who is Bob Lefsetz?

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?

Wayne's World 3: The Unravelling

Part of his Keith Urban at Staples Center review
When did concerts become tribal rites?

It was not like this back in the sixties and seventies, when classic rock ruled. There was a gulf between performer and audience, it was a show, now it's an EXPERIENCE!

...This was not a nitwit television contestant. It became rapidly evident that this dude could PLAY! Just like we watched "Ed Sullivan" and picked up axes a younger generation is being infected by the show and doing the same thing, Nashville's ridden with structural problems but the ability to play is not one of them, NashVegas is a hotbed of musicianship, and to be in the presence of this man-made sound is elating!

I feel like he once wrote that Woodstock and 60s concerts were tribal experiences and current ones were not...

the tribe of lefsetz

EXPERIENCE!

PLAY!

Ignore the sales chart. That's where hard core fans and looky-loos go to participate, the store, the action is now in streaming, where we can see right away if anybody is listening. AND THEY'RE NOT!

P.P.P.S. My favorite cut on the album is “Sinner’s Prayer,” track 8, which barely breaks a million in cume.

P.P.P.S. My favorite cut on the album is “Sinner’s Prayer,” track 8, which barely breaks a million in cume.

P.P.P.S. My favorite cut on the album is “Sinner’s Prayer,” track 8, which barely breaks a million in cume.

P.P.P.S. My favorite cut on the album is “Sinner’s Prayer,” track 8, which barely breaks a million in cume.

cumey hinder

you make a dead man cume

funny how some oldsters can still reach the brass ring

Trump went to the finest school, Wharton, and it seems he only got juiced in it.

He never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for him. He stiffed contractors. Didn't look out for the little people. Is it any wonder that those on stage have turned the tables?

Nobody ever taught Mike Pence how to live out in the street and now he's gonna have to get used to it!

You know, there aren't many days when I wish I was back in, say, the 1890s, with rampant death, even more open bigotry and hatefulness and general obnoxiousness running things, but when I consider it would mean I could avoid the pontificating of Lefsetz on the current scene, it almost seems like a fair exchange.

I came from the sixties. When money was secondary to identity. when if you didn’t stand for something you stood for nothing at all.

he is the dumbest man alive

on Kanye:

"I know, I know, we're supposed to have sympathy for the mentally ill. But we're also supposed to recognize psychiatric problems and steer the person to treatment, we did not do that, we stood by idly as this inane insane man whipsawed through our media until he blew himself up.

I, for one, have little sympathy.

I could commit heresy and say he's just not that talented."

Lef OTM, but for the wrong reason.

Lefsetz blogs the apocalypse.

Most people don't know Taylor Swift's music.

Most people have never heard of Drake.

Most people don't read the "New York Times."

AND MOST PEOPLE DON'T CARE!

In a world where even the NFL’s ratings are taking a hit, where vaunted TV shows don’t crack double digit millions in viewers, the truth is attention is scattered and you just can’t gain it.

Now you can rebel against this, to no effect. This is what the oldster musicians have been doing for a decade and a half. Their main message is who let the dogs out?

who, indeed, let the dogs out?

we all let the dogs out

......and the dogs are us.

you really have to marvel at his ability to write a sentence like this:

Did Jackson Pollock not drip because the people couldn’t handle it?

like literally what the fuck does this mean?

ah yes, donald trump's campaign, that noted bastion of non-fakery

"Then she and her team shot themselves in the foot by refusing to put “25” on streaming services and making an album that just wasn’t good enough."

this is some top quality hedging

https://s21.postimg.org/pw4jq9zlj/dogs_wall.jpg

"Then she and her team shot themselves in the foot by refusing to put “25” on streaming services and making an album that just wasn’t good enough."

this is some top quality hedging

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 1:55 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not an expert but taylor swift is still really, really popular and successful right?

yeah

and album sales-wise, Adele's "25" outsold it?

idk, I guess being a top selling musical artist internationally isn't enough because you're doing it wrong and didn't sell as many copies as Bob imagines you're supposed to

outsold Taylor Swift's last album, I mean

who knows who streamed more? not me. probably not Adele, because she didn't let people stream her album. Taylor Swift let people stream her album, but maybe the wrong people?

sorry my post was confusing he has grudges against both for different (or the same?) reasons, but anyway yes one thing that's pretty clear is the adele and taylor swift have really mismanaged their careers as evidenced by their quick fall into having to busk in the subway for spare change

that'd at least carry some credibility. instead, they're up there making money the wrong way. the wrong money.

"We used to stop and listen to subway buskers, now we're too busy looking at pdfs on our Blackberries to even look up...wanna be a busker? good luck, because there's a better and more talented busker and every stop -- and they aren't looking for spare change - they want exposure, just like everyone else. The music business used to be about LISTEN TO THIS now its about LOOK AT ME and today's listeners have more things to look at then ever"

it just needs to be made great again

maybe trump will strip the citizenship of artists who don't put their music on spotify.

why bother? they're punishing themselves far worse than we ever could

the good old days, when 100s of millions of viewers would tune into Alternative Nation