OT: Brian Eno about recorded music and the current live music scene

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

thanx Fabio for such an interesting article
you know ive been thinking about putting a new CD out but after reading 
this article well...
So if recorded CDs are out of style whats next? are we all becoming itunes 
downloaders?i still think people do want to have a CDs playing in their 
car or HI-FI system and look at a physical cover with art work etc.as much 
as people still want to go and check out a good live band so Mr. En seems 
a bit pessimistic but i believe he might be right.
since about the last 3 years ive noticed that my own latin CDs have not 
been selling as well as beofre,though they keep selling quite well through 
downloads,even when we play live people arent buying the physical CDs 
anymore,i suppose they just go the to website and download whatever they 
like.But i guess it isnt any different that going to a store writting down 
the specs of what you want to buy and looking for a cheaper alternative 
througuh the net.
Also it has become hard to get people in the bars when you put any sort of 
cover charge at the door here in southern germany,what a lot of agencies 
are doing here is organising " Town Music Nights",that means htey hire 
about 12 bands in different bars and sell tickets for 10.-eur. to the 
public so they cvan bar hop,see 12 bands and feel they are getting their 
moneys worth.The problem is as a musician you get paid shit and have to 
play no less than 4 hrs.provide your own P.A.etc.
it also seems people are only willing to pay a regular fee at big 
festivals or open airs for well know acts.
But i still think that here in germany the live music scene is still 
pretty good compared to the U.S.,we still get paid well,really good meals 
and all we can drink;-)
It is kind of a strange time for music...although there is everything out 
there for everybody it seems there isnt really a comunity movement or 
style like in the past decades.Maybe everybody is saturated with too much 
candy;-)

cheers
www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- Fabio_A <eterogenus@gmail.com> schrieb am Di, 26.1.2010:

> Von: Fabio_A <eterogenus@gmail.com>
> Betreff: OT: Brian Eno about recorded music
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Datum: Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010, 6:42
> I got this by the ambient list.
> Just to share with some Eno's addicted, as I am.
> Hope it doesn't fire up the stealing music debate...
>  
> fabio
> www.eterogeneo.com
>  
> 
> "I think records were just a little bubble through
> time and those who
> 
> made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no
> reason
> why anyone should have made so much money from selling
> records
> except that everything was right for this period of time. I
> always
> knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't
> last, and now it's
> 
> running out. I don't particularly care that it is and
> like the way
> things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a
> bit like if
> you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could
> be used
> as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale
> blubber, you
> 
> were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and
> you'd be
> stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate - history's
> moving along.
> Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something
> else will
> replace it." 
> 
> 
> (Brian Eno 2010-01-17 The Guardian)
> 
> 

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