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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Bob Left Sets. I have a new podcast

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Speaker 1: on tune in. The goal is to titilate and inform

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Speaker 1: you simultaneously with topics about the music business, the Internet,

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Speaker 1: in the world at large. I guarantee you it will

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Speaker 1: be intriguing, whether you agree with me or not. Tune

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Speaker 1: in and find out. The first episode involves a conversation

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Speaker 1: with John Boyle, a kingpin and insomniac, the great electronic

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Speaker 1: music promoter. We get into his background and first and

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Speaker 1: for most my background, so you can learn a little

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Speaker 1: bit about me. John. Hi, Bob, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for having me. This is the beginning of the of

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Speaker 1: the Left Sets letter. Yes, so I went to see

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Speaker 1: a job counselor. My shrink said to do it. I

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Speaker 1: wrote essays and I got back in touch with the

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Speaker 1: fact I love to write, and I wrote. I said

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Speaker 1: something to magazines. When the rejections came back, said wait

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Speaker 1: a second, Wait a second, this is just like the

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Speaker 1: music business. You have to know these people. And I'm

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Speaker 1: reading all board and I'm ready to go. This is terrible.

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Speaker 1: I could do a better job than this. I didn't

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Speaker 1: have a computer at the time, and then I went

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Speaker 1: out and charged up five grand worth of computer equipment,

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Speaker 1: and I started this newsletter in the fall of eighty six.

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Speaker 1: I said, three thousand copies three times from a directory.

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Speaker 1: I got the addresses from the Yellow Pages of Rock

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Speaker 1: And I was really doing it just to get into

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Speaker 1: the job in the music business. I didn't think it

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Speaker 1: would be successful. All right, Bob, So why the funk

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Speaker 1: are you doing this? Lot's an interesting question. Now, this

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Speaker 1: is guy David Dorn, who's a big wig at Apple Music. Now,

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Speaker 1: he tracked me down about doing this podcast for Rhino

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Speaker 1: was two thousand five, and I did it all the

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Speaker 1: way to remember this, all the way to the end

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Speaker 1: of two thousand nine. That podcast was about talking about records.

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Speaker 1: I got emailed for years after it stopped. People would

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Speaker 1: want to hear that again. So I'm gonna give you

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Speaker 1: the real, real story. Yeah yeah, So in any event,

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Speaker 1: that ended, podcast went and then then what came back up?

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Speaker 1: And everybody has a podcast and Howard Stern is giving

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Speaker 1: them ship, everybody can broadcast, etcetera. And it's like, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to write a novel. That's not what I do.

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Speaker 1: My thing is immediate. People say write a book, say

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a year or two to write a

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Speaker 1: book that's gonna reach a tenth of the people that

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Speaker 1: I normally reach. That's not what I'm gonna do in

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Speaker 1: the full. Two years ago, I lost my two big

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Speaker 1: paying gigs. I had a column and Variety, and I

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Speaker 1: had these Spotify playlists I was doing for Rhino. Rhino

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Speaker 1: totally redid their thing. Variety is a much deeper story.

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Speaker 1: But I lost them both in a week and I'd

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Speaker 1: saved a lot of money. But it's through me. I

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Speaker 1: hate to admit it. It's like a breakup for me.

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Speaker 1: It takes a long time for me to recover from these.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to get over. And I'll also admit since

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Speaker 1: I turned sixty really fucked me up. You know everybody's

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Speaker 1: saying sixties to do fifty new for you, that's horseship.

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Speaker 1: Sixty is sixty because the first you want to be remembered.

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Speaker 1: Then you realize nobody's gonna be remembered, so it frees

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Speaker 1: you up to do different things. I was on the

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Speaker 1: Recode podcast and I knew I killed some guy tracked

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Speaker 1: me down this craziest really guy had the third biggest

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel if you discount Vivo, and he wanted to

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Speaker 1: do a podcast, and I liked that he was young,

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Speaker 1: and I said, well, maybe I'll take a flyer. Then

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Speaker 1: Irving as Off said a big radio chain was interested.

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Speaker 1: We were at paper. I was gonna do with the

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Speaker 1: big radio chain, and then the guy who is head

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Speaker 1: of tune in track me down and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: and I said, you literally have to get on it

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Speaker 1: right away. I mean, I'm literally the contracts are going

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Speaker 1: back and forth. I liked once again that he was

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Speaker 1: from the New world. I was brought up in a

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Speaker 1: family where they told me I was a ship head.

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Speaker 1: My mother would literally say, well, who are you? Why

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Speaker 1: would they listen to you? So I realized, well, if

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Speaker 1: I'm good on these other things, I need to give

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Speaker 1: it a shot. And also I realized there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of people I do want to talk to which

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Speaker 1: has a different flavor from writing right, and you have

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Speaker 1: exactly like I'm going to talk to Nathan Hubbard who

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Speaker 1: ran Ticketmaster and is in the ticketing sphere, and there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of creative people. You're gonna get them all, dude.

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Speaker 1: But as I say, I like to get someone's story.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to just hear the hype. So I

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Speaker 1: look forward to that the podcast. My goal is to

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Speaker 1: make your life more interesting. That's what I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: do here on my new podcast on tune in. So

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Speaker 1: search left sets on your tune in app and go

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Speaker 1: down the rabbit hole with me. As my father would say,

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Speaker 1: that's l E like Edward F. Like Franks, like Sam E,

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Speaker 1: like Edward T, like tom Z, like Zebra. You can

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Speaker 1: imagine what it's like going through life with a name

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Speaker 1: like that. I want to give you information and entertain

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Speaker 1: you simultaneously. In a world full of clutter. I hope

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Speaker 1: to rise above h