who is Bob Lefsetz?

apropos of nothing, but somewhere down the line I got Bob Lefsetz and Chris Crawford mixed up in my mind and the mental results are horrifying

Lefsetz really went all out with the research on this one:

Do I know enough about Garbage? I bought the first album, was caught up the mania, but Shirley Manson was a cool ice queen, right?

WRONG!

She’s sassy and opinionated and smart…

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2018/04/10/shirley-manson-this-weeks-podcast/

yeah I'd say he knows about garbage

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a6/dd/d2/a6ddd23216a7266e3efcd387af0b84d4.jpg

I am the only one fucked up about this?

bob, and only bob, and no one else, has thoughts on avicii.

also, it's oman's fault.

I'm thinking it's drugs, it's always drugs, especially when it comes out of the blue. Sure, Avicii spoke of health problems before, they caused him to retire from the road, but what was he doing in Oman anyway.

So it’s kinda like school shootings. Everyone laments the deceased’s passing, talks about what a wonderful person they were, how great their music was, and then it’s business as usual.

Meanwhile, what kind of outlaw ties up with corporations, doing sponsorships? If it’s about image, your credibility is immediately shot.

Donald Glover was on "Community," is in the second season of his own highly-lauded series "Atlanta" and has one of the longest running hits on the chart with "Redbone," a cut from his THIRD Glassnote album and still...

Most people had no idea who he was.

Until now.

https://i.imgflip.com/29wogl.jpg

lol

https://i.imgflip.com/29wogl.jpg

i'm going to take the fact "no idea who he was" isn't in all-caps as some kind of major lefsetzian breakthrough.

You don't want to be second best, you don't want to be a booty call, you want to be PRIMARY, but even though you say no, that does not mean you still don't hurt, still don't desire, still don't fantasize.

OKLefsetz

Does he really think that Matador had nothing to do with one of their artists getting a banner on Spotify?

Where does the new Dave Matthews Band get traction?

Wanting to make a Tinder profile with Lefs photo and that quote ^^

Wait a minute, is this rock? Made by a woman? Why isn’t the world all over this?

lol

Or you could be the inane publishing industry, which killed e-books so it could maintain its old numbers. Amazon wanted to push the industry into the future, GROW the business, with all titles under ten bucks. But NO! (Where is John Belushi when you need him?) Now e-books cost as much as, and sometimes even MORE, than physical. The book industry thinks it won, but it lost

TBF, editors and publishers and cover designers and researchers and lawyers and manuscript-readers and acqusitions staff and secretaries and software licenses and rent and electricity and office equipment wouldn't need to be paid if the inane publishing industry just stopped existing and every single book was text-only and published & sold by Amazon for $9.99, of which 99c goes to the author.

oh you sweet naive child

Your eyes would have bugged out. Girls in bikinis. Short ones, tall ones, big ones, small ones. So many fish in the sea you became inured to them. I didn’t know breasts came in that many shapes and sizes. That you could be that thin and be so naturally endowed.

Don’t laugh, this is the story of tomorrow, the joke is on YOU!

holy shit the entire piece that katherine quoted contains enough Lefgems to keep this thread going for a year

...the assembled multitude was a rainbow of colors, as many Latinos as whites, maybe more, blacks, multicultural people, [...]

But it was not scary, AT ALL! Bump into someone by accident and no one took offense. With that many people in attendance you could get scared, think of violence, but there was none of that, it was strangely calm.

But in VIP most of the people were white. So we’re still segregated, albeit by economic opportunity and success.

Don’t laugh, this is the story of tomorrow, the joke is on YOU!
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, July 31, 2018 9:53 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel this

the latest letter is....a lot to take in

Yesterday I played Shawn Colvin’s “Steady On,” of which I had an advance cassette, I played it that week in Minnesota after my ex-wife left, she said she’d call when I landed, but she never did. And when we finally connected I told her not to pick me up at the airport, I just could not be disappointed once more.

also a possible Minnesota connection!!!! woah

Bump into someone by “accident,” just to test if they’re “naturally endowed,” and no one takes offense (or at least can catch you as you slip away through the crowd)

"I Just Could Not Be Disappointed Once More: The Bob Lefsetz Story"

This thread has gone from successfully pointing and laughing to something far more convoluted and confusing.

Upgrade?

The public only has time for the best, and if you're not it, find another vertical. Don't try to be LIKE Drake, BE Drake!

Dude still wants to fuck Linda Ronstadt, innit

t's different here. The bathroom has a water sprayer next to the toilet, in case you don't use paper...

In Case You Don't Use Paper would've been a perfect Horrible 70s album title

the whole line wouldn't be a bad SZA lyric.

"I've been a fan of satellite radio since day one; I never listen to terrestrial EVER," said Bob Lefsetz.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bob-lefsetz-music-writer-and-outspoken-columnist-will-host-new-live-talk-show-exclusively-for-siriusxm-300700476.html

man of the people

Reminds me of that Lou Reed interview:

Sirius's impending merger with XM is anticipated to boost earnings. Do you own any stock in the company?
What are you, a fucking asshole? I'm here telling you the truth about music and you want to know if I have stock in the fucking radio? You fucking piece of shit. What did I do to deserve that?

The best place I’ve been in the last decade is Bogota, because I felt so alive, because everybody had had a relative assassinated, they were living the Grass Roots lifestyle, they were living for today.

so grotesque I can’t even zing

That sentence is amazing in every way, and should be memorialized in stone (in the Lefsetz Library, perhaps).

Hoo boy

This is kind of hysterical. The pussy-grabber in chief rapes and pillages our nation and its relationships, yet a comedian is unable to pursue his career. Have we lost perspective?

Hell, I'll step in a hole here, lesbians have weighed in on Louis C.K.'s return, and they're entitled to their voice, but I'm telling you now the average male is wincing, wondering whether we should take our heterosexual clues from gay people.

Heterosexual Clues: The Bob Lefsetz Story

Dude’s gettin pretty ugly here. Liked it better when he was talking about the Apple Watch.

he always sucked

ESPECIALLY when talking about women in any way

there seems to be little room for soul music in the black space these days

What is this "black space" you speak of?

I've got a black space, babe, and I'll white your name

A+

What is this rat bastardry

https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2018/09/bob-lefsetz-jason-flom-join-for-no-holds-barred-tour.html

I am deeply insulted that there's no way I can buy negative tickets to this tour, ie tickets that force a venue to hold a space open, and where the money paid for them goes to anyone else but the people on stage.

Flom, who is the Founder and CEO of Lava Records, Lava Music Publishing, and Lava Media, LLC., and previously served as Chairman and CEO at Atlantic Records, Virgin Records, and Capitol Music Group, is personally responsible for launching acts such as Lorde, Katy Perry, Kid Rock, and Greta Van Fleet

look, he might have waited a decade and four albums after teenaged Kid Rock got himself support slots for BDP to sign him, but Flom's taxes paid for the road Rock drove on to get to those shows. and he drank some New Zealand wine once, which means that he built the high school where Lorde won a talent contest. his grandmother made him go to church on Christmas, and gave him a dollar to put in the collection plate, so he basically funded Katy Hudson's Christian music career eight years before Katy Perry signed to Capitol as her third major label deal.

Sounds like a good date night to me.