The Kobalt Sale
It only took Sony two decades to wake up. Kobalt was built to be sold. Haven’t we seen this same paradigm over the last two decades in the internet sphere?…
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Tesla/Volkswagen
“The Harsh Reality About the Music Business, and a Pantomime Led By Clueless Self-Regarders”: https://bit.ly/2LMLAW6 Ingham is angry, and it has improved his usually dry writing. Tim is sick and…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Tesla’s Brian Wheat
Brian Wheat is the bassist for Tesla and he has a new autobiography, “Son of a Milkman.” We chart the arc of Tesla’s career, from fame to breakup to today,…
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Quittin’ Time
It’s track #30. I was listening to podcasts looking for answers, trying to understand what is going on in this nation of ours, where we’re headed, but despite all the…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Michael Des Barres
A descendant of royalty, Michael Des Barres has had more record deals than seemingly anybody, from Silverhead to Detective to Chequered Past to solo, as well as acting in “MacGyver”…
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Phil Spector
I was just a little too young. I was aware of Spector’s pre-Beatle hits, but they were somewhere in the back of my brain, they were not foreground in my…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Dion
We discuss Mr. DiMucci’s early years in the Bronx, getting a record deal, assembling the Belmonts, going on the road, getting on and off drugs, AA, his life in Miami,…
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Op-Ed: Streaming
My friend Ralph sends me a cornucopia of newspaper clippings from the U.K. on a regular basis. To a great degree they’re obituaries, or a spotlight on a minor figure…
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The Bob Lefsetz Podcast: Todd Rundgren
We cover a lot of ground here. We start with an investigation into Todd’s imminent virtual tour, and then move on to such topics as his engineering of “Stage Fright,”…
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