Guy Smith | February 14, 2009
I hate A&R buyers, mainly because they are right.
Buyers shop for songs to sell recording artists. These folks are (typically) industry veterans with the psychological scars to prove it. They are intimate with a wide range of musical genre and can instantly connect a demo song to any number of artists who might [...]
Guy Smith | February 11, 2009
Fred Smith (no relation), the founder of Federal Express and the inventor of an entire industry, spoke at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club tonight. George Shultz — a man who held more secretary positions (Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State) in the U.S. government than Monica Lewinsky – sat attentively [...]
Guy Smith | February 8, 2009
During boom years promotion pimps bragged that California was the tenth largest economy in the world, eclipsing Italy, Spain, Mexico and the hyper wired nation of South Korea (seriously, you folks in South Korea need to put down your game controllers and get outdoors more often – you make Silicon Valley computer geeks look like [...]
Guy Smith | February 1, 2009
Two traits link the beautiful city of San Francisco and the power center that is Washington D.C. Those traits are rampant psychosis and yellow journalism.
Occasionally you can find both in one convenient package.
Modern Sodom’s scandal sheet is the San Francisco Chronicle (or the Chronic as we local observers of the dope smoking counter culture [...]
