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Outside of selling merchandise and such, artists have never taken full advantage of the full power of their tours. Just last week, Bruce joined Dropkick Murphys via the Fenway Park JumboTron for a live stream on multiple platforms to benefit various pandemic-related causes.
Of course, we have seen a recent uptick in live concert streams at local and national levels on everything from YouTube to one of today's smaller live event platforms, StageIt. To this day, I spend a significant portion of my time on YouTube watching Springsteen live concert videos. Second, there were fan (and some official) recordings on YouTube ( GOOG, GOOGL ).
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Somebody at the concert would message somebody at home, who would update the thread with every song. So, we resorted to alternative methods to get our Springsteen fix.įirst, we would visit Springsteen message boards, where every night there was a show, there was a setlist thread. But limited time and resources prohibited most of us from seeing as many shows as we would have liked. When Bruce and The E Street Band toured, many rabid fans - myself included - would see multiple shows on a tour. To articulate my vision, I like to use my Bruce Springsteen fandom. Here's how I imagined it back when I was Marissa Mayer's biggest fan. And there's probably no company that could do a better job of pulling it off.
There's no better company to revive my idea than Apple ( AAPL). I'd like to think most executives live by those words as we morph into whatever the new normal will be. "No idea is a bad idea" should always be the mantra (especially when it's a good idea!). Other than one-off live concert streams, it wasn't a viable option.Įnter coronavirus and we live in a world where nothing makes financial sense and everything's on the table. In fact, Yahoo kicked the tires of a now-defunct live streaming company called iRocke.Įveryone I talked to in and out of the music industry told me I was nuts. At the time, I advocated hard for Yahoo to take the lead, as evidence emerged that former CEO Marissa Mayer was interested in the space. Several years ago, I beat the drum for live concert streaming.
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