[Fester Chugabrew]

Your comments are not only well-received, but especially appropriate. You did not just spit that out without thought.

Please allow me to respond accordingly. Beezwax Records has no business plan in place as yet. It will take at least a year, maybe more, to have one.

Yes, yours truly critiques the conduct of the recorded music business, not as a way to enrich himself, but as a way to connect the artist with their audience in a way the music industry has not understood since the inception of audio recording.

He also does so with a book in hand, written by a man who ran a preeminent jazz record label and who requested to lend his ears to our back catalog from 1997 to 2018.

There’s a lot going on here. Your comments serve further to solidify the efforts of Beezwax Records LLC to be a catalyst for change like the music lovers on this planet have yet to envision.

[Rockingham]

The customary business model for recorded music seems to me to be under considerable stress. Maybe Beezwax Records will be able to move from aspirations to a new business model that works organizationally and financially. There are great challenges though, not the least of which is the way that artists tend to get ground up by exploitative business types and ever changing consumer tastes.

There may be hope in the recent rise of TV script writers to become producers and show runners with creative control and a big share of the financial benefits. The result is superb shows like The Sopranos (David Chase), Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul (Vince Gilligan), and Yellowstone (Taylor Sheridan). That took decades to happen, with writer Roy Huggins and writer-producer Stephen J. Cannell pioneering the way.

Just as with actors, writer's agents played a key if little-heralded role in navigating the perils of the TV business. Who knows, but agents for musicians may also end up helping musicians and Beezwax Records crack the music business.