who is Bob Lefsetz?

not the toppermost!

but way damn up there!

And we scored this interview a zero. Maybe a two on an absolute scale.

And the American way is the true believer rugged individual, who goes off into the wilderness to make something of themselves, not beholden to usual strictures, an inspiration for the rest of us.

paging horatio alger

dying @ maybe a two on an absolute scale

guess there's still a possibility that megyn kelly's attractiveness on an absolute scale is in fact the toppermost

the absolute toppermost!

she's a melody to a symphony by strauss

is that an absolute melody or just a regular one?

neil strauss?

henceforth rating albums on a scale from zero to two on an absolute scale. the beatles are two, taylor swift is one, everybody else is zero

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People in the UK are pissed off with having
Some eurocrats who are anonymous and dictating the future of the U.K.
This doesn't happen in the states
So I would say you don't really understand the British frustration
It's nothing like the changes in the music biz.
I won't go in about it because that's just how it is Period.

Cheers
Paul Hardcastle

The fuck...I hope that is real

It is -- Lefsetz Mailbag!

I'd like some of that Hillary speech money.

Used to be about the music. Used to be a great track was known by everybody. Used to be your image was secondary to your tunes.

Not anymore!

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Jackie-Chan-WTF.jpg

crazy newfangled MTV videos ruined everything IMO

Have you heard? Have you heard? Trump is gonna beat Hillary because of Twitter - Bob Lefsetz

We haven't had that kind of sad! here since 1969...

Do you know who Travis Scott is?

I don't. And I'm proud of it.

lef otm

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2016/09/05/bad-company-l-county-fair/

This is so over the top...Here are some excerpts

This should have been bad. Seventies act far beyond its years playing to a multitude that didn’t care in a faraway land where no discerning eyes are present. But that wasn’t the case, this show was FANTASTIC! INCREDIBLE! ASTOUNDING! THE BEST OF THE YEAR!

In this case in far-off Pomona, a sea of people you see nowhere else, bad bodies, various ethnicities, only an hour from L.A. but in mind-set and visuals as far away as Iowa or Mississippi.

....I’M TINGLING AS I WRITE THIS! I IMMEDIATELY JUMPED TO MY FEET AND THRUST MY ARM IN THE AIR! It was like it was still the seventies and music was the most important medium in the world and fully worth living for. This was a show where you didn’t pull out your cell phone unless it was to take a photo, you didn’t want to take your eyes off the band, you felt when they left the stage you might not get another chance.

And it wasn’t just me. The middle-aged women next to me were twisting and turning their bodies, singing every word at the top of their lungs. The Latino men in front of me were doing the same thing. The fat white guy to the right, he was getting more exercise than he probably got in a month. The assembled multitude was gyrating like rock music was the most important thing in the world, the elixir of life, they were taking it all in AND GIVING IT ALL BACK!.... They get no love. The punksters and hipsters at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame pooh-pooh them, lauding fraudsters like Patti Smith and Joan Jett when it’s groups like this that are the heart of rock and roll. And I’ve been to see Kiss, but the mania for Bad Company was bigger. And I love the guys in Rush, but this audience was half women, and they weren’t dragged by their boyfriends, THEY NEEDED TO BE THERE!

It’s almost like they don’t exist. No one ever talks about Bad Company. But here they are, in plain sight, and they’re LEGENDS!

so basically he took a story from a right-wing website about a trump rally and substituted the name "bad company" for "trump," yes?

now we're talking about mick ralphs here a legend in his own right

Trump rally wouldn't have Latino men at it. Lefsetz always takes shots at "bad bodies" and a "fat white guy" without ever offering any self-deprecating comments about his own appearance.

The punksters and hipsters at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Ha

fuckin' mott the hoople and bad company? there you have it.

Ralphs wasn't there alas. He's been replaced though they use his songs

You see there were TWO lead guitarists. Howard Leese of Heart and Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes. And not only did they riff off each other, they played in unison… We went there to relive what once was and we didn’t know they were gonna reinvent it and push the envelope into the future.

i saw bad co. a few years ago at jones beach, on one of those rare tours where mick ralphs joined them. (spied ian hunter heading toward the backstage area, but alas no on-stage appearance.) they were...really good! dude can sing. i don't remember any tingling or whatnot, but i don't regret going.

i also remember some brooklyn street fair where simon kirke sat in with a local cover band for a few songs. even he makes a big difference!

P.P.P.S And if you still think Luke Bryan is just a pretty boy who keeps his catch in his Yeti... Check the emotion, the boy meets girl and tries to keep her story of "Play It Again," my favorite track of the decade,

There's "Frampton Comes Alive," the legendary seller.

"Live At Leeds," considered to be the best, even though I think it suffers for lack of crowd noise.

And the unheralded "Five Man Acoustical Jam," if you don't know this Tesla live set you're in for a treat, then again, you're probably best off knowing their material.

And then there's "Joe Dirt Car," the BoDeans' 1995 double CD package.

five man acoustical jam and the cover of "signs" was Tesla's second hit after "love song"!!!!! fuck u lef!!!! it's very heralded as far as unplugged Tesla ablums go

"signs" was huge iirc. my brother and i heralded that song so hard in 1990.

]I was listening to a Kenny Aronoff podcast.

Lefsetz never change

upper mississippi mercilessly otm

grade - A
Five Man Acoustical Jam
Genre: Rock; Producer (group): Geffen
Posted December 7 1990 — 12:00 AM EST

Unlike most hard-rock groups, Tesla has never used hair-sprayed glamour or bombastic effects as a crutch. So dropping the amps seems like the most natural thing in the world for these five down-home boys from Sacramento. Five Man Acoustical Jam, recorded live in a Philadelphia club, is a simple pleasure, down to the occasional glitches and unaffected goofing off. And guess what? Tesla tunes like the smoky ”Heaven’s Trail” stand up to this stripped-down approach as well as covers such as the Rolling Stones’ ”Mother’s Little Helper” do. And the intimate feel holds fast through fiery numbers such as ”Gettin’ Better.” Tesla is a hard-rock band that even grown-ups will love.

revive made me reread the you could see their wee-wees post; always a trip

i love tesla

That's right, while you were listening to Herman's Hermits Bob Dylan was revolutionizing songwriting

i was so thrown off by his offtm tesla hot take that i ignored this stupid opinion:

"Live At Leeds," considered to be the best, even though I think it suffers for lack of crowd noise.

def needed more fake ass studio crowd noise! good one!

LOL he was on the howard stern wrap up show today and said the song of the 21st century so far is "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley

the *best song

Ehh, he's had far worse opinions.

We haven't had that spirit here since 2006...

So, we're hanging, it's me, Lisa, Michael McDonald and Jimmy Kimmel. And Michael got distracted and there was a moment of silence so I told Jimmy I was going to do his buddy's radio show the next morning, he and Howard are best friends. And Jimmy looked at me quizzically and said "They can do that?" And I told him they'd sent me a suitcase and you hooked it up to the internet and Jimmy said...ARE YOU A MEMBER OF THE WACK PACK?

And then Michael re-entered the conversation.

And I'm standing there thinking Jimmy doesn't understand, he thinks I'm some oddball and I must set the record straight.

So when a break in the conversation occurred, I told Jimmy I was gonna be on because I wrote this newsletter that Howard gets.

And Jimmy leans back, looks me in the eye and says...YOU'RE BOB LEFSETZ! HOWARD TALKS ABOUT YOU ALL THE TIME!

talks about recruiting him for the wack pack

lol men

Hey Garth, do you still use a flip-phone?

Ever been in a Tesla?