beyonce doesn't usually bookend her stadium shows with half a football game either, what the fuck do these guys think they're even talking about
― goole, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
They have a classic rock/ rockist mentality combined with sexism, and they like to be provocative. Lefsetz also keeps returning to certain themes of his that do not always make sense-- he suggests that we should never blame ticketmaster or the like for high ticket prices or shows selling out quickly because, according to him, the artist alone deserves the blame for not dictating a lower price to the ticket service and for not coming up with a special method of distribution that will allow more fans than scalpers to get the tickets. I think blame can be shared, but everything seems to be black or white to him.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
wasn't it more of a dance recital than a musical performance tho
― you are my capitalism (spazzmatazz), Monday, 4 February 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
No, it was not. There were talented musicians up there, performing under what I would imagine were really difficult conditions sound-wise (what's the monitor mix like at the fucking Super Bowl?). But no one's ever gonna talk about them. The guitarist had to shoot fucking sparks out of her guitar to get noticed at all.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 4 February 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
he likes amanda palmer's online approach because she works in a more classical mode of composition and live arrangement
this isn't true, I don't think - Lefsetz's deal is basically to champion the internet as it was understood at the outset of social media, when Myspace was (briefly) the default mode of presentation. He's not terrifically interested in the nature of an artist's composition or their arrangement; he's old-school in the sense that what counts for him is success, hits, asses in seats.
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
talking about the talented musicians behind beyoncé: http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/02/but_what_about_beyonces_band.html
― lex pretend, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
what's the monitor mix like at the fucking Super Bowl?
in-ear monitors p. much industry standard now tbqf
cool link lex!
― goole, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
weren't most of the tracks canned loops? certainly didn't sound live. i assumed the guitarist was playing to a track because of the sparks. then again i didn't watch the performance closely and basically had it in the background...had no idea she had a 10 piece band w her. im just gonna slink into this corner ...
― you are my capitalism (spazzmatazz), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
Awesome; of a 10-piece band, four get spotlit (but not the drummer, which considering the rhythmic focus of Beyonce's music is a pretty glaring fucking omission), and/but the backup singers get their own YouTube video. Ha.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
the "dance recital" "musical performance" thing is so confusing to me, in what way is dance not a musical performance and iirc the super bowl halftime show used to be like, puppet shows, so where is it written that singing has to take precedence over dance
― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
xp the drummer got a few seconds on camera, i only noticed her and the guitarist
I feel like his embrace of technology is similar to how my parents love the XM radio and USB ports in their cars but only use them to listen to classical stations and ripped CDs of Moody Blues albums.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 4 February 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
trying to pretend the super bowl is anything other than a theatrical performance is ridiculous
― mh, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
I stand corrected on my take on his interest in seeing traditional songwriting and performance after discovering a tweet about him chilling w/Skrillex's dad: "He's proud. He should be"
― mh, Monday, 4 February 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
I hope the MBV album sells a billion copies, forcing this doofus to write some reactionary "kids today" piece.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not like a beyonce super fan or w/e but goddamn what in god's fuck more could you possibly want out of a superbowl halftime show????
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
People playing instruments that you can also masturbate to?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
What's Marah up to these days?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 February 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
chillin' in philly
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 February 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Oh shut up with your cliches:
And you know what's great about Bourbon Street? The people! They haven't got ugly, lumpy, imperfect people in Los Angeles, they're stopped at the border, like in "The Grapes Of Wrath." But here in Louisiana I came in contact with the real America, one that descends to the southern tip of our country to let loose, because while those on the coast are pursuing their career dreams, those in the middle know it's about having fun, and that's what you do in New Orleans, party.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
Sub "Sixth Street", "Texas", and "Austin" in the appropriate places and he probably published the same thing about SxSW.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 May 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
Is Lefsetz allowed in any cities by that criteria
― mh, Friday, 3 May 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
They haven't got ugly, lumpy, imperfect people in Los Angeles, they're stopped at the border
http://www.internationalmusicsummit.com/img/speakers/picture/detail/bob_lefsetz-300x300-18.jpg
― THIZZ VAN LEER @_@ (lpz), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
did I never drop my Lefsetz is Vizzini science itt?
