Music for Profit

(This post is the first part of a series of posts regarding the business exchange of goods and services inside and outside of the music industry.)
One of the books I read as a child was a number of Aesop’s Fables, only instead of Aesop and a bunch of personified animals, it was a wise old [...]

(photo credit: San Diego Shooter)
If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, what would be your biggest regret?

Assume, of course, that in those moments before the flat face of inner city transit slaps you to the next intersection, you are blessed (or cursed) with the mental capacity to pontificate.

This is one of my favorite questions [...]

From The One Minute Manager to Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, it is written that there is only one rule in business. This one:
Wherever you look, in any industry, you’ll find that the first rule of business is to earn more than you spend.
I’ve seen many companies try to ignore this rule. In the [...]

My most notorious moment during my stint with Poland’s Idol was getting tackled by a big-boned teenage girl who wanted a kiss, outside of a big record store.
I recall it now because I was trying to think of all the times I felt something other than devotion and gratitude toward fans of my art. I [...]

There’s a famous recording studio near Berklee College of Music in Boston that, like most recording studios, has a nice mixing console. If you sit behind it, your eyes will scan the typical buttons and faders, until you come across a big red button with the label “SUCK.” The joke is that you could be trying to record a track from a Grammy-winning musician, but take after take just sounds awful. Before recording any more unsatisfactory garbage, it’s your responsibility to quickly check the SUCK button. It’s very possible that button accidentally was pressed several tracks ago, so disable it before you continue wasting the precious time you or the musician have left in this life.