----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [Listref]'Ignorant Thugs' Have Mishandled Downloadable Music
> Robert Seeberger wrote: > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&ncid=768&e=14&u=/nm/20031022/music_nm/music_rundgren_dc > > > > http://makeashorterlink.com/?C5DE23056 > > > > By Todd Rundgren > > > > Music is a sacrament. This has been true for thousands of years of human > > history, save the last 100 or so. > > Good stuff. Todd is one guy who knows both sides of the issue. The bit > at the end about knowing his stuff when it comes to technology is not an > exaggeration -- he's one of the most technologically competent artists > alive. He likes to say that when he was a teenager, he had to choose > between computers and music, but starting in the early '80s, he no > longer had to choose. > > I've known Todd for about 15 years -- I was with him many of the times > he preached to Hollywood about interactivity. But we pretty well knew > that it went to deaf ears because the industry's control of distribution > was the key to its oligopoly (back then, there were almost twice as many > labels -- seven!) and they knew it. > > Darn Todd for moving to Hawaii. I don't bump into him nearly as often now. > But do you have any of his albums? <G> xponent Owns A Couple Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
