Should have just said Psst! Come over here!
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 02:13 (eleven months ago) link
sic i would ultimately like to return to the image-free 1960s musics of motown, ed sullivan, and also hippies
― ''i am the kanye west kanye west thinks he is.'' (Austin), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:02 (eleven months ago) link
perhaps the image-free 1950s of elvis and little richard will provide a safe space for all of us.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:44 (eleven months ago) link
tbfttl The Lef did not make any claims about those decades in his current assertion
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 05:40 (eleven months ago) link
Seymour loved not only Chinese, but other cuisines
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:02 (eleven months ago) link
Clearly Stein died so he would never have to encounter a Lefsetz letter again.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:19 (eleven months ago) link
OMG
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:44 (eleven months ago) link
Believe me, unless you were living in NYC you didn’t know about CBGB’s. And the Ramones… Even aficionados didn’t know the band had released records until the second, “Leave Home.” It was only by time the third, “Rocket to Russia” with “Rockaway Beach,” was released, that people realized this was a real act, committed to success, much more talented than they’d originally perceived. You see the Ramones were seen as a novelty, a curio, a one and done. I mean when were they gonna give up on the joke?yes the first Ramones record, famously didn't have much of an influence.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:45 (eleven months ago) link
what a fuckin dildo
Served up on a pu pu platter.(xps)
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:46 (eleven months ago) link
Unbelievable this Lefsetz blurb for the Rap Capital book:
“You’ll be dining out on the book for a week. Telling all the incredible stories to your friends. Atlanta is hiding in plain sight, still most people don’t see it. But if you read Rap Capital, you will.” --Bob Lefsetz, Lefsetz Letter
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 9 April 2023 02:35 (eleven months ago) link
I've said it in this thread before. I definitely — on a primal level — *agree* with Lefsetz's underlying viewpoint that the monoculture is dead. In contrast to life in the '70s and '80s, fewer people have a grasp on an agreed "music narrative" because there's so fewer universal music narratives everyone can agree on, thanks to the ala carte nature of the streaming landscape + death of genre tribalism + record labels only betting on sure things post-recession + death of mtv/omnipresence of rock radio.
But to sit here as a grown man being like, "You know there's a secret little diamond in the rough called "Atlanta hip-hop"
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 9 April 2023 02:42 (eleven months ago) link
Like it feels like fake naïveté, but just might be ... naïveté?
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 9 April 2023 02:43 (eleven months ago) link
loved his column yesterday when he explained that most people don’t realize that atlanta has a big rap scene
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:50 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Sunday, 9 April 2023 02:50 (eleven months ago) link
Tell us more, Bob, about this...Watergate thing?
If you weren't of age back then you have no idea how big the Watergate story was. Not only did they write a book about it, "All the President's Men," they made a first class movie based on the book.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 01:34 (eleven months ago) link
LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 01:35 (eleven months ago) link
They mentioned it in a Skynyrd song!
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 01:40 (eleven months ago) link
A book has never been written about a real life subject before! It was all made up before!!!!!
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 02:00 (eleven months ago) link
If you weren’t of age then, you have no idea how big the balloon boy story was!!!!
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 02:01 (eleven months ago) link
nothing lives up to its billing anymore. i first noticed this phenomenon in 1974...
https://frinkiac.com/img/S04E17/1010809.jpg
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 03:01 (eleven months ago) link
You see I know these billionaires. To be in their orbit...let's just say there's a lot of largesse.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 04:29 (nine months ago) link
Fuck Musk/Zuckerberg. I want a Lefsetz/Steve Hoffman duel to the death
― beamish13, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 04:37 (nine months ago) link
"threads is napster"
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:51 (eight months ago) link
got a kick out of this exchange on cnn dot com
Armani White 00:24:50… of the things that happened as far as challenges, people remixing it. And people were like- like there was like a Latin version of "Billie Eilish." That that happened at one point. And like, there's a lot of these things happened after the song already came out.Audie Cornish 00:25:13BUT did you freak out and say, hey, that's my song, don't mess with it?Armani White 00:25:17NO, no, no, no, no. I think, so there was this there's this guy named Bob Lefsetz. I used to I used to be a part of his newsletter that used to get sent to my email every Monday. And one of the things he's talking about was how Prince used to fight the music industry so much his entire career. He fought the music industry. And one of the things that happened, like in the Napster era, in the early Internet era, he just fought to have his music off of the Internet … etc
… of the things that happened as far as challenges, people remixing it. And people were like- like there was like a Latin version of "Billie Eilish." That that happened at one point. And like, there's a lot of these things happened after the song already came out.
