I posted the last video for the music business course. Shared three stories which became three riddles. The story of the fictitious band The Obvious which pop music journalist Laura Lind sent all the Toronto based record companies once upon a time. All but one wrote back something complimentary about the band’s music though the music was a blank cassette. That was riddle number one. Why do you think that was, I asked them? The second was Edie Brickell’s management rejecting the record I produced of her with Ron Sexsmith, Don Kerr, Hugh Phillips, Wayne Cass, Sarah McElcheran and Jeff Burke. They said it sounded inferior to things done in Los Angeles. Maybe it was but the recording studio was pretty significant for making records that did in fact do well, as if it is about the studio but if it was Mississauga’s Metalworks (where Guns n’ Roses just recorded part of their 2cnd album) as well as L. Stu Young engineering who later won Juno awards for his work w Prince….inferior to things done in Los Angeles or was there something threatening about her having a good time with these Canadians? That was riddle number two. The third story was CBC giving me a blank checque to buy equipment thirty years ago to compose a sitcom. It was an amazing situation and when I went to Saved By Technology to buy that gear, the salesman wouldn’t serve me. Seemed to me he deduced I was a broke guy in t-shirt and army pants, a waste of time to talk to. But I don’t know for sure. Usually I would have gone to Long and McQuade but back then they did not sell Macs and I thought composers need Macs. So riddle number three was what to do?