Re: OT: Eno about record business

[Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com>]

It's not narrow minded as an observation of the audiences at every
single loopfest I've ever gone to.  The audience are the performers.
There are a narrow slice of people who do go to shows for the music,
but we're a sadly small minority.

Now tickets to concerts and drinking at clubs,
Sometimes for music that you haven't even heard of.
And how much did you pay for your rock'n'roll t-shirt
That proves you were there,
That you heard of them first?

-Cake

and while I'm quoting Cake, the last time I saw them they were very
hard to see (bad tickets, we were far away) and the sound was fair at
best (shitty compared to what I'm used to hearing from my modest home
stereo).  Why did we go?  It was way more about a date with my wife
than it was the show itself even though my wife and I are both big
fans.

(p.s. we didn't buy a teeshirt)

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Rainer
Straschill<moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Mark said:
> "...people don't even go to a show for the music or performance, but
> more often for the chance to be with a group of like-minded people.
> (and to drink beer and convince a member of the opposite sex to have
> sex with you)  The music is an excuse."
>
> Now, don't be so narrow-minded, Mark, and rather do embrace the fact
> that people take your shows as an excuse to possible convince a member
> of the same sex to have sex with them (or you, whatever may be the
> case ;).
>
> Best,
>
>            Rainer
>
>