PMM
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Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 11:15
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http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/
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IanB
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Edited Jun 21, 2012, 18:19
Re: Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 12:58
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PMM wrote:
Thanks for pointing that out.
I was going to post a link to Lowery's essay and then thought better of it as I figured I would get dragged into an artist's rights versus hark-the-freetard-angels-sing spat.
All I will say is that many of the voices who advocated free as a way of doing business in the arts are getting quieter as labels fold. Of the self promoters and bloggers the ones that most effectively used the debate to get themselves a profile are now getting jobs at places like Live Nation as new media advisors. Even the venerable Lefsetz shills for Rhino/Warner while banging the Spotify drum.
Other than Apple who has benefitted more from the collapse of the record business than the behemoths of the concert promotion business?
Meet the new boss ....
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Moon Cat
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Re: Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 15:43
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Interesting. That guy writes very well on the matter.
Thanks!
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zphage
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Re: Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 16:55
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NPR really stepped in it
yet it is an important discussion worth having
and there does seem to be a generational incongruency:
Original NPR post:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/06/16/154863819/i-never-owned-any-music-to-begin-with
Lefsetz offhand reply, but with some good points(apparently he wasn't a fan of Camper Van):
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2012/06/18/the-david-lowery-screed/
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Pursued By Trees
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Re: Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 19:33
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I hadn't come across this before, very interesting and though provoking.
Was genuinely surprised and delighted to discover David Lowery at the bottom of it all.
Bob Lefsetz? Sheeeeesh!!
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stray
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Re: Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 19:38
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Pursued By Trees wrote:
Bob Lefsetz? Sheeeeesh!!
Indeed.
"If we want to talk about law and shame, why don’t we get all the musicians to stop doing dope?"
WTF Bob its not the 1970s anymore, most musicians can't afford those habits anymore.
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Pursued By Trees
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Re: Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 21:30
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He writes well.
Also bear in mind that this is from a man whose bands Cracker and CVB both have 'open taping policy' and are happy to have their live shows recorded by fans and freely shared via download. There's around six and a half pages of live shows to choose from on Archive.org.
It's a shame that his blog http://300songs.com/ is under restoration at present as there's a whole heap of his writings about the songs of Cracker and CVB and the incidents that inspired some of them .. a shame only in so far as there isn't all that much of it left up to enjoy at present. I'm sure that it'll be well worth the re-vamp when it's all done.
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Pursued By Trees
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Re: Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 21:33
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stray wrote: WTF Bob its not the 1970s anymore, most musicians can't afford those habits anymore.
You wouldn't be speaking 'truth to power' there would you?
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PMM
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Re: Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 22:41
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Lowery was saying something similar, but much angrier a week or two back.
http://www.davidlowerymusic.com/300songsblog.cfm?feature=1650209&postid=1769157
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Five
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Re: Unsticking it to The Man
Jun 21, 2012, 23:39
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I was pleased with the NPR rant and also some of Lowery's previous rants. I'm glad to see his POV getting airtime. I've been saying something along those lines for years. That said, there are several contexts in which I am not opposed to music-blogging — archival or OOP releases, promotional situations. I don't think of it as being like the radio or like mix-tapes, tho I understand those points-of-view. I definitely see iTunes/Spotify as symptomatic of the larger problem, more than I worry about bloggers.
my 5 cents ...
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