This latest podcast is special because it harkens back to 2000 when I wrote a paper in law school about the use of securitizations to disrupt the music industry.  

I mused about the disruption of the music industry and the demise of the traditional way of doing business.  I wasn’t far off!

To help think about this, I went to the source, DAVID PULLMAN.

David is a pioneer in music industry finance. His firm THE PULLMAN GROUP covers many aspects of the music industry including publishing and mechanical rights, royalty management, loans, advances and securitizations.

We get into:

(For some context into the Bowie Bond and the concept of Intellectual Property Securitization, here is Quick Synopsis from INVESTOPEDIA and a Summary from WIKIPEDIA)

We also talk a lot about what it was like to work with someone like David Bowie. Bowie himself was not only the driver of musical trends, he was a savvy businessman, futurist and technologist as well.

His vision for the scope and power of the internet and its impact on the accessibility of music and the music business itself was extraordinary. Listen here:

Finally, and some of the issues with future music financings and his thoughts on the impact of NFT’s.

Without further ado . . .

DAVID PULLMAN.

As an extra bonus . . . .

Here is a 5 minute outtake of the podcast with David Pullman- in this morsel, we talk about his experience with David Bowie and how the song “Fame” represented a major pivot in Bowie’s career AND Pullman’s!

Finally, here is a list of the 2022 GRAMMY NOMINEES:

https://nypost.com/2021/11/23/grammy-nominations-2022-full-list-of-nominees-new-categories/