LouieB

Actually thanks Jules for being so forthcoming for a change. It sounds like we should be buying stock in your company at this point. You publically traded? LouieB

Emily could have gotten 11000 songs perfectly legally by borrowing files from friends. No one plays for every song they listen to. Vic Chestnutt had a history of depression and while I feel badly he was in tough financial shape he may not have killed himself because people didn't buy enough of his music. I don't think people should steal music, but obtaining music has never been that black and white. Listening to the radio and recording off that, sharing records with friends on tape, etc, have been done for years. Has file sharing hurt musicians? Absolutely. Does everyone share music

I believe I am older but not by much. LouieB

Bradbury was also one of my faves as a youngster. Read The Illistrated Man, Marsian Chronicles, Fairenheit 451, Something Wicked this way comes, etc. He had an article in the New Yorker just a few short weeks ago. He was also raised in Waukegan, IL, just north of Chicago. Was there a couple times this week and sadly there is no statue of him there. There should be. LouieB

Back at ya Bob. Looking forward to some summer concert events with you this summer. I only play a commie pinko in the 2012 president thread to irritate the right wingers. Meanwhile I have met dozens of VCers. I always lead with asking if someone is a viaChicagoan when meeting Wilco fans. I count several as friends from various parts of Chicago, the US and even other countries. I am also about the oldest VCer. LouieB

Just for the record (whatever the hell that is) I don't at all believe that all employers don't care about their employees. But there is a decidedly anti-union bent in the country at the moment and so why not push back against that. Why not push back against the idea (propigated by he presumptive Republican nominee) that public service unions need to be busted since most private sector unions are already busted (this is not even in dispute, only 6% of private sector workers are in unions) and that we need to bust down the overwhelming benefits public workers get too. Hell just do away with

Actually it is pretty humorous to watch both candidates attack each other about jobs. The President of the US of A has very little control over the economy. They can try and get the govermnent to be the employer of last resort to jump start stuff, but clearly even monitary policy doesn't help all that much. Intesest rates have been low for years and that isn't helping. This is a complex issue with clearly NO easy answers. LouieB

So the only dialogue that goes on regarding this subject is here? I thought we were tlaking about the world outside of VC. Hey Jules created 100 jobs. Good work. People are asking for details and he doesn't want to give them? Okay. The entire thing about "job creators" is a smoke screen and at this point everyone knows it. It is the same old trickle down economics that has been at issue since the Reagan administration, just a different term. Some people are going to defend it and some are going to attack it. How is that somehow off limits? There is going to be an eternal conflict on

Okay so maybe he DOES have some hip cachet. Who would have thought that? LouieB

I'll meet you in a pub sometime or in line for Wilco. I have done both and had fun both places, although I have frozen waiting for Wilco a few times. LouieB

This is true, but being a member of the Wrecking Crew did not make him a zillion dollars, singing Jimmy Webb and John Hartford and other songs for Capital made him a star. That's his real claim to fame. I was pretty much kidding about Kenny. Mostly it was a commentary on how if you are an old radio star and hook up with a big name producer in your old age, it really helps. (Then again it didn't really help Neil Diamond that much.) LouieB

Smug or not (not so much really), I was just pointing out that workers make stuff. Without workers nothing gets made (or done.) Simply the classic divide between labor and capital, nothing more. People who work get blamed for everything; they get blamed for NOT working, they get blamed for not being productive enough, they get blamed for asking for too many benefits and wages and decent working conditions, they get blamed for not buying enough, they get blamed for getting sick and old and needing to retire. The dialogue in this country is basically that those "job creators" are the only

At what point does Kenny Rogers get his late career "hip" bump?? I don't see it happening, but you never know. LouieB

Hey fine whatever. What did you "make": today? LouieB

Ya know Doug.....I agree. There are plenty of points of agreement between right and left if people just dropped the bullshit and got down to it. Real people are way more interesting and engaging than fake ones. LouieB

While Bob Welch may have become a bit of a footnote in Fleetwood Mac history, he helped turn them from a mostly blues based band to pop/vocal band and set the stage for them to make a gazillion dollars. LouieB

I keep stopping in this thread and I am always sorry I do. Perhaps gogo is right (although I respectufully disagree with her on this) that no one needs to be a real person if they so choose not to be. Having grown up before the internet, yet residing here for a good long time, I guess I should not be too surprised that some folks would rather be totally annonymous rather than forthcoming. So ultimately I understand that some folks think it is perfectly okay to toss out random opinions that htey never have to back up (along with plenty of conspiracy theories.) As I have said before, if Mi

What fun would that be for him to actually come out from behind the internet and be both honest and real? it is far more fun for him to be just a character (not unlike Sparky) and bait people and not be genuine. It would be nice to know what he REALLY does, but that might open him up to being thought of as a real person and that is probably way too threatening. So what WERE those jobs you created Jules?LouieB

Actually "workers" make stuff. People who own business just hire people to make stuff. The real job creators are the ones buying the goods and services. Meanwhile anyone can say anything on the internet and ask us to believe them. LouieB

A long career is a messy thing. He started out as member of the LA session "Wrecking Crew", had hit after hit, had a few messy marriages, some substance abuse issues, a variety of movie roles, a career that went downhill, and is now having a late career resurgence in part due to his condition. Most folks would totally write a guy like him off and perhaps for good reason. In recent years old recording artists get a fresh start, which is pretty nice thing, which some other artists in early times never got. That he is getting any love at all from younger fans is nothing short of a miracle for

Go into any used record store or resale shop and pick up his early Capital records for cheap. All of the early ones with the Jimmy Webb songs (such as Witchita Lineman) and other hits are fine. Obviously Gentle on My Mind written by John Hartford was a huge hit and a great song and made Hartford independently wealthy for his entire life. But it is easy to find is old records because he sold millions of them, so you should be able to find them for a couple bucks a piece on LP. Glenn Campbell's career arc from session guy to radio, TV, and movie star to lame MOR artist, down and out and ba

Lots of things are scams, but people do them and profit by them anyway. Hell if we did way with scams the entire economy would close up shop. LouieB

I got the cancellation notice too. Someone might want to check this with Saki. LouieB

As usual I agree. it must be economically profitable for someone though!!! More government subsidies? For sure. LouieB

Take your pick I guess. I don't know every farm/agribusiness subsidy out there, but i know there are lots. Ethanol is a slightly viable resource though, since I often put 10% of it in my car when I fill up most places in Illinois, this being a big ethanol.state. The general point is that government subsidies (not to mention tax breaks) are a regular part of many businesses (we didn't even mention healthcare.) Incidently this would also include the private not for private (and some for profit programs (such as charter schools) that provide all sorts of education, counseling, healthcare etc