who is Bob Lefsetz?

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People playing instruments that you can also masturbate to?

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link

What's Marah up to these days?

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link

chillin' in philly

downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

Oh shut up with your cliches:

And you know what's great about Bourbon Street? The people! They haven't got ugly, lumpy, imperfect people in Los Angeles, they're stopped at the border, like in "The Grapes Of Wrath." But here in Louisiana I came in contact with the real America, one that descends to the southern tip of our country to let loose, because while those on the coast are pursuing their career dreams, those in the middle know it's about having fun, and that's what you do in New Orleans, party.

curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link

Sub "Sixth Street", "Texas", and "Austin" in the appropriate places and he probably published the same thing about SxSW.

Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 May 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link

Is Lefsetz allowed in any cities by that criteria

mh, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:54 (ten years ago) link

They haven't got ugly, lumpy, imperfect people in Los Angeles, they're stopped at the border

http://www.internationalmusicsummit.com/img/speakers/picture/detail/bob_lefsetz-300x300-18.jpg

THIZZ VAN LEER @_@ (lpz), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link

did I never drop my Lefsetz is Vizzini science itt?

Fred by Durst (The Reverend), Friday, 3 May 2013 06:47 (ten years ago) link

?

jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 May 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link

please do

curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link

getting taken by bourbon street in 2013, yeah...

goole, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link

His post also described his love for some lame jamband he saw at Jazzfest.

curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link

it's so weird when ppl say stuff like that i wonder if they've ever been to L.A., there are all kinds of normal looking people in los angeles

jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link

Leftsetz lives in L.A. but apparently never looks around or in the mirror

curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link

Lesfetz spends all of his time poolside at the Chateau Marmont iirc

tylerw, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link

Lefsetz is the drummer for Gay Dad.

m0stlyClean, Friday, 3 May 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link

Oh hold on... His latest email wasn't even thinly veiled racist diatribe. Let the games commence...

Oblique Strategies, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link

i saw this one recently and i was just awestruck by how dumb this guy is

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/05/10/are-foodies-quietly-killing-rock-and-roll/

jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link

lol

he is the brains of the music industry, of this I am sure

tweeship journey to 77 (mh), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link

it was funny cuz it was someone on twitter who was like "Great stuff from Lefsetz as usual" and I just glanced and assumed it was an ILXor being snarky so I tweeted back "lol" but I think they were being serious :/

jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link

even better imo

tweeship journey to 77 (mh), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link

"Lefsetz daft punk"
About 47,100 results (0.34 seconds)

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link

Howard Stern always goes on and on and on about this dude.

errant flynn, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 05:16 (ten years ago) link

Was “Gangnam Style” a fake?

You’ll think so after reading this article. If nothing else, you’ll learn how to rig the game. That’s what today’s media manipulators do, make you think you’re living in your own self-created world when the truth is you lived in a walled Disneyland, where your odds of building a ride are bupkes.

how's life, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 09:07 (ten years ago) link

Bupkes!

Position Position, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link

His instant pronouncements make me wanna do a SNL "really"

And I realized everybody was smoking because I saw them out last night in Piccadilly Circus. I'm used to L.A., where there is no nightlife, where everything interesting is happening at home, and you're not invited. But there's definitely a scene in London, and it's not only there.

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link

Have you seen “Book Of Mormon”? There’s a tribal chief with a name so OUT THERE, so OFFENSIVE, so SWEAR WORD, that I cannot use it in this e-mail, or you won’t get it.

Yup, I love to use the F-word. But I can’t. Because too many of you work for uptight corporations with spam filters that won’t let that word through. Yup, you think you’re so hip, that you’re not like your parents, that you’re open-minded and accepting. But the truth is so many are still on the treadmill of life, working for the man, and we depend upon artists to show us the light, to question convention, to stretch our minds, to show us the POSSIBILITIES!

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link

lefsetz on a recent stones concert is a+

reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link

It’s weird, because as buzzed as the audience was before the show, during it they were relatively sedate, there were no peaks, until Lisa Fischer sang Merry Clayton’s part.

War, CHILDREN!

Lisa’s the star of “Twenty Feet From Stardom” and she’s the star of the first half of the Stones show too. She misses not a note, her voice is so powerful, she exudes the sex in rock and roll that Mick Jagger can’t, since he’s dieted down to nothing, you can almost see his bones. What a sentence that must be, being unable to eat so you can fulfill the image of your audience, which has aged itself.

Hell, Lisa was not svelte, but if you think sex is about appearances, you’ve never done it. It’s about a spirit inside. And Lisa evidenced hers.

how's life, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link

this guy is just so unbelievably dumb i think i'm getting kind of obsessed w/him

unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link

yeah who the hell isn't hate-reading him at this point

da croupier, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link

is his primary reader-base just bitter past-prime industry folk who miss the 90s?

da croupier, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link

or are they even older?

da croupier, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link

feel like it's mostly business mag readers who don't know much abt music (industry)

goole, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link

or miss the late '60s I would say. But he's got Kid Rock emailing him and lots of American music performers and supporters emailing him and other industry biz insiders. There was a big Washington Post profile of him awhile back that got into describing his readership a bit, I recall.

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link

Americana I meant

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link

He was a music biz attorney himself

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link

why can't mick jagger embrace his inner curviness?!!

tylerw, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link

yeah i miss the voluptuous, busty mick jagger of the 1960s

unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link

my god he's bony now! Bony!

da croupier, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link

he's like a skeleton oh my god we're all going to die someday

tylerw, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link

the most LOL thing about the whole stones thing is that it's like a backup singer's big boobs gave him a boner and he turns it into some PROFOUND POINT ABOUT LIFE, it's that lefsetz magic maaaan

unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link

he's just someone's mean parody of a boomer

the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link

i saw this one recently and i was just awestruck by how dumb this guy is

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/05/10/are-foodies-quietly-killing-rock-and-roll/

― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:54 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

late to this one, but

There are no restaurant business schools that I’m aware of.

that is probably because you are as dumb as a bag of rocks, bob.

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link

Going to the show is expensive. But food has gone downmarket. You can eat gourmet at a food truck for under ten bucks. Try seeing a music star live for that price.

I guess 'star' is the operative word in there but ... lol.

There is eating at a food truck and then there is going to Le Bernardin. There is going to a dive bar and then there is going to a big stadium show.

dmr, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link

oh man that whole thing is amazing.

In other words, as Bob Dylan sang, “He not busy being born is busy dying.” Quote me some lyrics from today’s artists.

Point proven.

dmr, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link

The LEF is tweeting from Ibiza!!!!

Bob Lefsetz ‏@Lefsetz 24 May

Listening to Sven Vath. Great insight and honesty. English not his first language, but he expresses better than most Americans. #imsibiza

errant flynn, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link

There's nothing that I love more than a fat old 60 something dude from LA regurgitating the same hackneyed wonder about Ibiza that my fucked up student friends did 20 years ago.
Talk about being on the ball...

Sven Vath! Richie Hawtin! All night parties! The Beach! E!

Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 05:34 (ten years ago) link

four months pass...

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