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Who do you think actually runs the American music industry?
I'll give you a hint, it's not some arbitrary American affluence.
It's the Mafia. The actual Mafia. Not some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clout chasing modern mainstream gangsters, it's real, actual organized crime syndicate.
Why do you think all musicians hate the music industry?
THAT'S WHY.
Look up the history of Payola and and the history of ClearChannel (now better known as iHeartRadio).
And everybody knows the Mafia does not just quietly go away because the feds gave them a slap on the wrist about it. Gotti himself was involved in the 1980s.
As far as the Napster argument goes: The only detriment to low record sales is the risk of labels dropping you because you suck. Also, artists receive a pittance for every record sold.
In the end, I don't think it mattered since companies eventually found a way to track the metrics of what's being downloaded on the internet (to gauge its popularity) and artists took advantage of the idea behind Napster and learned to distribute their own music without a major record label or paying for product distribution.
As Pierce mentioned: Most of the money a musician makes is on tour (and merch). In my opinion, companies claiming ownership of master records through shady contracts is a more important argument (pertaining to musicians) than fans downloading your albums for free.
thats the thing i wanted to talk about in here.
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Do you currently know any fully independent artists who are making a living wage solely on live performances and merch without the corprotocracy's investment backing? Because I don't. All of your mainstream social media platforms that independent artists gain success on, they depend upon those platforms for a base sum total. If there is no platform, they sink.
Video Killed The Radio Star, and Radio killed the live performance musician.
I don't like it, in fact I hate it, but that is how it is.
I really don't see a point in arguing mainstream success against independent success, the color of the boat doesn't actually matter, it still functions exactly the same.
Labels take an automatic 50% cut, and while the artist does get a percentage they have investments they have to make payments against in terms of manufacturing and production value costs, if you go mainstream than you also have to pay your advertising and marketing staff, and basically everybody who does anything for you in terms of staffing to make your success viable has to get paid for their contribution to your success.
Frank Zappa was asked by David Letterman in 1983 once how he got the London Symphony Orchestra to perform on his album and he said: "You pay them." Letterman asked how because they're prestigious and Zappa calmly said: "Yes. So you pay them a lot of money."
In that exact same interview a few minutes prior to that, Zappa said:
"We've got a problem with Brown Lipstick in the Corporate Suite. And I don't think anybody looks good with Brown Lipstick."
The man's got a point.
https://youtu.be/DjMO_ewZxIQ?si=5SBXXbABjpqGsFW_
Nevermind, don't bother answering. I just finished downloading my car and need to take it out for a test spin to make sure all the bits made it over in proper order.
George Kollias.
https://youtu.be/CL_6gb4fVHo?si=CsNBtKELxo7llrF-
i did not know this drummer. thx for the link. i play music myself with electric guitar, but i play rock and the drummer kollias is surely technically insane^^. he plays doublebass for example, and me myself couldnt play with such drummer. i like frank zappa and neil young the most for being inspired and i love to listen to metal...
again thanks for the link