Personally, I unsubscribed from t<a href="http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2012/04/25/feel-like-a-rock-star/">he Lefsetz Letter just a few days ago but someone sent this my way</a>. 


<blockquote>Kenny Chesney is a Commodore 64. Or a Radio Shack TRS-80. Something impressive in its day but now almost completely forgotten.

Yes, despite all the hype, Kenny’s last stadium tour didn’t sell out, they gave away a ton of tickets. As for Tim McGraw…his career is as challenged as that of his wife, he’s on the verge of being a has-been, that’s why he and Kenny are going out together, they’re scared of doing it alone.

And they listen to the accountants and the lawyers and the program directors, to everyone but themselves.

Wait a minute, wasn’t being a rock star about doing it YOUR WAY? Doing something dangerous, taking a risk, wowing the public instead of celebrating their passive lives?

That’s how screwed up music is, it celebrates the audience’s lifestyle!

The lemmings who go to Kenny Chesney’s shows are not rock stars, believe me. Instead of thinking for themselves they’re beholden to Fox News and money-grubbing preachers.

Oh, get your knickers in a twist. Excoriate me for telling the truth.

That’s the problem in America, no one will speak the truth.

And the truth is modern country music is not. Neither modern nor country. And it’s being held hostage by a corporate, right wing hierarchy that truly abhors rock stars.

Thank god it’s a backwater. It means nothing outside the U.S. and I bet most of you reading this have never heard this lowest common denominator track.

But you should check it out. But only on an empty stomach. Otherwise you’ll toss your cookies.

Kenny! What happened to the man who cut "On The Coast Of Somewhere Beautiful" and "I Go Back"? Maybe instead of trying to placate stadiums you should go play clubs and get your groove back.</blockquote>

