Comments on: Moving the product http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9514 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Alger http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9514/comment-page-1#comment-25933 Mark Alger Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:31:22 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9514#comment-25933 If you hang out at all among independent musicians, you'll quickly discover that there is a LARGE contingent of those of whom you might say, "Didn't you used to be somebody?" People who were reliable mid-listers, turning out top-quality journeyman work in a reliable time frame, and doing so with interesting artifice that people actually wanted to hear. (As opposed to that teenagers seem unable to resist -- for 30 seconds.) And their stories are depressingly the same. They were cut by their labels, had to work like dogs for years to get their masters back, and are now selling more copies of more albums than ever before, and doing it on the Internet through MySpace and iTunes and so-forth. You can tell who they are by the fact that, even with NO national media exposure, they can sell under 250 tickets to a show and still gross in the high five figures per date. 200 days a year. Meantime, the record companies have disgustingly slick sites for people who don't know what end of a guitar the sound comes out of. They sell 500,000 copies of a song on iTunes and they're a star. Until next week when the new flavor comes along. M If you hang out at all among independent musicians, you’ll quickly discover that there is a LARGE contingent of those of whom you might say, “Didn’t you used to be somebody?” People who were reliable mid-listers, turning out top-quality journeyman work in a reliable time frame, and doing so with interesting artifice that people actually wanted to hear. (As opposed to that teenagers seem unable to resist — for 30 seconds.)

And their stories are depressingly the same. They were cut by their labels, had to work like dogs for years to get their masters back, and are now selling more copies of more albums than ever before, and doing it on the Internet through MySpace and iTunes and so-forth.

You can tell who they are by the fact that, even with NO national media exposure, they can sell under 250 tickets to a show and still gross in the high five figures per date. 200 days a year.

Meantime, the record companies have disgustingly slick sites for people who don’t know what end of a guitar the sound comes out of. They sell 500,000 copies of a song on iTunes and they’re a star. Until next week when the new flavor comes along.

M

]]> By: CGHill http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9514/comment-page-1#comment-25930 CGHill Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:57:38 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9514#comment-25930 Odd thing about Nilsson: other people had the hits with his songs, he did better with other people's. Case in point: Three Dog Night got the hit out of "One", the Monkees from "Cuddly Toy"; Harry's biggest include "Without You" (a Badfinger number) and "Everybody's Talkin'" (by Fred Neil). Odd thing about Nilsson: other people had the hits with his songs, he did better with other people’s. Case in point: Three Dog Night got the hit out of “One”, the Monkees from “Cuddly Toy”; Harry’s biggest include “Without You” (a Badfinger number) and “Everybody’s Talkin’” (by Fred Neil).

]]> By: John Salmon http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9514/comment-page-1#comment-25929 John Salmon Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:36:24 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9514#comment-25929 That Nilsson/Newman album was probably the only successful album Harry, despite all his talent, ever did. Left to his own song-writing devices he'd sing goofy stuffy like that Coconut song. That Nilsson/Newman album was probably the only successful album Harry, despite all his talent, ever did. Left to his own song-writing devices he’d sing goofy stuffy like that Coconut song.

]]> By: It’s an unhappy FMJRA Saturday. « A Conservative Shemale http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9514/comment-page-1#comment-25928 It’s an unhappy FMJRA Saturday. « A Conservative Shemale Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:32:06 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9514#comment-25928 [...] CG Hill looks at one of the reasons music sucks so bad now. [...] [...] CG Hill looks at one of the reasons music sucks so bad now. [...]

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