Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 1:31:26 PM, a knob was tweaked and out came:

TDCJ> actually, a great number of jazz tunes are compiled in the "real" 
TDCJ> book, or in a "fake book" which doesnt contain some of the tunes 
TDCJ> in the "real" book and theyre all considered standards which many 
TDCJ> musicians play. the idea of owning a sound is stupid. the idea of 
TDCJ> caring makes no sense unless youre doing it for money. when i put 
TDCJ> my first tunes up on the web in MP3, anyone who wants can sample 
TDCJ> them, take them for free, whatever. making money from music like 
TDCJ> that is ridiculous, IMO. getting paid for live gigs is cool, why 
TDCJ> not go gig some more?

Artist reduced to manual laborer . . . yeah, sounds like fecking
bliss to me.

What next?  Selling tickets to watch a writer type a book that will be
given away for free at the end of the session?  Should I give up on
selling my paintings and just charge people to see me make them?

"Artist" does not always equal "performer"

Devalue originality and it will disappear.

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Brian "balistic" Prince
http://www.bprince.com - art and techno
Strokes of Defiance EP . . . soon.



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