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Music in the Digital Era
Part One: The Echo Chamber
I’m not here, playing to win a popularity contest by trying to reflect reality and truth in music, am I? Because if I did, what inevitable failure I might endure if I joined that dirty ditch…
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Listen to InterviewPart 5– The “Shallow Money trench” Analogy
However impossible it may seem…the reason is, you’re not famous enough.
Part 6 — Pearls, Swine, and the infinity of opinions
To overcome this problem we realized the “real” music industry isn’t anywhere near the bottom rung. Everywhere we played, we met one after another band playing tired cliches with hopes to ride the coattails of a genre fad, and everyone claps because “gotta support the arts!”…even if its shitty, cliched and you hate it? Don’t we want to foster the best because, “where are all the rock bands…”? Remember? Am I the only one who gives a shit about the rules anymore?! Who the hell am I kidding? I’m asking Los Angeles to change for me? Why should I even expect anything at all from the city built on the business of exaggeration?
Part 7– The artist centric business model
The music industry is corporate and monopolized. Everybody is real nice about telling you to get the fuck out of their forest.
Part 8 — The Impossible and The Unknown
Every business has an initial investment of time, money and resources to get going. Being an artist and making a living has to be a compatible endeavor, if we want music to progress. It’s the act of creating that is the unique and valuable thing that we as musicians strive to capture and reproduce. Learning that process takes many qualities, personal and technical, that many people do not possess. I was always told, “If everyone was rich, there would be no rich people. If everybody was special, there would be no special. If everybody was an artist, there can be no artists.”