tyler_durden;285404 Wrote: > Artists who don't perform live are in the wrong business the same way > the record comapanies are now in the wrong business (they became > irrelevant when the physical disc was no longer required to distribute > recorded music). I know it is hard to swallow, but that's life. An > engineer who can't/won't engineer won't make a living and neither will > a musician who can't/won't perform. > I'm sorry, that's just absurd. Performing live on stage is not the be-all and end-all of being a musician. What you're looking for are performers, they're a different thing (although often embodied in the same person).
You need to open your mind a little and see that there are forms of music out there which don't conform to your view of what a musician is. If what you want came to pass then entire genres of music (ones I happen to be very passionate about) would simply cease to exist. That's not just hard to swallow, I'm not going to stand by and watch it happen. The guy making awesome music at home in his bedroom is just as important to me as the guy who was lucky enough to have parents who could send him to the conservatory. > > I think we'd end up where music started- wealthy patrons of the arts > would pay muscicians to create new music for their enjoyment and the > rest of us would be listening to musicians on the lower end of the > scale in bars, restaurants, etc., they way things were before the > record industry was invented. I don't think it is such a bad thing. > I think it sounds awful. I don't want musical cast offs, I want the best, and I want variety. What people forget about the "good old days" before recorded music was that you really didn't have much choice in what you heard. African music? No. Asian music? No. > > Where is it written in stone that music must continue to be a > multimillion source of income for anyone? > Nowhere, but that's not what I'm arguing for. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45519 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
