You (Should) Say Goodbye - I (Definitely) Say Hello

A short (ish) reminder of the ongoing and necessary shift from old marketing principles that evolved when the vendor was in charge to new principles - which focus on engagement and experience - because the customer is now in charge.


🔗 Coherence Is the New Moat

Another post restructure - and reissue.


🎵 Go Neil



🔗🎵 These 15 bands honestly sounded like nothing else on the planet

Not to my ears - in fact ten of them were are in my album collections.


You’ve probably already seen the video - or at least a still from it - but I just wanted to comment on the 🎵musical part - 🔗📼 just so good



Just Good Music

Reconnecting with my Just Good Music cofounder and introducing you to an awesome video from ‘Ren’. Truly stunning - and if there is a god - he is going to go far.



🎶 Apparently Vanilla Fudge could have been as big as Zeppelin and if not - certainly Purple.

Say what now? No they couldn’t. Listen to their stuff back in the day and then to early Purple and Zep. It’s clear where the talent is.

To riff on Rob Reiner’s mum …

“I’ll have what they’re having.”

And ‘they didn’t stay together’ is the excuse?

Neither did Purple and Zep - but a number of individuals in the two English bands went on to great success in solo careers.

Name me one member of Vanilla Fudge - and what was their best album.


🎶 Been a while since Lark’s Tongue were played through my speakers … and it remains just as big, extraordinary, relevant and engaging as I remember it.


🎶 Just discovered Jesse Wells

.. this just in from the #LivingUnderTheRockArchives


🎵 Public Service Broadcasting are just so so good.


🔗🎵 Finally, a New Idea in Rock and Roll - The Atlantic

I had a listen over the weekend. Not bad at all - and I am only 4 albums late


🎵 Paul Simon wrote The Sound of Silence nearly 60 years ago. Not as a hymn to peace, more a warning - about noise drowning out meaning. Yet here we are in 2025, trapped in the Noise Economy: dashboards buzzing, leaders performing, everyone talking, no one listening.

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🔗🎵 Guthrie 1

🔗🎵 Guthrie 2

🔗🎵 Guthrie 3

.. .Govan in case you need to know before watching a master in action.



🔗 🎵 Have I shared this before? I have? I don’t care.

Guthrie doing his thing. In five minutes unpacks why he must be one of the greats.