who is Bob Lefsetz?

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.

start saving your tomatoes now so they’ll be nice and mushy

Your skin is better than mine.

Your attitude is better than mine.

I am the problem, I need to GET OUT!

Come on, you've been there, oftentimes without a condom. It's physical, you cannot fight the urge.

And it's the groove of the track, like building to orgasm.

You're no longer flaccid, the blood is flowing, you're erect.

Even better, it's reciprocal, you're not alone doing the hand jive.

WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR?

the above, it should be noted, is his response to this def leppard lyric: "I've gotta know tonight / If you're alone tonight / Can't stop this feeling / Can't stop this fire."

but i mean, come on, you've been there!

goddammit why must lefsetz tear down everything good

“Oftentimes Without a Condom: The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Bob Lefsetz”

credit where credit is due: his column this week about pledgemusic's failure to pay the band fastball, and the responses he published a day later from a bunch of other people who haven't gotten paid, was on the money and the company is now very publicly being called to account. good use of his little bit o' clout.

Corporations are not people. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE!

Then again, Depeche Mode said that as country artists work to blend products into their songs.

Arrest him.

You see the Sunset Strip was populated by castoffs, those not wanted, those who didn't fit in, not Ivy League graduates. It was a different era, your parents didn't bribe colleges to get you in, they expected you to leave the house after high school and stay gone. What you did...

Was your business.

It's hard to describe the power of rock and roll. It's something you feel, oftentimes in your genitalia.

an instant classic

Sunset Strip denizen Jim Morrison was a UCLA film school grad and extremely “intellectual” in his approach to rock ‘n roll.

And when the Beatles hit, everybody got a guitar. It was kind of like everybody buying a computer to be on AOL back in the nineties. Then again, today’s college students may not have even been born in the nineties. I’m trying to think of something that ubiquitous. And instant. We all have smartphones, but it didn’t happen overnight. Ah, I guess you had to be there.

We used to get it, there was a ladder to the top, a room where everybody was inside doing dope with the cool people. If you wanted to make it, you knew how to do it.

But not anymore.

They called Coney Island, "the playground of the world." There was no place like it, in the whole world. Now it's shrunk down to almost nothing. People from all over the world came here. When I was very small, I even got lost at Coney Island. But they found me, on the beach. We used to sleep on the beach here, sleep overnight. They don't do that anymore. Things changed, you see. They don't sleep anymore on the beach.