Bob Lefsetz penned a great piece in praise of Howard Stern recently. I recommend you check it out. It's great not simply because he hits all the right notes about Howard, although he does. It's great because Bob deciphers the real secret to Howard's success, a secret available to anyone who considers themselves "talent." Says Lefsetz: Unless you have the confidence to woodshed in the wilderness until you're appealing to the masses you'll never become a legend. And this: When everybody went BuzzFeed, boiling it down to the nugget for the supposedly short attention span public, … [Read more...]
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10/11
Pandora, Lefsetz, and Common Sense
Every now and then I read something which is so totally off the wall it demands a thoughtful response. So it is with Bob Lefsetz's recent screed on Pandora. Lefsetz, who is more a lightning rod than a beacon for insight, is a former music industry exec who has so many chips on his shoulder, his shoulders are virtually all-chip. WIRED described him thusly: "Blogger (and digital-era pamphleteer) Bob Lefsetz couldn't make it in the music biz—until he started ranting about how it should be run." Lefsetz writes: Tim Westergren is not running a music service, but a religion. He expects his … [Read more...]
