I miss Island Records but I don’t miss record companies, Island was in a class of it’s own. Its a tough one to describe, you really did have to be there. Now I’m standing from the rooftops and shouting, ‘I was there, tough luck if you weren’t!’
My friend Neil met up with Chris Blackwell, Island [...]
Archive for the ‘Risk’ Category
On November - 15 - 2008
categories: Archives, Creativity, Insights Collection, Journey Thru The Past, People, Places, Risk, View from the "Engine Room"
On October - 28 - 2008
Today the artists are doing what the record companies can longer do , or have no desire to do, build careers. It involves work, hard work by dedicated people and there used to be a word for it, artist development.(OK two words) But you still never hear it mentioned anymore by record companies. It gave [...]
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 [...]
