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Original Band? Cover Band? Record labels? Music Business? - Great Article
Wed, 08/25/2010 - 8:32pm
Here's a link to an interesting article I stumbled across via other forum on the Music Business, Craft, and Art.. and current state.
http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/sxswspeechdoc/index.html
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 2:35am
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I loved this
I wouldn't know a van sant song if it hit me in the face.
but the guys knows what he's talking about.
admittedly in a fairly simplistic way, but still on the money.
throw away the effects racks and just plug in...yay now we're rockin'
Good read....
Yes we are experiencing big changes in the business but much more importantly over these last thirty years or so we have been witness to a crisis of craft.
You didn't have to make people dance anymore. They were too stoned to dance! You didn't even have to play your instrument anymore – all you had to do was act!
And now there's a new trend that's even more dangerous. And this affects songwriting as well as performance. Bands are starting to skip the bar band stage of their development. The club stage. Where, ideally you're still a dance band, but equally important, you get the opportunity to play other people's songs. Your favorite songs. All of a sudden I'm hearing it's not cool to play other people's songs. That's for the less gifted. The losers. The way we thought of the top 40 bar bands growing up has been extended to include any songs that didn’t come from your own personal genius.
This is a major problem.
Where are the Producers? Where are the Arrangers? The point being once upon a time it took an army of very talented people to make great records. Writers, singers, musicians, producers, arrangers, engineers and now you have to do it yourself? No wonder everything sucks!
Some really good points in there.