Re: "Brave New World" (was: Re: The Police on Tour)

["aaron leese" <aaronleese@hotmail.com>]

Well said Richard...
Here's to that .......





>From: Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: "Brave New World" (was: Re: The Police on Tour)
>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:00:29 -0800
>
>This is true.  There is only one reason to do music - because you love  
>it. 
>  All the others - money, sex, fame etc are spooky dead ends.  It's  the 
>only reason that won't slap you in the face, depress you, send you  on 
>tirades against those who've had better luck.  And it protects you  from 
>doing music you don't care about, or second guessing the record  folks... 
>or making Artifice instead of Art.  And finally, it will never  let you 
>down.
>
>This is not to say that those who are furious - and sometimes for good  
>reason - don't love music.  But it's something I tell myself and all  the 
>up and coming folks I meet and work with.  It keeps it clean.  And  
>you'll 
>live longer.  And you have more time to practice.
>
>Thanks for the note Aaron.  And be glad you have mono...
>
>It could be stereo...
>or surround
>
>richard sales
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>On 16-Feb-07, at 11:05 AM, aaron leese wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Gee .... wouldn't it be better if the record companies all took a  hike, 
>>and we could go back to playing for barn dances and the  occasional 
>county 
>>fair, with no real hopes of making it big, and no  real possibility for 
>>global or even country wide distribution.
>>
>>I mean, big business may have commodified music, and may produce the  
>>lamest sorts of it ...... but what I really resent is that the music  
>>industry produced the weirder stuff like polka, avant garde jazz,  
>serbian 
>>classical folk..... wouldn't we all be better off if we had  never heard 
>>of such things?  And the internet ..... worldwide  distribution of music 
>>of all sorts for free .... god, don't even get  me started.
>>
>>Lets get back to a time when nobody used business to promote music ...  
>>and when it wasn't distributed at all .....  Yeah .... that way, none  
>of 
>>us can resent that some people are making huge amounts of money of  of 
>>music that we don't think is worthy of such plaudits.....
>>
>>and poor, pooor us ..... who have laptops ..... and can record music  
>and 
>>then upload it to the internet and get people all over the world  to 
>hear 
>>it ......
>>
>>Who cares if other people are gettin rich off of music .... and what  
>>difference does it make if the record industry sucks in all sorts of  
>ways 
>>...... things could always be better ... but they are pretty damn  good 
>>I'd say.
>>
>>Anyway, thats my half optimist rant ..... I'm sitting at home sick as  a 
>>dog with mono .... so I thought I would spread the love.
>>
>>ciao
>>Aaron
>>
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