This all started with the question, ‘What makes a great album.’ I can only offer my own conclusion because if I ever went in a recording studio I can guarantee one thing, that I wouldn’t come out with a great album. I can’t play or sing, maybe a great spoken word album but then again [...]
Archive for the ‘Motivation’ Category
On February - 13 - 2010
On February - 5 - 2010
You admired those artists and what they had and if you had a bit of that talent you thought you stood a chance. It was worth giving it a go and at least if it didn’t happen it wasn’t the end of the world, you’d given it your best shot. You never needed to look [...]
On November - 1 - 2009
It’s incredible to see the media go in to free fall when the U2 show comes to town. As an exercise in how to promote your show no one does it better and no one will ever do it better. It’s close to an invasion, no matter what may be going on in the world [...]
On September - 28 - 2009
Another mad busy week getting everything ready for the book to go to the printers. Everyone seems to have done their bit, well almost til I interfere and make some changes. Call me a pain in the ass but whenever I see something that can be better I want to make it better so it’s [...]
categories: About The Engine Room, Creativity, Insights Collection, Inspiration, Motivation, Tony Michaelides
On April - 21 - 2009
Just thought I’d drop in with a little update. Plan is the book gets released on May 15th. The title(today) is Insights from the Engine Room but we have a focus group planned for 30th so things may change. I’ve had some great help from Dave directing me and avoiding me going in places named [...]
On October - 31 - 2008
Great as it was seeing U2 for the first time the same cannot be said for Adam’s hair. It was bad, the type that you’d imagine not belonging to a head but more as a shock treatment demo and on the end of a pole in a neuro surgeon’s treatment room. It was a harsh [...]
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Blog, Interpersonal Skills, Motivation, PR, People, Places
On October - 26 - 2008
‘I peak early in the morning. it’s downhill from there.’ not my own quote but something Bono said in 2004.
I was up as usual at the crack of dawn, well actually it was a crack well before before dawn. I live in Tampa Bay on the breathtaking coastline that is the Gulf of Mexico so I [...]
On October - 24 - 2008
Onwards and upwards in the perpetual quest to borrow someones laptop and get something up here, there’s never having time to read other blogs and a mountain of catching up to do. I think I’m being tested, while I survive? Damn right I will. Oh but for the day I can curl up to my new laptop and [...]
categories: Archives, Artist Development, Creativity, Inspiration, Journey Thru The Past, Motivation, People, Places
