It's Tunesday: Jeffrey Dean Foster, Greg Humphreys, Snuzz - the whole world as one small room…
source: http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2011/05/10/tunesday-the-whole-world-as-one-small-room/
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You know what marketing music is – or rather, was. Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman explained the process to us some years ago in their classic, “So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star”:
Then it’s time to go downtown
Where the agent man won’t let you down.
Sell your soul to the company
Who are waiting there to sell plastic ware.
These lyrics, of course, presume a world where gatekeepers representing powers with vast media resources and near complete hegemony over public interest, taste, and access can make stars. As I said, those days are over. Most of the artists in this review flirted with that world – as I, a musician myself, did. All came away (as I did) disillusioned in some way with “the business,” as that side of the musician life is called in the parlance. They could have, as I have done for long stretches, walked away and found something else to solace themselves with/find success of a sort in – as I did with writing fiction and teaching.
But these artists continue to fight the good fight and make music. Great music. To hell with marketers and silos and disappointments and distributed cultures. Let’s spend some time celebrating their love of music – and their great work.
Then it’s time to go downtown
Where the agent man won’t let you down.
Sell your soul to the company
Who are waiting there to sell plastic ware.
These lyrics, of course, presume a world where gatekeepers representing powers with vast media resources and near complete hegemony over public interest, taste, and access can make stars. As I said, those days are over. Most of the artists in this review flirted with that world – as I, a musician myself, did. All came away (as I did) disillusioned in some way with “the business,” as that side of the musician life is called in the parlance. They could have, as I have done for long stretches, walked away and found something else to solace themselves with/find success of a sort in – as I did with writing fiction and teaching.
But these artists continue to fight the good fight and make music. Great music. To hell with marketers and silos and disappointments and distributed cultures. Let’s spend some time celebrating their love of music – and their great work.
