dumb reign and the smart check out.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 June 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Can totally see this dude going down in a government standoff, felled behind a barricade built out of boxes of unsold Seven Mary Three albums.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 June 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
[Ezra] Klein has a new perspective on the news. That it’s being covered like a sport, with daily winners and losers, and if you’re not paying attention, you’re left out. Klein says he’s into stories that live on the web, that have life after their initial posting, kind of like the page on the secret menu at In-N-Out, which got little traction at first, but over the years has gotten tons.(Hey, there’s a music analogy there! Your record may be number one for a week, but have the shelf life of milk, listen to Beyonce’s super-duper video album recently?) So Klein’s new site has explanatory stories, for those who don’t follow the news with a passion, like the above one on Iraq. I recommend scanning at least the headlines, because you’ll finally understand what’s happening.
(Hey, there’s a music analogy there! Your record may be number one for a week, but have the shelf life of milk, listen to Beyonce’s super-duper video album recently?) So Klein’s new site has explanatory stories, for those who don’t follow the news with a passion, like the above one on Iraq. I recommend scanning at least the headlines, because you’ll finally understand what’s happening.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 June 2014 09:24 (nine years ago) link
I recommend scanning at least the headlines, because you’ll finally understand what’s happening.
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 15 June 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
listen to Beyonce’s super-duper video album recently?
I am literally listening to it right now while using my printer.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
the future of music is "what is a solange"
― katherine, Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Tarfumes, get with the times! All the cool hip young ppl are listening to Journey in Spotify and scanning Ezra Klein headlines
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
This all so tragically pathetic and then you still have to factor in the fact that Lefsetz pops the collars on his Polo shirts
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
The guys were not only topless, but bottomless. You could see their wee-wees only inches away. And being a guy, I’m icked out by the visuals, but I’m always comparing and contrasting, wondering how I measure up. And I must say, for all the limp dicks, I did see some tiny units, that would make Howard Stern feel like a man, and unlike George on “Seinfeld,” on this hot nearly-summer day they couldn’t claim shrinkage.And then came the women. Like I said, at first I thought it was a gay thing, men letting their freak flags fly.And the first women weren’t topless. They had halter tops.And then I saw breasts.Tiny perky ones. Lumpy ones. Huge ones on skinny girls. It was a cornucopia of tits.And being the red-blooded male I am, I surf my share of porn, I’ve seen pictures, it’s not like the sixties and seventies, the days of stag films and adult book shops. All you’ve got to do is Google.But this was different. Because these were living, breathing women. Real people. Who chose to let it all hang out.And I’m getting the sense that Felice wants to move on. But I can’t really let this opportunity pass. It’s like keeping a kid from candy. I wasn’t gonna cry if pulled away, but I was going to be disappointed.
And then came the women. Like I said, at first I thought it was a gay thing, men letting their freak flags fly.
And the first women weren’t topless. They had halter tops.
And then I saw breasts.
Tiny perky ones. Lumpy ones. Huge ones on skinny girls. It was a cornucopia of tits.
And being the red-blooded male I am, I surf my share of porn, I’ve seen pictures, it’s not like the sixties and seventies, the days of stag films and adult book shops. All you’ve got to do is Google.
But this was different. Because these were living, breathing women. Real people. Who chose to let it all hang out.
And I’m getting the sense that Felice wants to move on. But I can’t really let this opportunity pass. It’s like keeping a kid from candy. I wasn’t gonna cry if pulled away, but I was going to be disappointed.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
omg
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
someone get lefsetz a doctor
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link