Bob Lefsetz
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Bob Lefsetz is an American music industry figure and author of the email newsletter and blog, the Lefsetz Letter. Based in Santa Monica, California, Lefsetz worked previously as an entertainment business attorney, majordomo of Sanctuary Music's American division and as a consultant to major record labels. Lefsetz deals with issues at the core of the music industry.
Themes explored in the Lefsetz Letter:
- The diminishing role of the major record labels in current recorded music and corresponding increasing influence and importance of grassroots artist activities such as live performances and direct online relationships with fans.
- The decline of physical musical formats (primarily the decline of CD sales as alternate online music services such as iTunes continue to flourish)
- The prevalence of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing as the primary source of digital music distribution
- The need for a legitimate and licensed Peer-to-Peer or similar distribution service to facilitate the next working business model for the music industry.
- Lefsetz's personal reflection on songs, songwriters, bands and industry insiders that have affected his unique and independent outlook of the music industry.
- Lefsetz's personal life: his wife, trips, vacations, youthful years driving across country, skiing, and so forth.
Lefsetz was publicly dressed down by singer Kid Rock in an email exchange that Lefsetz forwarded to readers on November 8, 2007, but has apparently chosen not to post to his online letter archive. In the exchange, Rock reacts to Lefsetz's cavalier "F**k Kid Rock" comment by threatening the industry gadfly with bodily harm and calling him "bitch boy."[1][2]
Lefsetz exchanged insults via e-mail with Kiss bassist Gene Simmons in March 2009. Simmons and Lefsetz were both keynote speakers at the Canadian Music Week conference. Lefsetz criticized Simmons' appearance as only self-promotional; Simmons launched Simmons Records with Universal Music Canada earlier in the year. Simmons responded by calling Lefsetz a "moron", and wrote, "I won’t stop telling you how great I am. Find someone else for that." The two debated in-person at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto.[3] [4]
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- ^ Thompson, Robert (March 13, 2009). "Simmons, Lefsetz To Debate At Canadian Music Week". Billboard.biz. Retrieved on March 14, 2009.
- ^ Video of Lefsetz in-discussion with Gene Simmons at Canadian Music Week, March 2009 [3]
- DuLac, Josh Freedom (March 27, 2008). "Rage Against The Machine". The Washington Post. Retrieved on May 23, 2008.
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