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Posted by admin On October - 21 - 2008

What I remember from when I first started in the music business back in the 70’s was that record companies had ‘record people’ who worked there. I was fortunate enough to work for two labels who were run by three such people, Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert, the two guys who’s initials together made up [...]

Posted by admin On October - 20 - 2008

Who did what to rock and roll indeed? Everyone is to blame, some more than others. Maybe the one area where they understood it a little better is touring, it seems to be thriving.  It shows that while the record business suffers the music business doesn’t.  Let’s begin by taking a look at record companies and [...]