I enjoy debate and I like interacting with people I disagree with if the dialogue is thoughtful and intelligent. But the sad reality is that most debate that you will experience does not qualify as thoughtful or intelligent. There is little grounding in logic and truth even though the participants themselves may be thoughtful and intelligent. I […]
Category Archives: Thoughts
Honestly, this has been a brutal week. I should have several songs recorded by now for my new project but I don’t have any. There have been a few technical things that have ruined what I have done so I have to start over. In the meantime, I recorded this video to give you a bit of […]
Years ago, I read something about investing as a Christian that has stuck with me. There are two general rules that should guide our management of our assets. 1) Our investments should be active. We should not just be sitting on cash or other assets like a miser. 2) Our investments should be working for good. […]
When I was young, I practiced on an mid-upright Baldwin Hamilton piano that my parents bought for us. That piano was everywhere back then because it was sort of a happy medium between a spinet (an “upright” piano that was maybe only 4 feet tall) and a full upright which we all coveted but could […]
I know that many of you don’t really care about what I am going to write in this post but some of you will and maybe it will help you in some way. At any rate, I warned you that I was going to write about some studio stuff since I am knee deep in it […]
When musicians ask me for advice about marketing their music, I usually start with the same questions. 1) Are you on CDBaby? 2) Are you on Pandora? The reason I ask these questions is because of how music distribution works these days. We all know that selling physical CDs is largely a thing of the past. I […]
There is a joke in Nashville that people are going to start turning studios into houses. This of course is considered funny because it seems like every other house in Nashville either is a studio or has a studio in the basement. Even on the famed Music Row in Nashville, many of the studios are former […]
I am flying home at the moment from Los Angeles after spending some time at NAMM, a enormous music industry show, and my friends with Whisperings, a group of concert pianists and recording artists. Here are some thoughts I came away with. NAMM encompasses 1.5 million square feet of every music product you can imagine […]
As of this past week, I finished all the big stuff I have been working on for the year. The last three months have been brutal but now I am trying to relax a bit and am thinking about 2015. I want to talk about one of the things I have been thinking about: social […]
I wrote last week about Vitabase moving out of our warehouse and our decision to move out too. A big problem related to that is that we have been sharing employees with Vitabase for some time, and with them moving, we can’t do that anymore. Over the past six months, as I anticipated this coming, I have […]
I love business and I am glad I am often asked for business advice especially about internet retail. I got a request for advice earlier this week about a website and it prompted me to write this post because what I told him might be helpful to a lot of other people too. This post is going […]