who is Bob Lefsetz?

you haven't lived until you've received an email from lefsetz on a summer afternoon with the subject "lesbian tiktok"

Oh Lord Pac...

xp please help i've been clicking the link in yr post for an hour to no avail...

words from the Lef

https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/

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I'm texting even though it's two in the morning, if my recipients didn't turn off the ringer, they deserve to be woken up!

In other words, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are not doing anything the men haven’t done before. Rock was built on sex (and sexism). We even had a band called “Whitesnake,” which released an album whose title track was “Slide It In” (which was quite good, in fact).

i mean, he's not wrong, but. . . gross.

Never heard Slide It In, but today happened to be the first time I ever looked into the verse lyrics from Rock You Like a Hurricane

It's early morning, the sun comes out
Last night was shaking and pretty loud
My cat is purring, it scratches my skin
So what is wrong with another sin?
The bitch is hungry, she needs to tell
So give her inches and feed her well
More days to come, new places to go
I've got to leave, it's time for a show

That's actually relieving. I had thought for years it was "beat her well", which was far more disturbing.

OK, yeah, that's a definite "f".

Idk where I read the other one.

yeah scorpions definitely get skeezy and it's amplified by the odd word choices i'm assuming resulting from them being german writing in english

Slide It In is a good album.

my irreverent whitesnake story:

they recorded this song on their first album, which is a cover of the bobby bland tune. i knew it from here. before i was aware of the connection, an old coworker played that whitesnake album by chance one day and i thought it was supremely hilarious when that song came on.

subject line: "only fans"

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No surprise, Lefsetz a porn scholar

No surprise, Lefsetz a porn scholar

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"I've got a PHD in WAP!"

do you guys think he knows that he has an entire thread of 1200++ posts dedicated to poking fun at him?

i like think he reads it occasionally. hi bob. i loathe you and am equally fascinated by you.

I saw "the Lefsetz Letter" referenced IRL recently, in some artist's press blurb. Gave me the jeebies.

He seems like a guy who has Google alerts set up about himself

jfc

And the cradle will no longer rock.

That's my favorite Van Halen song. It sounds so alive, but Eddie Van Halen isn't.

lol this fuckin' hack

i mean, favorites are subjective and he's technically not wrong about everything else.

"Yes, we are still 'Jump'-ing but Eddie can't because he's dead of throat cancer."

"Sammy can't drive 55 because he's over the legal limit on Cabo Wabo, and Wolfie can't drive because his learner's permit expired, but Eddie can't because he expired, earlier today, after years of battling throat cancer in a body ravaged by alcohol abuse"

lol im dying

sadly, eddie has literally died, and is dead

And now time has told us that Eddie could not stand the test of time

Eddie Van Halen, age 65, has finished what he started and now it is we who are incomplete.

Somebody Get Me a Doctor (to certain the death of Eddie Van Halen)

With the passing of Eddie there are undoubtedly a number of very sad Van Halen fans throughout the world, it's unlikely that Jamie's the only one cryin'.

Rock and roll doesn't need you. You see rock and roll is a band of outsiders.

There, I said it.

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then again, Lefsetz seems more of a Wally Tax kind of guy to me:

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Stop depending on the rule of law.

We’re in an endless loop. The left keeps depending on the system, and the right rigs the system and then the left is positively STUNNED when things don’t work out its way. Were there any consequences for DeJoy slowing down the mail? Of course not, he just stonewalled, and ignored the government and judicial orders. He said removing sorting machines was de rigueur and there was no way to reinsert them and…HE GOT AWAY WITH IT! Yes folks, in plain sight Trump and his cronies put their finger on the scale with absolutely no consequences....

Sure, he may concede, or at least agree to go, even as I write this, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Meanwhile, with the support of his party apparatchiks Trump has succeeded in undermining the legitimacy of the election in the minds of 40% of the electorate, so even if Biden takes office, expect pushback, expect very little to get done.

Meanwhile, sorting the smoldering ashes all the Democrats can do is lament they didn’t move even FURTHER to the center. Yes, the reason people voted for Trump was the protests and “Defund the Police” and if we just shut up and obeyed orders and played the game properly, we’d win. That hasn’t worked for DECADES, if ever!

Meanwhile, AOC goes on record the DNC lives in the last century, focusing on TV and the mail as opposed to Facebook, and she’s excoriated by the same gang who keeps on losing, putting a stake in the heart of the Democratic Party, if not ultimately democracy itself....

Come on, rule of law, what did the police ever do for you? They won’t even come to a car accident anymore, and when you call for help they usually say there’s nothing they can do. But somehow the police keep being lauded, just like the military. Come on, the fighters are pawns who’ve been sent overseas by Bush and Cheney and why don’t we stop lauding those at the bottom and stop the bleeding by holding those at the top accountable?

Wall Street skates after ruining the economy twelve years ago and what’s the solution? GIVE THEM MORE MONEY! The news is littered with fat cats who gamed the system to get money from the government this spring, meanwhile, the hoi polloi, out of work, about to get kicked out of their dwellings, are getting no relief. McConnell says no relief before the election, which is still in play according to the Trumpians.

