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| From | Michael Coxe <audities@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Lef Unsetz |
| Date | Mon, 26 May 2008 11:46:31 -0700 |
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But at least Pound wrote the Cantos. And composed music, and
was quite the musicologist. And a superior translator of other
poets into English. He just should have kept away from politics
and had more sex.
- Michael
ohn Micek wrote:
> I think what's most troublesome about him is the fact that, for all his
> blather about how the industry is changing, he's profoundly uninterested
> in new music of any kind. I can't tell you how many posts I've read
> recently that began "I don't want to hear your band," or "Don't tell me
> about your band ..."
>
> The funny thing is, his act is as old as the hills ... the cranky old
> guy complaining about the state of art. Ezra Pound started doing it
> first, and until he was consumed by the demons of anti-semitism and
> pro-Mussolini sympathy, he actually did it better. The tragedy of it was
> that it destroyed whatever good he had done beforehand. The same is
> pretty much true of Lefsetz. If you put theirs' and Pound's writing
> styles next to each other, the block caps and rant-y tone are exactly
> the same. But if you ask Lefsetz, he'll probably tell you he's
> channeling Lester Bangs, but the antecedents are the same.
>
> John Micek.
>
>
>
>
> On May 25, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Scotthomewood@cs.com wrote:
>
>> Lefsetz has always struck me as one of the most unsavvy music business
>> people
>> I have ever run across. Anyone who knows the least bit about music has
>> been
>> saying the same thing he's been blathering about for years (wow, music
>> business
>> is changing - people have been saying that since 1995) and, as someone
>> just
>> mentioned, he's not smart enough to offer any solutions or new
>> insights. I
>> can't believe he's a consultant and any label who wastes money using
>> him is simply
>> THROWING money DOWN THE DRAIN - as he would no doubt write.
>>
>> The Hall and Oates article is case in point. Not only does he
>> endlessly write
>> about nostalgia like H&O and The Eagles but his example of people
>> telling him
>> H&O were cheesy and now they're cool etc. Who is saying that stuff?
>> Who is
>> talking about Hall and Oates right now? WHY would they be talking
>> about Hall and
>> Oates right now? How does a Hall and Oates nostalgia show affect
>> Radiohead or
>> Duffy? It doesn't. Not at all. H&O are great artists, yes, but hardly
>> on the
>> tip of anyone's tongue these days. I guess he saw a show and decided
>> to turn
>> it into a diatribe about the music business. With caps and everything.
>>
>> Wait until I write about the Drifters and Coasters show I am seeing at a
>> casino next week. I wonder if Capitol will hire me to consult.
>>
>> Sheesh.
>>
>> Scott Homewood
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