I’m not one of those annoying old people constantly crowing about how wonderful things used to be. My generation must answer for 8-track tapes, rotary dial phones and gas shortages – not to mention every piece of clothing John Travolta wore in “Saturday Night Fever.”
Am I nostalgic for that? Hardly. I’m a modern guy who [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Local Rhythms – Lose the digital cheesecloth
August 26, 2009Local Rhythms – Roll ‘em down, crank it up
August 20, 2009By the time you read this, the brief summer spasm of high temps and no rain may be over. But as I drove to a deck party the other night, the Who’s Woodstock set started on XM Deep Tracks.
Instinctively, I rolled down the windows and grabbed the volume knob.
I arrived home and decided to pick [...]
Shed Woes – region’s live music biz adapts
August 15, 2009Remember when the concert market behaved like it had Hermes handbags on offer, not Jimmy Buffett seats? Akin to luxury goods, the demand for high-end talent at a premium price seemed recession-proof. The question wasn’t whether fans would pay, but how much.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the gold mine.
Sir Paul McCartney, [...]
By the time they got to Woodstock
August 13, 200940 years ago today, a crowd estimated at half a million people gathered on an upstate New York dairy farm to enjoy the music world’s top acts. What happened made history. Rain, food shortages and refugee camp conditions did not dampen the resolve to, in the words of farm owner Max Yasgur, “have nothing but [...]
Local Rhythms – Music wants to be free – or at least freemium
August 6, 2009The record companies must be feeling pretty good right now. Two recent illegal downloading cases netted the RIAA over $2.6 million in judgment money. The era of piracy is ending, just like they said it would. Music fans – turn off your computers, start your cars, and drive post haste to Newbury Comics for further [...]
