“Wasn’t it all so gloriously simple back when people listened to top 40 radio and obediently paid $20 for discs at record store chains? Labels set the deal terms for artists; managers handled the “biz”; the touring circuits were maintained by well-mannered warlords that politely divvied up the venues; and everyone had their place in the pond,” Patrick Faucher writes for CNET News.
“So where did it all go wrong with the music business? Somehow, the pond became stagnant over time, mucked up with greed, laziness, contempt and excess. People got bored with music. Then, someone threw a rock into the middle of it called “The Internet” and nothing will ever be the same. Today, anyone can hum a tune, mix it with a rhythm track and some samples on their Mac at home, put it up on MySpace, and end up with a publishing deal from Moby who will then sell it to the next Superbowl sponsor,” Faucher writes.
Faucher writes, “The labels–or their successors–need to get down to sea level, pick up an oar, and help row with the artist into this new ocean of opportunity.”
Interesting full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bev M.” for the heads up.]
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C
My Ric never sounded like that (all passive, though). Had a (screaming) fast neck on it…..
Too bad a friend I loaned it to pawned it for crank.
Talk about screaming fast.
I was screaming
He was running…
I guess I swim in very different circles. I don’t see music dying as an art form in any way shape or form. The Internet has opened up the floodgates of people who, for one reason or another, couldn’t get past the barriers to entry set up by the old music business. That means there’s room again for the weekend musicians, the garage bands, and so forth, and that in turn propels the revitalization of the local music scene. In my state, local music is fairly big and it always has been as long as I’ve been alive.
See that’s the great thing about technology — it makes room at the table for the professional, the talented, and the semi-talented, instead of merely reserving a chair for the virtuouso.
The answer, as always, is deregulation. Make low-power FM legal. Allow pirate radio stations. Reduce the number of laws and then pounce on anyone who violates them.
@ TT
I’ve never had a Ricy bass, but the pride of my collection is still my 370/12 Fireglo. I would so much rather be playing it than listening to this thick Indian accent in Vista trainig.
Man, that Agnetha Fältskog is hot! And ABBA was a great band. I bet they paid more tax than most bands will ever make. Almost as creative but with a smaller market is the Spanish group La Oreja de Van Gogh. Great artists don’t need much industry support, especially nowadays.
Chrissy
I find that hard to believe……….
…that there is an Indian teaching a tech class…
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Hey, I’ve got nothing against Indian tech instructors. But fercrissakes, I’m sitting about 10 miles from the Redmond campus at the moment. Couldn’t they just send someone over? 520, baby, takes you right over here.
We’re talking about Create Process vs. Shell Executable now. I’m having more fun than a trip to the dentist.
Thank Metallica, they started all this shit. Nobody had heard of Napster till those greedy pricks blew the whistle. And what happened, dozens if not hundreds of mp3 P2P networks sprung up. Thanks guys, I have all your albums, but I don’t listen to them much. Thank God I didn’t pay for them.
Yeah, TowerTone. Shouldn’t he be a surgeon?
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He must have really screwed up.
Pete, I’m not sure I get your point. Artist should be paid for their content, just not excessively.
Metallica’s music should not be paid for. Or listened to.
2. You know, I’m not sure. It certainly have a nice growl to it. Did he use a Rick? Kinda sounds like one.
If it isn’t a keyboard I could believe it’s a Rick. My 4001 cuts through the higher frequencies but can still dig pretty deep unlike any other bass. Didn’t Electro Harmonix have a box called “Bass Balls” that had that funky phasor/envelope/distortion sound ?
@Towertone
“I find it hard to believe…
…that there is an Indian teaching a tech class… “
Why is that Towertone? Are you now adding rascism to your list of ugly characteristics?
Building a studio costs lot of money, so 1 hour in a studio usually costs a fortune. You have your own studio? Well then you don’t need those loan-shark-type-record-company-dinosaurs fattening their pockets.
Ice Cube said it so clear: Record company’s the pimp, artist is the ho’ and the stage is the corner.
hey Tone, watch it – Mom’s back…
Stephen
Before you go on another talkabout, matey, think about this.
He is TEACHING, so apparently he is INTELLIGENT.
There are many, many, Indians in technology fields in America.
That was the jist of the HUMOR, which elitist don’t have any sense of.
Like Thorin suggested, many doctors are Indian, also.
So if I am making light of the fact that so many Indians are successful,
I would think it would NOT be considered racism, depending on your definition of it.
Your impliction that it is racist is WAY out of line, which shows once again, you don’t look at facts, you just try to bend words to your advantage.
Now do you feel your comments were constuctive in any way?
I doubt ANYONE else does.
It doesn’t work with me.
Yikes-
yeah, plus she’s hung over and on the rag…
‘Exactly, and these days, the DJs are the stars. Not that I have anything against DJs, I know quite a few in this town. But the kids have no idea who actually produces the music they hear at parties, they only know who spins it. Actual musicianship has become almost a novelty in many circles.’
No kidding! I’ve been going to see bands play for a couple of decades now and I’m consistently shocked and awed that someone can bgain notoriety for basically playing someone else’s records (though that’s pretty broad as generalizations go-I know there are some talented DJs out there). But seriously. The DJ used to be the faceless guy playing records before the band came on. What a weird evolution.
Also, it’s true about the sheet music! People used to enjoy songs by doing their own renditions of them once upon a time, before technology allowed one to turn on the radio or pop in an album, it didn’t amtter if you ‘could’ sing, everybody did. And look at how popular things like karaoke are nowadays . . . methinks people are ready to participate again.
Let’s get back to the music, man. What I would like everyone to do right now is to listen to a 4001 growl.
Please play Roundabout by Yes at an ear-splitting volume.
-c
@Towertone
Yep, sounds rascist to me…
Your rebuttal is, as ever, unconvincing…
@yikes
Are you condoning rascism? Do you have something against Indians too? Or are you just Towertone up to his usual tricks of making posts to support himself when he, inevitably, gets himself into trouble by revealing his unsavoury attitudes…
And, as ever, when he runs out of arguments (which is immediately) he turns to juvenile personal insults.
Chris Squire, now there is someone who can play a Ric.
Stephen
No, it isn’t racial.
You are merely looking for another fight, since you have yet to get the best of me.
Go crash someone elses’ party.
Word. Chillax, yo?
no, sydney – I would never condone “rascism”
I think that rascals everywhere deserve the same shot as anybody else.
Chrissy
Here is one to try
Joni Mitchell’s “Shadows and Lights” live album with Jaco on bass and Pat Methany on guitar, Lyle Mays on keys, Michael Brecker on sax, and another Weatherreport alumni, Don Alias, on percussion.
The whole album is tight, but the Amelia/Pat’s Solo/Hejira song cycle is heaven
Yikes
haven’t we met? your humor sounds…familiar.