Post by orioles70 on Mar 19, 2019 20:24:13 GMT
This guy was successful, loved music, wrote a book about the economics of the music business - and then suddenly call it quits and committed suicide : (
Too many sad songs?
Kind of a bummer, but I thought - maybe we need a thread on "Rockonomics". Why do some artists have so much success and other talented acts miss out? Idle Race couldn't buy a hit, and ELO started off slowly but then zoomed to the top echelons. Pugwash sales are always mired in the doldrums.
which successful artists are you amazed have any fans at all?
which unheard of acts deserve to be popular?
which ones have found innovative ways to make a living even though they never get any air time?
here's the article link and an excerpt:
<< Krueger also loved music, and he combined his two loves in a forthcoming book called Rockonomics. Furman recalled Krueger's excitement when he learned that Bob Dylan was Furman's neighbor growing up. "When Alan found that out he couldn't stop talking to me about it," Furman recalled.
One of Krueger's last speeches as CEA chair was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "I'm told that President Obama distributed Alan's speech, on rock economics as a metaphor for understanding what was happening in the broader economy, to the whole cabinet," said Summers. >>
www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/19/704675853/what-alan-krueger-taught-us
Too many sad songs?
Kind of a bummer, but I thought - maybe we need a thread on "Rockonomics". Why do some artists have so much success and other talented acts miss out? Idle Race couldn't buy a hit, and ELO started off slowly but then zoomed to the top echelons. Pugwash sales are always mired in the doldrums.
which successful artists are you amazed have any fans at all?
which unheard of acts deserve to be popular?
which ones have found innovative ways to make a living even though they never get any air time?
here's the article link and an excerpt:
<< Krueger also loved music, and he combined his two loves in a forthcoming book called Rockonomics. Furman recalled Krueger's excitement when he learned that Bob Dylan was Furman's neighbor growing up. "When Alan found that out he couldn't stop talking to me about it," Furman recalled.
One of Krueger's last speeches as CEA chair was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "I'm told that President Obama distributed Alan's speech, on rock economics as a metaphor for understanding what was happening in the broader economy, to the whole cabinet," said Summers. >>
www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/19/704675853/what-alan-krueger-taught-us
, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?