Re: 3 million hits with livelooping

[Paul Richards <paulrichard_rocks@yahoo.com>]

Well, again, the "herd instinct" at work doesn't mean anything. Every single day I see a video posted on Yahoo with a caption that reads "xxx video goes viral". So what!? If 1,000,000 idiots do something, does that make it something that I want to do (e.g. watching Jackass movies, piercing my testicles, et al)?

 

I'm not specifically referring to music - just the tendency of the herd to follow whatever starts being blitzed to the public via TV, radio & print.

 

 

From: Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com>
To: Paul Richards <paulrichard_rocks@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: 3 million hits with livelooping

Harshly put (not enough coffee yet)...

That depends on whether you are interested in indulgent self-exploration or in entertaining the audience.

Both are valid. Just don't be surprised if the audience is more interested in paying for — or listening to for that matter — the latter.

My music tends more toward the former and while I greatly appreciate it when it clicks with people, I don't feel that something is out of whack if most people put their attention elsewhere.

Mark

On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Paul Richards wrote:

I think 14 million people bought "Beanie Babies". And tens of thousands of people show up at mall shoe stores to battle over some new Michael Jordan sneaker. Millions more snarf the garbage that McDonalds sells. Numbers don't mean shit, man.

From: chaz worm <chaz@earthwormandfire.com>
To: "Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: 3 million hits with livelooping

Hey, what guitar mystery man does is essentially "pop looping". Of course true "looping afficianados" would not like it.
But it's a cool little video.
It's looping for the masses. That's why none of y'all have a 3million hit video.

Good for him.

Chaz

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On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:18 PM, chaz worm <chaz@earthwormandfire.com> wrote:
>> I think it's pretty cool anytime more people can get a glimpse into a vague semblance of what I do
>
> You too running in houses with shades? Cool!
>
> Per ;-))
>