This was the voicemail I got last Thursday morning when I came in the office.

I wasn’t sure why he would be calling.  Maybe it was because the Eagles or Van Halen wanted to do a cruise?  Or maybe Jimmy Buffet or any of the other Superstar acts he manages were interested in doing a cruise with Sixthman?  I returned the voice mail and later that afternoon my phone rang again and when I picked up, the same voice from the night before said, “ I have Irving Azoff calling for you.”  I said hello and Irving asked how I was doing; we have met once and I was aware that he really liked our concept.  We chatted briefly and he said I only have a minute before my first “Earnings Call” with Wall Street regarding earnings for his company, Ticketmaster.

I asked what I could help him with and he said he just wanted to thank me for my blog I wrote a couple weeks ago.  He said he thought my position was dead on and he hoped he could convince everyone involved to feel the same way.  He then asked if I had any ideas on how we could put a cruise together for Neil Diamond.  I said we’d get our thoughts together and wished him luck with the merger.  His assistant stepped in and said it’s time for your next call so he said he’d look forward to hearing from me.

It was good to know that there is a common attitude shared by someone who can impact change, someone took the time to forward this blog to him, and he actually read it!

So thanks to whoever shared it with him.

Andy