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it's a sad but true speech. she does seem to neglect that if the band wrote their own songs, they'd have made another $2million.... it doesn't really change the nature of the industry however... On Apr 24, 2006, at 7:29 AM, Per Boysen wrote: > On 24 apr 2006, at 11.55, loop.pool wrote: > >> This is an unedited transcript of a <sic> speech to the Digital >> Hollywood online entertainment conference, given in New York on >> May 16. > > Yes, it was a great speech. The conference was held in year 2000. > Here's the originally published text: > http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html > > Interested can also read the related article "The Problem With > Music" by Steve Albini: > http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/problemwithmusic.html > > Personally I more or less quit "doing the corporate rock thing" as > a major label singed artist in 1997, to focus on making music for > pleasure. I wrote some books in Swedish on the matter and when the > above two articles came around I was more than delighted. They kind > of justified my critical view and also helped me getting more gigs > as a speaker, seminar panel moderator etc, thus providing food on > my table ;-) > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se (Swedish) > www.looproom.com (international) > http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) > > > > ric hordinski monk@fuse.net www.richordinski.com www.myspace.com/richordinskimusic 513.260.1043