And, like an autocratic country, Republican elected officials are afraid of getting on the wrong side of Trump. Oh, we read in the left wing press, the same one that trumpeted inaccurate polls, that once Trump was defeated everybody would come back to their senses. HASN’T HAPPENED YET!... And all the DNC will tell us is we must appease the Trumpers… That didn’t work and it will never work. You’ve got to start a fire on your side that draws people to you, you don’t hobble your message to try and be accepted by the other side....

The Black Lives Matters protesters had it right, they were mad as hell and weren’t going to take it anymore. That’s what we need now, spontaneous demonstrations that evidence our power to Trump! Oh, you’re afraid, he controls the military, it’ll just add fuel to the fire. But are you winning? No, you keep depending on the system to make things right, but that hasn’t happened in four years, why should it happen now?

finding nuggets of truth in Lefsetz is a useful self-diagnostic tool - like, if you find yourself agreeing with him, you can choose to either amend where you know you're wrong, or just continue down the path of sounding more and more like Bob Lefsetz

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this is the real lefsetz graf tho:

God, kids could not steal music, they needed to be told it was wrong and sued into submission. Did that work? NO! MySpace was huge, Friendster started the social network phenomenon, but did that keep them alive when a better mousetrap, i.e. Facebook, came along? Of course not. And Zuckerberg was smart enough to buy WhatsApp and Instagram to protect his mindshare, those in government woke up YEARS later! As for the public? It doesn’t care that Zuck owns and controls them all, it doesn’t even really care that’s it’s coughing up its privacy, the truth is the public hates to pay and that’s why Zuck proffers ads, and when Apple tries to hamper targeting, Zuck and the rest of the advertisers blow back and Apple postpones implementation. Do you know what I’m talking about? If not, maybe like AOC says you need to go online and follow the news, where it’s going. Yes, we’re never going back. As for Trump’s administration, there was almost no going back, even coal didn’t come back. DeVos emphasized private schools, the rich and powerful were taxed less and were unfettered and…

Do you know what I'm talking about? well not 100%, bob.

Billy Corgan, asked ti cite his favourite bad review of the Smashing Pumpkins:

What I read a lot back in the day was criticism of our postmodernism, criticism of our restlessness, criticism of my voice, criticism of our desire to play rock, heavy rock — it’s just a lot of things that were attacking the immutable characteristics of the band. If a reviewer says in the first sentence, “I hate this guy’s voice,” where do you go from there? You’re going to hate everything. Even if it’s a well-executed song or it’s the best use of that voice in a particular way. That’s what I remember, just reading a lot of things that you would just sort of say, “Well, then why?” Why would this person even review the record? Why didn’t they give it to somebody who at least had an open mind or had never even heard the band or something?

You know what, here’s a good review. Here’s a good bad review. It’s not a record review — you know Bob Lefsetz? I did a thing a few years ago where Cheap Trick was playing Sgt. Pepper’s at the Hollywood Bowl. I was invited to be one of the guests. Onstage, I got to sing the John Lennon song “Julia,” about his mother, with Robin Zander, the lead singer of Cheap Trick. It was really beautiful. And Bob Lefsetz writes: “I normally hate Billy Corgan, but here I have to admit, he was good.” Stuff like that. He had to qualify by saying he normally hates me. He can’t just write, you know, “Billy Corgan, appearing here in not his normal vampire guise, did a nice rendition of ‘Julia’ with Robin Zander.” It was like: “Normally I hate this guy. But he did good here.”

lefsetz really doesn't like the idea of bob dylan selling his catalog, for whatever reason

wow that's one of the most reasonable billy corgan quotes i've ever read

Billy can be legit funny (and “down-to-earth”) at times, which makes all his... other stuff all the more confounding.

Yesterday I went for a Rituxan infusion. For my pemphigus foliaceus. I need two every six months, otherwise my skin starts becoming unglued, literally, and...

why tell us this? is this bob lefsetz or bob ducca?

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You don't see hip-hop fans out protesting.

(context: he means in general. he isn't talking about maga protests in washington.)

was june so long ago?

lefsetz weighs in

When are we gonna let this guy out of the doghouse?

Let's get very specific here, and leave emotions aside. What Wallen said is vernacular that is used in the black community all the time, the N-word is a part of hip-hop culture and employed on recordings. That does not make Wallen's usage right, but it does speak to intention.

"guys it's been TWO WEEK" is certainly a take

What did Don Henley sing, that it was about forgiveness?

We need some of that here now.

It's been possibly years since I've read anything by that guy, but whoo-boy was that terrible. Not even the (bad) ideas, it's just so terribly written, like a grandparent's facebook screed on something they don't understand. "Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of 'Batman Vs. Superman.' It's too busy and too glum, with erratic editing and a tone out of tune with its comic book origins. But Zach Snyder is the most gifted filmmaker we've had since Michael Bay and Brett Ratner, and if we don't give the guy another chance we'll be missing out on some of the best movies ever made. Plenty of people make bad movies, but do we cancel them? No. This cancel culture is out of control. If we cancelled people for being stupid and making stupid decisions and saying stupid things, then everyone would be cancelled, even me. And then who will write your newsletters?"