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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 September 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― Bitty Gingham Sheet (sic), Friday, 21 September 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
Sounds like a good date night to me.
― how's life, Friday, 21 September 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
start saving your tomatoes now so they’ll be nice and mushy
― maura, Friday, 21 September 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Your skin is better than mine.Your attitude is better than mine.I am the problem, I need to GET OUT!
Your attitude is better than mine.
I am the problem, I need to GET OUT!
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 29 October 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
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?
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?
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
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."
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
but i mean, come on, you've been there!
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
goddammit why must lefsetz tear down everything good
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
“Oftentimes Without a Condom: The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Bob Lefsetz”
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
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.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 25 January 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
Corporations are not people. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE!Then again, Depeche Mode said that as country artists work to blend products into their songs.
Then again, Depeche Mode said that as country artists work to blend products into their songs.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 15 February 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
Arrest him.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 February 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
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.
Was your business.
It's hard to describe the power of rock and roll. It's something you feel, oftentimes in your genitalia.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 23 March 2019 03:19 (five years ago) link
an instant classic
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 23 March 2019 03:52 (five years ago) link
Sunset Strip denizen Jim Morrison was a UCLA film school grad and extremely “intellectual” in his approach to rock ‘n roll.
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Saturday, 23 March 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
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.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 23 March 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link
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.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 23 March 2019 04:23 (five years ago) link
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.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 23 March 2019 10:48 (five years ago) link
Bob's favorite theme is that we no longer have shared cultural points of contact in which we all take pleasure and from which we're able to draw lessons that help us in our walk through life, but then every time this thread wakes up, our communal joy is palpable
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 23 March 2019 11:13 (five years ago) link
I guarantee you there are people sleeping on the beach in Coney Island tonight. Just not Bob's kind of people, if you see what I mean.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 23 March 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link
Don’t you talk that way about Murray Ostril
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Saturday, 23 March 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
godspeed you! bob lefsetz
My sincere apologies to Murray Ostril (<3) for the weak joke. No apologies to Bob Lefsetz.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 23 March 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
I'm simultaneously watching The Dirt on Netflix and reading the book Lefsetz Letter on The Dirt and posting to ILM about itthis must be how Siddhartha felt sitting under the Bodhi tree
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 March 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
honest to fucking godThe BMW salesman wouldn’t give Steve Lukather the time of day, until he came back with cash
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 March 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
I wish ILM weren’t in the middle of a “slow period” right now... I feel like having a good dust-up over something trivial.
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Saturday, 23 March 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
morrisp, I keep meaning to mention this. it's 'Reba'.
― ☮, 🐸 (peace, man), Saturday, 23 March 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
👍, 🐸
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Saturday, 23 March 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
Baseball is not only no longer the national pastime, it's certifiably NICHE!
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 01:23 (five years ago) link
Nothing catches fire anymore.
Unless it’s Notre Dame Cathedral.
Or to put it another way, we haven’t had that spirit here since 2012, with “Gangnam Style.”
― errant flynn, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
It's always subtle at first. And then you know what's happening.But they didn't. I said it. EARTHQUAKE!
But they didn't. I said it. EARTHQUAKE!
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 6 July 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
What’s Bob’s take on the Swift/Braun thing? Didn’t he (semi-)famously dis Taylor back in the day?
― stan by me (morrisp), Saturday, 6 July 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
I hope we never find out.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 6 July 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
Bob was incredibly mad about Taylor Swift not having her music on streaming
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 July 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
She named her album Red after he told her about Joni’s Blue iirc
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 7 July 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
What the left doesn't realize is it's established a line, a third-rail, on so many subjects, that those not in the club of the offended are scratching their heads and saying HUH?There are so many words, so many descriptions, that you cannot say.There are so many protected minorities.And this is how the left gets in trouble.
There are so many words, so many descriptions, that you cannot say.
There are so many protected minorities.
And this is how the left gets in trouble.
hmm
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Monday, 15 July 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
i always wish statements like this could be met with a request that they plainly list the words and phrases that they wish to say but no longer can
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 July 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
the a wordthe b wordthe c wordetc.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 15 July 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
old man yells, etc
― maura, Monday, 15 July 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
there are so many clouds you can't yell at these days!
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Monday, 15 July 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
back in the 60s people cared about music, passion, authenticity and saying the n-word freely
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 15 July 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
Every time I see this thread revived I'm hoping its because he said something so obnoxious that he managed to cancel himself.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 July 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Just because someone's an African-American, does that mean they didn't do it?
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 25 July 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
Couldn't find that quote, but
And thereafter “Lay Your Hands On Me” was a success, but eventually Joe Leeway left, not that we were ever sure what he contributed, and Tom and Alannah Currie moved to Australia and transmogrified into Babble and…
Fuck off back to Jamaica, Bob.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 25 July 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
Bob has seen the future and it’s electronic pop whatever act Odesza:
I can't go to see the oldsters anymore. I saw them when they were coming up, on the reunion tour and then the one after that...do I really want to relive the past that badly?
Of course there are exceptions, more than a few, but I just don't understand how the boomers can go year after year to see the same acts perform the same songs over and over again. I hunger for the new.
But what is hyped is crap and the rest of the scene is incomprehensible, loaded with wannabes crying for attention, to the point you give up.
But I stumbled on to ODESZA and last night I finally saw them.
It was an experience.
This is unfathomable to boomers. To them, it was all about the music, and only the music.
To Gen-X, music was a party, more about being a member of the club than what was happening on stage.
What is the appropriate music for today's generation, glued to its smartphones, with the world at its fingertips?
Something that cannot be replicated elsewhere, something that demands your attention, something that melds the past with the present, the analog with the digital in an amalgamation akin to a cyborg.
Now there were 18,000 people there. Sold out. And they're going to repeat the process tonight. And would do it again if they could get the venue.
And most people had no idea it was happening.
That's the modern world in a nutshell. Used to be you knew every act in town, there were never two stars on the same night, now you don't even know when a superstar is playing, even if you're a fan!
But somehow a coterie of people know, it's important to them and they go, even if you may be clueless.[/i ]
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
f you, Bob
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 28 July 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
— I think Kurt Cobain said that. “I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”; the guy from “Singles” said that.
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Sunday, 28 July 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
do I really want to relive the past that badly?
Yes, yes you do, Bob.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 July 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
Not to rag on Odesza, who never asked for Bob’s affections, but the “alternative” radio station that recently came to my market that’s basically the rock hits of the late 90’s + Imagine Dragons counts Odesza as one of the few EDM acts they’re willing to play and I find that pretty unsurprising. They’re not bad but they’re very, very Apple Commercial and Lefsetz counting them along his personal list of young turks feels very on-brand.
― what else are you all “over” (Champiness), Sunday, 28 July 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link