who is Bob Lefsetz?

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.

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

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.

Don’t you talk that way about Murray Ostril

godspeed you! bob lefsetz

My sincere apologies to Murray Ostril (<3) for the weak joke. No apologies to Bob Lefsetz.

I'm simultaneously watching The Dirt on Netflix and reading the book Lefsetz Letter on The Dirt and posting to ILM about it

this must be how Siddhartha felt sitting under the Bodhi tree

honest to fucking god

The BMW salesman wouldn’t give Steve Lukather the time of day, until he came back with cash

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.

morrisp, I keep meaning to mention this. it's 'Reba'.

👍, 🐸

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

Baseball is not only no longer the national pastime, it's certifiably NICHE!

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.”

It's always subtle at first. And then you know what's happening.

But they didn't. I said it. EARTHQUAKE!

What’s Bob’s take on the Swift/Braun thing? Didn’t he (semi-)famously dis Taylor back in the day?

I hope we never find out.

Bob was incredibly mad about Taylor Swift not having her music on streaming

She named her album Red after he told her about Joni’s Blue iirc

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.

hmm

There are so many words, so many descriptions, that you cannot say.

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

the a word
the b word
the c word
etc.

old man yells, etc

there are so many clouds you can't yell at these days!

back in the 60s people cared about music, passion, authenticity and saying the n-word freely

Every time I see this thread revived I'm hoping its because he said something so obnoxious that he managed to cancel himself.

Just because someone's an African-American, does that mean they didn't do it?

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.

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 ]

To Gen-X, music was a party, more about being a member of the club than what was happening on stage.

f you, Bob

I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.

— 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.

do I really want to relive the past that badly?

Yes, yes you do, Bob.

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.

If you’re interested, though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGdn_UzdF5A

Apropos of not much, here's a Lefsetzism popping up on Twitter via Chris Stein:

Bob Lefsetz @Lefsetz:
"Pelosi and her pals are like a Silicon Valley outfit that never releases its product. It's so busy getting it right that it can never come out."

— chris stein (@chrissteinplays) July 28, 2019

leftsetz ...otm

What’s that supposed to mean? The 116th Congress has passed a lot of bills, you can see them here.

— 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), Saturday, July 27, 2019 8:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i don’t know but i been told
odesza records are going gold.
i ask you how things could get much worse:
if you hear about them from lefsetz first.
wowee
pretty scary

Talk to any big time music exec. Talent is abundant, but is the act a STAR? Don't forget they call it show BUSINESS, which means it's all about selling, and if people don't buy, you're toast.