Guitarhacker
Interesting story here on the current state of malaise in this music business.....
http://elitedaily.com/music/how-one-generation-was-able-to-kill-the-music-industry/593411/
Your thoughts after reading it?
Honestly, or cynically?
I'm glad to see it go. When you consider that Mike Oldfield, Gong, Tangerine Dream and many others are still trying to get some money owed them by that guy that flies those big balls, you might come to the conclusion that many folks ripped off so many people and got away with it ... because there was no accounting as to how many albums they sold ... no one knows!
I always said, since 1974 that the insdustry was going to get hurt. It had blown up with all the foreign bands and imports, and all of a sudden both Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones got $100 million each, and the distributing conglomerates immediately dumped all the smaller bands. I have always said that top ten is not what makes you money .... it's how much you can bring up from the BOTTOM 10 that will bring you a bigger margin than what you had before.
20 years later, Metallica did the worst thing possible and added a sharp knife to their heart. They went after Napster for the money, and from that day on, everyone went to downloads, and the music industry went even further down.
Today, you don't need these big corporate rip-off artists anymore. You can make it on your own, if you are smart and surround yourself with folks that help you get this done.
I do not shed a tear for the "music business", because, as far as I am concerned they are the Henry 8th of the 20th century or the Richard 3rd of the 20th century ... they need to die!
And some of those folks put in jail!
What's more bizarre, is reading in school about the industrial revolution (D H Lawrence) and how it was hurting individuals, and we still don't give a cahoot! And let those rich fudgers get away with it. Totally bizarre! And NOW, these same folks in Europe are trying hard to lock out parts of search agents to prevent "bad stuff" from being said about them on the internet! We still don't get it ... that some rich/powerful folks, are still running the show, and we let them!