who is Bob Lefsetz?

Xpost - that Lef playing Van Halen at top volume and thereby ending a date story!

it's incredible, truly

He made the choice he had to.

I like the system brand notes....if the "Steve Hoffman Forum" was more akin to the "Penthouse Forum" I would suspect Lef of having constructed one of those elaborate fake annecdotes...

Alpine car stereo is perfect for Lef

Have never listened to his podcast. He’s hyping his interview with Christopher Cross on it :

I loved talking to this guy. He wrote songs, played in cover bands and then connected with a last chance demo tape. He's a fan, just like you and me. You're going to enjoy this.

Is that quote from a 1979 newsletter

still celebrating the Newmannium

he writes that hype like George Zimmer trying to get you to come visit The Men's Wearhouse

Fitting that Eric Carmen’s passing is drawing more reader letters than anything else recently.

Yep. Lefsetz age group.

His broad statements and judgments are something—

Elon Musk is more of a rock star than anybody making music today, and this didn't used to be the case. If you wanted to know which way the wind blew, you listened to a record, not anymore.

This bothers me, how the MTV paradigm of a worldwide hit single now dominates. That there's no parallel alternative music and culture, of any significance, but they call it the music "business," and everybody follows the money. Starving artists don't pay fealty to the work, they just complain that they don't get paid.

Man in the silk suit hurries by as he catches the starving artist's eye
Just for fun he says, "Start a Substack."

Once again, I'm against war, period. However, in this case Hamas did attack.

This thread is evergreen.

Putting Damon Kurkowski on blast in the new letter, ugh.

if the history of language (+discourse in general) was a game of uno, the word "HOWEVER" is the draw 4. and some fucking assholes absolutely cannot wait to drop that fucker on you.

😂 omg Lefsetz says he hates America cause of people like me and of all things holds up my dear late friend Tom Rapp as an opposite ideal - does he know Tom and I made music together?? And that Tom stood up for workers both in his job as a civil rights attorney and as an artist?? https://t.co/yoWNaTWMeg

— Damon K 🎤 (@dada_drummer) March 28, 2024

do love a good clapback.

Lefsetz is so obsessed with defending Spotify

Today's music business is all about consumption, CONTINUED CONSUMPTION! Do you know what I'm interested in? What the numbers for "Cowboy Carter" are a year from now!

Lonesome Cowboy Bob

his Spotify obsession is the most annoying of his 1001 annoying thing, it's like I'M NOT SOME BRAIN DAMAGED BOOMER INDUSTRY HANGER ON I LOVE DIGITAL STREAMING BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON

you guys really love to rag on this guy

hell yeah I love it

Putting Damon Kurkowski on blast in the new letter, ugh.

― paisley got boring (Eazy), Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:45 (one week ago) link

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I don’t want to sound like a Republican here, but
I don’t want to sound like a Republican here, but
I don’t want to sound like a Republican here, but
I don’t want to sound like a Republican here, but
I don’t want to sound like a Republican here, but

From Damon Krukowski's Substack:

'#BandcampFriday remains an excellent way to directly compensate musicians for recordings. All our Damon & Naomi albums are pay-as-you-wish, unless you are Bob Lefsetz in which case they cost $10,000 each'

we should all try to dogpile on lef right now and maybe the onslaught of beef will cause him to retire in shame.

there i go, writing real life fanfic again.

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