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Well said Richard... Here's to that ....... >From: Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >Subject: Re: "Brave New World" (was: Re: The Police on Tour) >Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:00:29 -0800 > >This is true. There is only one reason to do music - because you love >it. > All the others - money, sex, fame etc are spooky dead ends. It's the >only reason that won't slap you in the face, depress you, send you on >tirades against those who've had better luck. And it protects you from >doing music you don't care about, or second guessing the record folks... >or making Artifice instead of Art. And finally, it will never let you >down. > >This is not to say that those who are furious - and sometimes for good >reason - don't love music. But it's something I tell myself and all the >up and coming folks I meet and work with. It keeps it clean. And >you'll >live longer. And you have more time to practice. > >Thanks for the note Aaron. And be glad you have mono... > >It could be stereo... >or surround > >richard sales >glassWing farm and studio >vancouver island, b.c. >800.545.6846 >250.752.4816 >www.glassWing.com >www.richardsales.com >www.hayleysales.com >www.blueberryfieldsfarm.com >On 16-Feb-07, at 11:05 AM, aaron leese wrote: > >> >> >>Gee .... wouldn't it be better if the record companies all took a hike, >>and we could go back to playing for barn dances and the occasional >county >>fair, with no real hopes of making it big, and no real possibility for >>global or even country wide distribution. >> >>I mean, big business may have commodified music, and may produce the >>lamest sorts of it ...... but what I really resent is that the music >>industry produced the weirder stuff like polka, avant garde jazz, >serbian >>classical folk..... wouldn't we all be better off if we had never heard >>of such things? And the internet ..... worldwide distribution of music >>of all sorts for free .... god, don't even get me started. >> >>Lets get back to a time when nobody used business to promote music ... >>and when it wasn't distributed at all ..... Yeah .... that way, none >of >>us can resent that some people are making huge amounts of money of of >>music that we don't think is worthy of such plaudits..... >> >>and poor, pooor us ..... who have laptops ..... and can record music >and >>then upload it to the internet and get people all over the world to >hear >>it ...... >> >>Who cares if other people are gettin rich off of music .... and what >>difference does it make if the record industry sucks in all sorts of >ways >>...... things could always be better ... but they are pretty damn good >>I'd say. >> >>Anyway, thats my half optimist rant ..... I'm sitting at home sick as a >>dog with mono .... so I thought I would spread the love. >> >>ciao >>Aaron >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Mortgage rates as low as 4.625% - Refinance $150,000 loan for $579 a >>month. Intro*Terms https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp? >>product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h27f >>6&disc=y&vers=743&s=4056&p=5117 >> _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage rates as low as 4.625% - Refinance $150,000 loan for $579 a month. Intro*Terms https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h27f6&disc=y&vers=743&s=4056&p=5117