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RockGeek Fact of the Day #926

Happy 67th Birthday to John Kay – frontman for Steppenwolf. Their biggest hit, “Born to Be Wild” was originally written as a ballad. Steppenwolf’s sped-up 1967 arrangement was the one that became a hit and helped the band sell over 25 million records worldwide.

Exit Strategy

In the process of starting D.I.-Why, I realized that bringing on investors might not be a bad idea. If you take a look at the companies shaping “the new music industry,” investors are heavily financing their trek toward profitability. Why should my baby be any different? To get things rolling, I put together a deck. A PowerPoint deck. A bunch of slides telling you why my company is...

Foursquare Etiquette

I resisted writing this post for a while, because I’m either gonna piss off a few people or (at best?) come off sounding all snooty and elitist. Finally though, that moment has passed. Foursquare is a cool way to share information about where you’re at, offer cool tips, and play inside some marketing guy’s dream of social commentary. But then there are those who feel compelled...

Professionalism

It's really not something that needs to be discussed, or at least that's what I thought. When you're working with a client/artist/musician/band/whatever, the asumption is that everyone involved will conduct themselves in a professional manner. Unfortunately, at 3 AM, this isn't what happened...

If everybody is, then nobody is…

Business school grads make millions preying upon a ready group of suckers who sang lead in their high school musicals, but a decade later they're just bartenders working for tips wondering why fame and fortune hasn't smiled on them.

5 Words to Build a Career On

Looking back, I don't think I said much of anything for the first 6 months I was working in radio. But I absorbed everything. Over time I learned how to be persuasive without being a bully. I learned when the end result often meant sacrificing what you thought (at the time) was totally essential.

The hardest lesson was learning to let others do their job so you can do yours.

Music’s biggest night?

Dear Neil:

I spent most of yesterday celebrating “Music’s Biggest Night” with a few thousand of my closest friends. As a member of the Recording Academy, it’s a singular thrill to be able to personally witness the hype machine ramp things up into frenzy of klieg lights and chaos.

But this year, moreso than the others, was it really music’s biggest night?

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