who is Bob Lefsetz?

Bupkes!

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.

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!

lefsetz on a recent stones concert is a+

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.

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

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

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

or are they even older?

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

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.

Americana I meant

He was a music biz attorney himself

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

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

my god he's bony now! Bony!

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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!

friends with Angelina Jolie!!!!!!!

http://www.examiner.com/article/angelina-jolie-former-bodyguard-claims-she-has-an-imaginary-friend-named-lefsetz?cid=taboola_inbound

did I never drop my Lefsetz is Vizzini science itt?

― Fred by Durst (The Reverend), Thursday, May 2, 2013 11:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

?

― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 3, 2013 6:42 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

please do

― curmudgeon, Friday, May 3, 2013 7:05 AM Bookmark

Vizzini from The Princess Bride! He looks like Vizzini and you can read all of his posts in #vizzinivoice and they work perfectly.

lol

"At first, Lefsetz was a dog, then turned into a cat, then into an elephant, then an alien, and now is a full-blooded imaginary human."

Bob Lefsetz came to Minneapolis!!! I didn't see him...but he came here...and learned....something.....about....something i guess.

Minneapolis

It’s cold here!

I could feel it in the gap between the jetway and the plane, the blast of not quite frigid air that told me I was not in California anymore.

What’s interesting about the new connected world is that you can live anywhere. Once upon a time, if you weren’t in L.A. or New York you were off the grid. The outskirts were a good place to raise children, but chances were you were never going to be anything more than a big fish in a small pond.

But those days are history. The Internet works everywhere. As does cable TV. You can be hip anywhere. As well as completely out of it in the metropolis. With the onslaught of information chances are some kid in his basement in the midwest is much more savvy than you are on the coast. Which is why Spotify can be started in Stockholm, where the broadband speeds dwarfed those in the United States. That’s what we all desire these days, a fast connection. That’s why you must upgrade from your iPhone 4 or 4s to a 5, for the LTE. It’s like surfing at home. Well, a U.S. home.

And there are rich people everywhere. We’re driving along the banks of the Mississippi (I know how to spell it because of the song!) and on the St. Paul side are manses so big and beautiful, that you contemplate moving.

Not that Minneapolis was ever backward. It was always hip.

But always cold.

But the one thing they don’t tell you is that just as cold as it is in the winter, that’s how hot it is in the summer!

And since the advent of global warming, it’s not as cold as it used to be, but everything’s relative.

And where did I learn about Minnesota?

College! Going to school with Dodd Cosgrove, whose father ran Jolly Green Giant, and the kids from Wayzata, they taught me how to pronounce it!

And “The Heartbreak Kid.” Forget the remake, the initial Charles Grodin flick is incredible. The final scene is priceless, when he’s in Minnesota, giving his spiel to the blue bloods, this Jewish sporting goods retailer… But the highlight is the beach scene, where Grodin lays his towel down amidst endless sand and suddenly feels a shadow… And he looks up and it’s Cybill Shepherd saying “You’re lying in my spot!” That’s what all males are looking for, a female to say we’re lying in their spot. For all the machismo, most men are weak. If you’re waiting for the man to move first, you’re gonna wait a very long time, if not forever. Want a date with a guy? CALL HIM!

Or text him or e-mail him or…

Wendy, that’s my sister, is a Facebook addict. I asked how the population was over there. She said in the last year so many have dropped out. I’m about done with Twitter, because I post and get no reaction, it’s too frustrating. As for Facebook, I only play with a fake name, looking up those I used to know.

And the colors! We don’t get them in Los Angeles. Even Colorado is not the same thing. But Minneapolis is like the east coast, and I’ve hit it perfectly, at its peak, when the trees are blazing and the leaves are still on.

And we’re driving across the bridge and Wendy laments that winter is coming. How does she know? The clouds! They’re flat, not puffy. The long tunnel is beginning.

And we drove under the new Guthrie, with its cantilever over the roadway.

And we saw the bridge that fell… In a cannot do nation, it was inspiring to see the replacement. It’s lit up at night. Thoroughfare as celebration. And there’s a memorial to the fallen. I got out and looked at the blue columns, with a short bio for each of the deceased.

And I know David Byrne is railing about the Internet. And Thom Yorke has doubled down on his hatred of Spotify. And track sales are dropping, because of YouTube streaming, if nothing else. And once upon a time we bought records, then tapes, then CDs, then MP3s and now…everything is available at our fingertips. It used to be important to get an iPhone, now a Samsung Galaxy is good enough. The tech comes and goes.

But the people, the culture, the society, remain.

They know that in Minneapolis.

man that's really something

it really is something that you wrote there, bob

we know that in minneapolis

we do

That’s what all males are looking for, a female to say we’re lying in their spot.

The fall foliage does look really good right now, I think cuz we had a dry summer? Is that how it works?

Internet seems to still be working as well.

this literally might be the most incoherent thing i've ever read

I’m about done with Twitter

just a guy thinking bout minneapolis...

I can't believe he didn't mention Prince, who is apparently an artist of some note from this area who doesn't get a lot of press

ever heard the replacements man? they wrote songs from the heart...songs about regular guys down and out in a dive bar, scrappin it out in the midwest, not about fancy parties with supermodels in los angeles

if you haven't i recommend you start with "Gary Got a Boner"

did Dodd Cosgrove play keys in Lipps Inc or do i have that wrong

from his wiki - good poll potential:

In 2007, Lefsetz and Kid Rock engaged in an email feud but have since reconciled. [5][6][7]

In 2009, Lefsetz and Kiss bassist Gene Simmons exchanged insults via e-mail and in person at the Canadian Music Week conference, and they debated officially at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto.[8] [9]

In 2010, Taylor Swift wrote the song Mean, reputedly in response to Lefsetz's accusation after her 2010 Grammy performance that she uses Auto-Tune. [10]

In 2013, Lesfetz visited Minneapolis.

In 2014, Lefsetz became done with Twitter (projected).

so how DO you pronounce Wayzata?

In 2028, Lefstez stood on a street corner yelling that President-Elect Swift once wrote a song about him (projected).

no wonder the record industry loves lefsetz if he keeps getting into fights with artists that are exceptionally good at playing the record industry

he stands for all the davids who dare to face the royalty-seeking goliaths

sleeve: why-ZET-uh