Audie Cornish 00:25:13
BUT did you freak out and say, hey, that's my song, don't mess with it?
Armani White 00:25:17
NO, no, no, no, no. I think, so there was this there's this guy named Bob Lefsetz. I used to I used to be a part of his newsletter that used to get sent to my email every Monday. And one of the things he's talking about was how Prince used to fight the music industry so much his entire career. He fought the music industry. And one of the things that happened, like in the Napster era, in the early Internet era, he just fought to have his music off of the Internet … etc
― the late great, Saturday, 22 July 2023 20:13 (eight months ago) link
I think Bob's dictating his newsletter into his phone these days. the entries are interminable
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 22 July 2023 21:58 (eight months ago) link
Not with his take on the Aldean controversy
But he's moved on to the anti-Semite at a ski resort who's sending him hateful emails
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 July 2023 12:02 (eight months ago) link
lefsetz and ted gi*ia are diametrically opposed on the issue of artist catalog sales. idk who to reflexively disagree with!
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:42 (six months ago) link
What's his take?
― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:45 (six months ago) link
What's Gioia's take? (Is this the same guy who wrote a book on jazz history?)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:48 (six months ago) link
lefsetz: artists are dumb for selling their catalog because their money won't growgioia: artists are sly foxes for hoodwinking vc/pe money men and selling high on their catalog before the value of the music depreciates
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:37 (six months ago) link
or you can interpret for yourself here
gioia: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/investment-funds-are-now-sellinglefsetz: https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2023/09/19/katy-perry-sells-catalog/
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:38 (six months ago) link
Why are people down on Goia?
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:43 (six months ago) link
Goia Trance
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:45 (six months ago) link
he's fine in his jazz wheelhouse but pretty dunderheaded when he tries to talk about any other genre or the modern music business
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:49 (six months ago) link
lefsetz: artists are dumb for selling their catalog because their money won't grow
i'm going to take a wild guess that lefsetz has never had a couple hundred million bucks to invest with. because based on my anecdotal knowledge of people who do, that pile tends to grow!
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:39 (six months ago) link
right
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:42 (six months ago) link
Jann Wenner on the podcast today. I don't think I could bear to listen, but wanted to pass that along.
― peace, man, Thursday, 21 September 2023 10:58 (six months ago) link
A true meeting of the minds
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 September 2023 13:04 (six months ago) link
oh God
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 21 September 2023 13:04 (six months ago) link
lord why must you tempt me?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 September 2023 13:17 (six months ago) link
I dunno. Yasi Salek is discussing the Smiths over on Bandsplain, so I got better things to listen to, but it's there if you want it.
― peace, man, Thursday, 21 September 2023 13:26 (six months ago) link
FWIW, there's a note on the Lefsetz pod that it was recorded prior to the he publication of the NYT interview.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 September 2023 13:58 (six months ago) link
Costco
Every rich person needs to go. Not to one in the tony suburbs, but the inner city, where all classes meet.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 21 September 2023 14:28 (six months ago) link
All this talk about a loneliness epidemic, men having no friends, I understand it. But we can’t demonize the internet, it’s the best thing that ever happened to me, we can reach out and touch so many, we’re never completely alone. But the human touch is important too. We no longer bowl together, and who even bowls anyway? Hanging with the masses, those you don’t know, is anathema. We all live in the country, but we are not all in it together.
Unless you’re at Costco.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 21 September 2023 14:35 (six months ago) link
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, September 21, 2023 8:58 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
sickos: no...ha ha ha...no!
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 September 2023 14:38 (six months ago) link
lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 September 2023 14:56 (six months ago) link
We no longer bowl together, and who even bowls anyway?
i met some friends a huge bowling alley about a month ago and it was PACKED, like there was a wait to get a lane
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 September 2023 14:57 (six months ago) link
That's because they knew Lefsetz wasn't going to show up
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 21 September 2023 15:06 (six months ago) link
i bet he's really bad at bowling
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 September 2023 15:32 (six months ago) link
sudden bowling non sequitur is sweet cuz presumably an echo of robert putnam whom you don't hear constantly invoked anymore
i kept excerpting stuff from the little monograph on costco but there was too much stuff and the flow is so important. it doesn't even start at costco: first he's across the street at the tire shop getting rung up by an eastern european and wondering if the guy enjoys his job. there's a wait and the marisesque felice is unavailable so he wanders over to costco and the reader follows. highly recommended.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 21 September 2023 15:38 (six months ago) link