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Re: "Brave New World" (was: Re: The Police on Tour)
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
>glassWing farm and studio
>vancouver island, b.c.
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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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