After reading T Bone Burnett’s thoughts on digital music in my previous post, you can imagine that his talk raised some eyebrows.  At the end of the video clip below, you may hear something that sounds like all the air being sucked out of the room — that’s how it felt in Lohrfink Auditorium.

Yesterday, one of the presenters on “The Changing Nature of Artist Compensation” panel referred to him as “flippant”, while another offered a more balanced assessment: “T Bone said some wild things, and he said some very profound things.”