Chris Willman Music WriterCAA partner and music division head Rob Light spoke with Variety as part of the cover story on the 25th anniversary of the changeover at the top of the agency.
Light was there when those seismic shifts of the mid-‘90s happened; his tenure with CAA goes back 36 years. But his mind is very much in the fraught present right now, with a concert business that’s in crisis, to risk understatement.
We spoke with him about the different turns the agent/musician relationship has taken this year and what it might look like to get back to normal after, as he puts it, “The hose gets turned back on.”LIGHT: If there’s a positive of this about touring, every record company, which used to think touring was just a small part of.
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