The thing I am learning, much to my cost, is that this business we call ‘show’ is flipped on it’s head. See it used to be that one toured in order to sell content. More and more now one basically gives the content away in order to get people to either:

a) Go to shows

b) Purchase swag

c) Promote a corporate tie-in

This is a bargain with the devil for any number of reasons, which I’ll delve into another time, but for now the question is ‘how did we get here?’. And the answer is simple: we got pimped.

Remember when ATM machines first hit? They were free, Free, FREE! Not so free anymore are they? We got used to them and then, like any good dealer, the banks then started charging. Good plan.

Now Google came along and gave us something very cool and very innocuous. They got us used to searching for stuff for free. And since we could search for stuff for free, we tended to seek out free solutions. And so […]

First of all, sorry, sorry, sorry for so many things recently. Where to begin?

–No the old blog posts are still not ‘back’.

–No you still can’t post. You still have to e-mail.

–Yes, I am working on all this stuff. It may seem like nothing’s happening, but really, a lot of stuff is happening.

Today’s little ditty is in regards to an episode last Friday (only 4 days behind schedule? Wow, I’m getting faster by the minute!).

A couple of you started telling me that you had noticed that your Pandora stations were no longer ‘suggesting’ my stuff in the course of playing stations starring artists that should eventually be flagged as similar to what I do… eg. Paul Simon or Peter Gabriel or perhaps Talking Heads. But… nada… nichts… bupkus. Dadai.

So I contacted Pandora and was told by one person that they could no longer find me in their database. (?!?) I informed the nice young lady that I was playing the JC Harris Station while we were talking. Now how about that? […]

OK, this is my first post with the new blog system, so forgive any glitches in the UI… it’s a work in progress.

The Rant Du Jour concerns a couple of stats. The first is that I sold 138 copies of Home in December 2008. Not great, but OK, the economy is in the tank, the music biz is in the tank, yada, yada, yada.

Then I started hearing about the Big PirateBay Trial. And if you’re over 30 and don’t know what ‘PirateBay’ is or what it’s all about, just ‘do the google’, mate.  In 25 words or less, PirateBay is a database of bittorrent files. And if you don’t know what torrent files are then you really can’t consider yourself tech savvy–get your kids to give you an education. OK, it’s sort of like Napster and Kazaa except that can’t be shut down. File sharing made easy. Perfect for handing copies of Iron Man to like, 100,000 of your […]