Posted on 03/06/2018 9:24:38 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Talk about the perfect coda: Tower Records founder Russ Solomon died with a drink in his hand and a smart-aleck remark on his lips.
The swashbuckling, visionary entrepreneur who built a global retailing empire and the most famous company in Sacramento history died Sunday night of an apparent heart attack. He was 92.
Solomon was watching the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night at his Sacramento-area home when he was stricken, said his son, Michael Solomon, the former chief executive of Tower.
"Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to refill his whiskey," Solomon said. When she returned, he had died.
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I guess there are worse ways to go. + for glass of whiskey in hand. - for watching the Oscars.
Oscars so bad it killed him. Surely the drink didn’t.
So, it was suicide? Oscars drive people to drink themselves to death? No doubt the oscars or the booze will NOT be blamed.
Yet another reason to not watch the oscars.
Oscars would gag a blow fly.
Worst. Oscars. Ever.
Who had the bad dress, shame her for killing this 92 year old.
Bored to death no doubt.
Boston had a great Tower Records store back in the day, right next to Berklee College of Music. Spent a lot of time there. Good times.
I miss the old Tower Records stores. Then again, I miss mass market music that’s actually worth listening to, which went the way of the dinosaur along about the time that Tower Records did.
Drinking whiskey isn’t a bad way to go. Watching the Oscars, not so good.
Head exploded from cognitive dissonance.
Whatever happened to record stores?
Yes I know CDs replaced vinyl years ago. But there was a time when these record stores were still around but we’re selling mostly CDs after the decline of vinyl records.
Does everyone just download music off the internet nowadays?
He was probably talking about either Lindsey Vonn, a girl singer called St. Vincent, or actress Blanca Blanco.
All three had sort of strange outfits.
Not me - I still spin the vinyl discs.
There is an interesting bit in the movie “The Social Network” about the beginnings of Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg and his business partner (forget the name, played by Andrew Garfield) are starting to take off and they are invited to lunch by Sean Parker, a young entrepreneur who started Napster. Played by Justin Timberlake.
Zuckerberg and Parker instantly connect, but business partner Garfield does not like Parker at all and they continually jab at each other over dinner.
At one point, Parker tells the story of Napster, the lawsuits, and judgment against him and notes that in the end, “We won”.
Garfield says, “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You won? The judgment was against you. You owed millions of dollars. How, exactly, did Napster win?”
Parker says, “When was the last time you were in a Tower Records?”
Streaming killed music on physical media. Napster won. At least the business model won. That means iTunes won because they followed the model and avoided lawsuits.
I buy everything off the internet.
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