Charlie Kelly
Local Business Owner and Cat Enthusiast
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The industry has the money publicity and marketing not to mention the best producers available. All of these assets are used to create a band that can tour successfully. Initial contracts are never in favor of the artist. Unless you are an obvious prodigy that checks all the boxes. Then you can start a bidding war for your services and most likely have a lawyer meeting their lawyer. If not, then you are given an opportunity to recoup all the money the label invested and create a fanbase that can carry you beyond the initial contract. They are not "eating people alive". In the 70's you had some unscrupulous agents ripping off naive artists left and right (Jimi Hendrix). In today's atmosphere, artists are much more involved and labels won't do business with such agents.
Oh God man, Id have to dig through boxes. I have so much **** Ive stored away in totes and closets. I did this one of an old dying tree on the edge of a pond that was decent. Ill see if I can find it.
I'll disagree entirely. Labels only deal with more stable commodities now, so the devastation is less aparent.
Back in Hank Sr's time, they ran those dudes into the ground, and it either ran people out of the game, or they ended up either abandoning any semblence of integrity, or they died.
I think sometime around the late 60s, that it was a valid economic strategy to let their stars die.
It all came to a head in the nineties, when almost everyone of note died.
After that they finally figured out that there were formuli they could use that didnt involve actual death.
So, they started mandating that artists do not use narcotics on tour. They watch them with the same hawkishness that insurance companies would.
Its eliminated a massive segment of the most creative people around and replaced them with rich kids who have an innate understanding of socioeconomic dynamics, but have absolutely no clue what it means to be so devoted to the craft you love beyond all else.
Don't talk to me about people who have figured out how to do it on their own, and found great success.
They're also rich kids, and they got no feel.
They figured out in the 90s that all you need is a marketable face to sell music. Technology made their jobs so much easier. Fixing voices who cant stay in tune. Replacing instruments and bands.
Unfortunately, it was the downfall of real artists.
They still need charisma, and thats why we have a world full of artists that have huge followings and no actual capacity for creativity.
There are absolutely still suprrnely talented people making it big.
But theyre either boring, or have contrived personalities.
People who would have once been ace studio musicians or songwriters are now thrust into mass notoriety.
The problem is, theyre stifled or manipulated in what they release.
Its a shame, because they may have been great talents if theyd been allowed to develop without the interference.
Then you got the hacks who make it because they look real good, or they know how to navigate social media very well.
Theyve always been around. Always will, in some form.
Don't get me started on the succesful indie artists, or bands.
Its become an incredibly subdued way of creating music that appears to appeal to people who like 'real music', but its really just a heartless immitation of a significantly more organic, energetic, brilliant expression of roots music.
Good quality instruments cost too much these days,and there is a massive divide between how regular people live, and how artists perceive reality
Hit the nail on the head. I cant stand hipsters who think they know what real music is.
Capitalism, man. It ruins art. Makes me sad.
I emailed you back by the way.
Hipsters have infected folk with uper middle class mediocrity. Blows my minf that they can sell records. Reminds me of the late 50s\early 60s whitewashed versions of black music.
Great analogy, actually. B.B. King was always my favorite guitarist. Black people are just innately more honest with themselves than white people. Makes for great art.
I'd say rather, that there were more black folks with nothing left to lose.
Why not pour your soul into a lost cause if youre ****ed anyway?
I never cared where someone came from, or who they were if they were able to do that crazy thing so few do. That natural crazy that makes you scream from the bottom of your gut, or that knack to transcend language through an instrument.
I wish there was a way to blend the articulation of motown music with the lyrics of very real country, and the insanity of honest to god hard rock.
It takes a special person and a special moment. Im glad you get it. Without anything to lose, all you have left to give is your soul. And thats what they put into it. And its why it turned out so brilliant.
im gonna do some weird stuff