However, using the leverage you have in the industry to pressure artists into contracts under threat of blacklisting them from that industry leaves few options for the artists. Again, too complex for tweets, but basically artists get told to jump through hoops or fuck right off.

But I guess it's all about who you know, not how well you do it.

Some new shit soundcloud.com/theuglybeatle/…

open.spotify.com/track/1bPUK3zB…

Anybody who's been in the drug scene - it's not something you can go on and on doing. It's like drink or anything, you've got to come to terms with it, like too much food or too much anything. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do.

Of course Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Elon Musk (Tesla, PayPal), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), etc are all very happy with the current structure, why change it?

I have a good intuition, which has saved me from many a disaster. I just have to rely on my intuition to get out of this confusion.

13 years of the fishes. It was right around this time in 2009 that we started jamming.

Unstrung

On this day in history: 1693: French monk Dom Perignon invents champagne 1901: Musician Louis Armstrong is born 2005: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres on FX!

I sat in a restaurant in Spain and the violinist insisted on playing ‘Yesterday’ right in my ear. Then he asked me to sign the violin. I didn’t know what to say so I said, ‘OK’ and I signed it, and Yoko signed it. One day he’s going to find out that Paul wrote it.

"Low" from the album "Ashes of the Phoenix" Listen to the full song here: open.spotify.com/track/0Aty6HYm…

That's honestly pretty impressive seeing as I recorded all the music on one track with a $20 microphone over a decade ago. Never really promoted it either. Whoever is listening, thanks. You should probably seek help.