[Rumori] re: Halcyon Days

[Taylor McLaren]

GLOG! Susan McTigue wrote:
>> Nope not true. In the sixties and seventies the
>> majors were very instrumental in bringing new and
>> exciting music out.
> But he reiterates that most
> of the music heavily promoted then AND now is/was
> promoted not for artistic reasons, but commercial
> ones. There were Britney Spears-equivalents in the
> 60's, too!
A lot of the impressive-name signings in the '60s and '70s (especially 
on the jazz front) were made largely to lend prestige to the labels 
involved; in a lot of ways, they served similar purposes as A&R reps 
with street credibility (the bass player of a super-cool underground 
band from fifteen years ago, etc.). Just like the vanity-label purges 
that went on when four companies took over the industry in the late 
'90s, the prestige signings all got it in the neck at the first sign of 
a sales slowdown in the mid '80s.

> I also don't (and never did) (illegally) download
> music. If I can buy music directly from an artist
> (online or in person), I will do that.
It drives me nuts to hear people say that they've downloaded gigabytes 
of music thanks to their shiny new cable modems, basically making 
things more expensive for me in the process. It's worse here in Japan, 
where CDs have the assumed cost of zillions of people renting and 
copying them built into the price tags.

-me