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Nov 24, 20167 min read
DO THE MAJOR MUSIC COMPANIES CARE MORE ABOUT FEATHERING THEIR OWN NESTS THAN CATERING TO MUSIC FANS?
By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk It appears that the last post about all the shenanigans played out using the mantra that “China is potentially...
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Nov 22, 20166 min read
THE HONG KONG MUSIC INDUSTRY: WHY IT HAS NEVER GONE ANYWHERE
By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk To understand the current state of the Hong Kong music industry today- pretty much dead and buried- there’s a...
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Nov 17, 20164 min read
THANK YOU, LEON RUSSELL
By Hans Ebert In the space of two short days, we lost Leonard Cohen and Leon Russell. The curse of 2016 struck again robbing the world of...
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Nov 14, 20166 min read
WHY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEEDS TO BE TRUMPED
By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk So, you’ve recorded some songs. Great. Creative outlets always lead one away from darkness and into some form...
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Nov 5, 20168 min read
MUSIC AND THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
By Hans Ebert It’s reached a point where it’s not even a case of Them versus Us. It’s finally come around to how to get around legalese...
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Oct 30, 20166 min read
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND THE NEED FOR AN EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF POWER
By Hans Ebert Often- extremely often- one wonders if artists really know what’s happening to their music, and, more often than not, why...
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Oct 22, 20162 min read
HOW A “NORTH WIND” AND WHITEMOOR BLEW THIS WAY
By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk It would be too easy to say that one could hear Sting recording the song. But, often, the problem is trying to...
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Oct 21, 20167 min read
THE RISE AND RISE OF THE STUPID PEOPLE
By Hans Ebert “There’s something happening, but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mister Jones?” Dylan sang those lines years ago...
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Oct 19, 20164 min read
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH
By Hans Ebert The grass is always greener on the other side. That’s the thinking anyway when that restless heart takes over and impulsive...
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Oct 10, 20164 min read
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, JOHN LENNON, PETER SELLERS, AND WHAT WOULD THEY MAKE OF CROOKED HILLARY AND
By Hans Ebert Depending on where you are in the world, today, October 9, would have been John Lennon’s 76th birthday. Actor Peter...
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Oct 8, 20166 min read
SO THEY SAY IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY
By Hans Ebert It was my birthday yesterday, and as usual, she called to wish me Happy Birthday. But did she really mean it? You tend to...
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Sep 30, 20166 min read
ROLLING STONE IN ASIA: IS IT HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION?
By Hans Ebert Back in the day- and these days, more and more of us are going back to those days because, well, it was where everything...
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Sep 27, 20161 min read
LET ME TAKE YOU BACK WHERE I CAME FROM: BOB DYLAN
By Hans Ebert http://youtu.be/_uYQMRayIuU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xEpIgFAPGQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJWWEjyqI68 The Bob...
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Sep 21, 201610 min read
OPENING THE DOOR TO SUITE 1616
By Hans Ebert https://youtu.be/_uYQMRayIuU “Aiiyah, I know Mr Hans. Not like before. Very much boring.” It was a longtime staffer at the...
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Sep 17, 20165 min read
BACK TO THE BASICS
By Hans Ebert It’s the technique not the idea. It’s something my mentor in advertising- Keith Reinhard- used to make all his creative...
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Sep 11, 20165 min read
HOW GOOD NEW MUSIC CAN MAKE ITSELF HEARD AMIDST THE NEGATIVITY OF HONG KONG
By Hans Ebert It’s just not happening, is it? The more you leave Hong Kong and the more you get out there and meet and listen to bands...
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Sep 5, 20161 min read
LET ME TAKE YOU BACK WHERE I CAME FROM: 10 OF THE BEST FROM DON HENLEY
By Hans Ebert http://youtu.be/_uYQMRayIuU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR8cvRgW3wk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdsWuZIFhU...
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Sep 4, 20164 min read
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND ITS OWN HIDDEN AGENDAS
By Hans Ebert As with anything it doesn’t understand, the Hong Kong government either ignores it, or else places various stumbling blocks...
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Sep 4, 20167 min read
THE TECHNIQUE IS NOT THE IDEA AND WHAT HAPPENED TO A MORE SIMPLE LIFE?
By Hans Ebert It’s just not good enough. Nothing’s any longer good enough. Even most women are no longer good enough. Neither is anything...
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Sep 1, 20161 min read
LET ME TAKE YOU BACK WHERE I CAME FROM: TEN OF THE BEST FROM THE HOLLIES
By Hans Ebert http://youtu.be/_uYQMRayIuU Graham Nash on the end of his marriage, why he's not ruling out CSNY activity and more...
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