― Fred by Durst (The Reverend), Friday, 3 May 2013 06:47 (eleven years ago) link
?
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 May 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
please do
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
getting taken by bourbon street in 2013, yeah...
― goole, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
His post also described his love for some lame jamband he saw at Jazzfest.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's so weird when ppl say stuff like that i wonder if they've ever been to L.A., there are all kinds of normal looking people in los angeles
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
Leftsetz lives in L.A. but apparently never looks around or in the mirror
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Lesfetz spends all of his time poolside at the Chateau Marmont iirc
― tylerw, Friday, 3 May 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Lefsetz is the drummer for Gay Dad.
― m0stlyClean, Friday, 3 May 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Oh hold on... His latest email wasn't even thinly veiled racist diatribe. Let the games commence...
― Oblique Strategies, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
i saw this one recently and i was just awestruck by how dumb this guy is
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/05/10/are-foodies-quietly-killing-rock-and-roll/
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
lol
he is the brains of the music industry, of this I am sure
― tweeship journey to 77 (mh), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
it was funny cuz it was someone on twitter who was like "Great stuff from Lefsetz as usual" and I just glanced and assumed it was an ILXor being snarky so I tweeted back "lol" but I think they were being serious :/
― jay-z's ansari (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
even better imo
― tweeship journey to 77 (mh), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
"Lefsetz daft punk"About 47,100 results (0.34 seconds)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
Howard Stern always goes on and on and on about this dude.
― errant flynn, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
Was “Gangnam Style” a fake?You’ll think so after reading this article. If nothing else, you’ll learn how to rig the game. That’s what today’s media manipulators do, make you think you’re living in your own self-created world when the truth is you lived in a walled Disneyland, where your odds of building a ride are bupkes.
You’ll think so after reading this article. If nothing else, you’ll learn how to rig the game. That’s what today’s media manipulators do, make you think you’re living in your own self-created world when the truth is you lived in a walled Disneyland, where your odds of building a ride are bupkes.
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 09:07 (eleven years ago) link
Bupkes!
― Position Position, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
His instant pronouncements make me wanna do a SNL "really"
And I realized everybody was smoking because I saw them out last night in Piccadilly Circus. I'm used to L.A., where there is no nightlife, where everything interesting is happening at home, and you're not invited. But there's definitely a scene in London, and it's not only there.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
Have you seen “Book Of Mormon”? There’s a tribal chief with a name so OUT THERE, so OFFENSIVE, so SWEAR WORD, that I cannot use it in this e-mail, or you won’t get it.
Yup, I love to use the F-word. But I can’t. Because too many of you work for uptight corporations with spam filters that won’t let that word through. Yup, you think you’re so hip, that you’re not like your parents, that you’re open-minded and accepting. But the truth is so many are still on the treadmill of life, working for the man, and we depend upon artists to show us the light, to question convention, to stretch our minds, to show us the POSSIBILITIES!
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
lefsetz on a recent stones concert is a+
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
It’s weird, because as buzzed as the audience was before the show, during it they were relatively sedate, there were no peaks, until Lisa Fischer sang Merry Clayton’s part. War, CHILDREN! Lisa’s the star of “Twenty Feet From Stardom” and she’s the star of the first half of the Stones show too. She misses not a note, her voice is so powerful, she exudes the sex in rock and roll that Mick Jagger can’t, since he’s dieted down to nothing, you can almost see his bones. What a sentence that must be, being unable to eat so you can fulfill the image of your audience, which has aged itself. Hell, Lisa was not svelte, but if you think sex is about appearances, you’ve never done it. It’s about a spirit inside. And Lisa evidenced hers.
― how's life, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
this guy is just so unbelievably dumb i think i'm getting kind of obsessed w/him
― unfinest DN (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah who the hell isn't hate-reading him at this point
― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
is his primary reader-base just bitter past-prime industry folk who miss the 90s?
or are they even older?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link