{"id":7836,"date":"2016-09-27T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T06:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2016-10-08T23:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T06:47:30","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-tower-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/27\/the-rise-and-fall-of-tower-records\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of Tower Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/the_rise_and_fall_of_tower_records_and_how_the_music_industry_screwed_the_p\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from\u00a0Dangerous Minds<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>THE RISE AND FALL OF TOWER RECORDS AND HOW THE MUSIC INDUSTRY SCREWED THE POOCH IN THE LATE \u201890S<\/h1>\n<p>by Christopher Bickel<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DAepjF6_N68\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just finished watching Colin Hanks\u2019 impressive documentary on the rise and fall of Tower Records, titled\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2bs718B\" target=\"_blank\">All Things Must Pass<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019d recommend the film to anyone who was ever a frequent Tower shopper, I\u2019d say it\u2019s a\u00a0<em>must-see<\/em>\u00a0for anyone who has ever worked music retail, particularly those who worked during the late \u201890s to early \u20182000s, which saw the decline of physical media sales.<\/p>\n<p>The film centers on Russ Solomon who founded Tower Records in Sacramento, California in 1960, and traces the path he took in building the Tower brand from a single \u201csupermarket of music\u201d to a worldwide mega-chain. The documentary does a fair job at assessing the \u201cperfect storm\u201d that caused the ultimate collapse of the chain, culminating with the closing of their last company-owned store in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Interviews with David Geffen, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and the obligatory Dave Grohl documentary appearance (is there some rule that says Grohl\u00a0<em>has<\/em>\u00a0to appear in EVERY music-related documentary?) give some insight to Tower\u2019s cultural significance, rounding out the insider interviews with Tower\u2019s top brass who detail the company\u2019s rise and fall.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/the_rise_and_fall_of_tower_records_and_how_the_music_industry_screwed_the_p\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Dangerous Minds<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from\u00a0Dangerous Minds THE RISE AND FALL OF TOWER RECORDS AND HOW THE MUSIC INDUSTRY SCREWED THE POOCH IN THE LATE \u201890S by Christopher Bickel I just finished watching Colin Hanks\u2019 impressive documentary on the rise and fall of Tower Records, titled\u00a0All Things Must Pass. While I\u2019d recommend the film to anyone who was ever a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}