who is Bob Lefsetz?

there are no visible ads on his site - it's a wordpress page. the only link is to mozilla.org - I don't see any ad money? could be wrong

I think he gets used as a consultant to labels because of his amazing depth of knowledge

I guess maybe? mystifying to me to imagine labels hiring consultants in 2014

tremendous profile/interview here for fellow obsessives

Do you write in a stream of consciousness?
I view it as Jackson Pollock action painting. I get inspired and I throw it all down. My basic policy is that I re-read everything twice before I sent it. I clean up (spelling) mistakes, wrong tenses, lack of clarity but I do not change the content. I realized after doing this so long that if I change anything I fuck it up.

Occasionally, if I am in a rush or if I get inspired or a story is hot, I will only reread it once. Then there's always some minor thing, like a wrong tense, that makes me crazy.

god he's amazing

Maybe there’s more, how the hell would I know.

I had just barely stopping giggling about that one and now I'm back on it, it's just incredible

Somehow Patti Smith fits their criteria (for R&R Hall of Fame). She just wasn't a great musical act. Her biggest track was written by Bruce Springsteen.

that's "with" Bruce Springsteen, Mr. Smarts

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. Maybe there's more, how the hell would I know.

THE END

have we discussed his live debate w gene simmons

full thing with regular annoying audio dropouts here

the dumb thing is that he's arguing with gene simmons, because if any band could be seen as the pioneer of a band as a brand - merchandising, films, comics, big live tours etc - it was kiss

You could have just gone full-stop after

the dumb thing is that he's arguing with gene simmons

lol ok fair enough

upper miss are we friends on fb I lose track of people's names

Yep!

Since Robert Plant does not want to tour with Led Zep, Lefsetz wants them to tour with the singer from Train

^ the greatest sentence I have ever read in my life

lesfetz otm

Drops of Jupiter running down my leg...

did he spell it with all-caps like TRAIN?

Is that real Bob Lefsetz or Fake Bob Lefsetz?

Real, I get the emails. it's not on his website yet. His website has stuff like:

The Allman Brothers were our EDM.

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

Aerosmith were our Skrillex

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?

should be a double bill also featuring a reformed The Who fronted by the lead singer of Vertical Horizon

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.

hahahaha omg, there would be love instead of negativity

doesn't anybody remember tae-bo?

He's right, though. Who could forget how the Firm completely changed the face of popular music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

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/

When last did you?

"When last did you?! When last did you?!"

http://media.steampowered.com/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/44/44e5a05c626294d361023365fe4bb48d1e1d2a6a_full.jpg

Print this morning did I

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.

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.

https://i.imgflip.com/9grk3.jpg

lol

of course this fucking geezer would go off on a rant about printer cartridge prices

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.

The soul of an investment banker.

Steve Perry At The Orpheum

It was wasted on the Eels’ audience.

Lmao

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!

who among us is bob lefsetzest?

http://37.media.tumblr.com/fd9bcf175118fe5b60dac9c0e04764ce/tumblr_mjart3dSfz1qzhoqfo1_500.jpg

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.

from the excerpts people are posting it feels like his newsletters are being "written" by an AI program called CrankyBoomerBot

(i unsubbed a while back and man my inbox/sanity are all the better for it)

It's not like it's the first song named Wiggle though!