eppylover ([info]eppylover) wrote,
@ 2008-03-12 15:55:00
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In Defence of Dick Rowe?

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Image courtesy the wonderful
Chazz Avery at BeatleSource.com

1962 Beatles Decca audition tape
In response to today's hot news flashes ~~
CityNews.ca / The Biggest Blunders In Music History
and
uk.reuters.com / War against Web tops music biz "screw-ups" list ~~
Dick Rowe.
He's the executive who refused to sign the Beatles, after Brian Epstein brought the quartet to him for a disastrous audition in 1962. His remark that "groups with guitars are on their way out" has become one of the most widely quoted stories about the Fab Four, even though the exec denied ever uttering the phrase.
  ~~ on that same subject, from back in August of 2006 ~~
Poor old Dick Rowe. What did that mean Eppy do to you? *snork*
[post includes a few pics]

.....by the way..... I thoroughly agree with Blender Magazine (who?) in their choice for the number one music boo-boo of all time. Which is: the clueless, paranoid, greedy record industry's hissy-fit over Napster, and its subsequent censorship/mishandling of the internet's filesharing potential.

They have hung themselves with their own rope and [in a premonitory tone not unlike Eppy's] I gleefully pronounce them a dead industry walking.
*Christine throws a handful of confetti over her head*


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[info]zyzzybalubah
2008-03-12 11:41 pm UTC (link)
You know, Eppy would've never stood for people stealing the Beatles music.

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[info]eppylover
2008-03-13 12:42 am UTC (link)
I trust that between Brian and John (both of whom, according to their own words, were more about "spreading the word" than "raking in the dough") they might have figured out the fact that, with the influx of the internet and filesharing, the days of the overbearing leeching record industry bureaucracy would be numbered, and they would have put their heads together to find a better way. If not, then hopefully they wouldn't have gotten their panties all in a twist about adjusting their methods when the time came.

The word "stealing" has been obsolete for a long time, dude.

Please have the patience to read this through to the end:
http://www.simonnapierbell.com/buggered.html

Cheers! xD

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[info]zyzzybalubah
2008-03-13 04:53 am UTC (link)
Trust me, all of the Beatles were about "raking in the dough". I seem to recall they were all suing each other for nearly two decades over "dough". Don't think for a second that John or Paul would've been cool with giving Sgt. Pepper or any of their other albums away for free (well, maybe Let it Be since that album was such a mess).

I know I'm not going to change your mind about illegal downloading because so long as there is no way to police it, people are gonna keep stealing (I checked my dictionary and the word "stealing" still exists) and coming up with bogus excuses to justify it (like "stickin' it to the man") when the fact is they are just as greedy, if not more so, than the music business powers-that-be because they want what they want when they want it and don't want to have to pay for it. We can buy individual songs for 99 cents (even less from some places) and albums for 10 to 12 bucks. If you adjust for inflation and such, that's the cheapest music has ever been.

Contrary to what is stated in that article, illegal downloading is not helping music. I don't agree that music is more vibrant than ever. Very soon all new music will be lowest common denominator tripe like Hanna Montana and the High School Musical soundtrack because that's the only stuff that makes money.


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[info]eppylover
2008-03-13 05:27 pm UTC (link)
> [ suing each other for nearly two decades over "dough" ]

...all post-Eppy. According to Martin Lewis, none of that acrimony would have taken place had Brian still been around.

The basic definition of "stealing" just will not apply to the arts on a grand, mass scale anymore. "All new music" will not degrade, because it won't be limited anymore to "the only stuff that makes money."

It's impossible to "police" the 'net. Not gonna happen. Be like sticking a wad of gum to plug a leak in the dam.

You are not gonna "cure" a culture change.
There will be losers in the game. To employ an admittedly bad example, candlemakers were going out of business from the influx of electrical lights going into homes.
Simply culture change brought about by lifestyle improvements, and not everyone will be happy.

You can go down crying "thievery!" or you can adjust with the times and create new and better ways to profit from your art rather than selling it en masse. The ball is now being passed to the hands of individual artistes, freed from the hold and demands of the powermongers who used to be their only option for spreading their art.

I'll admit that, initially, "Brian Uptight" (and Pennypincher Paulie) would be freaked out by "illegal" music sharing ~ but John was enough of a anachronistic nonconformist that he would be more likely to see past all this anal garbage and get a kick out of the scuffles. Barring any Klein or Yoko anti-influences, he'd be taking it all as a challenge to create new ways to profit from his art, rather than to stifle however people are deriving esthetic enjoyment in this new age. He was always more of a Socialist than a Nazi ~ and he was very good at talking sense into Brian when he had to; i.e., not stifling The Beatles when they went off on "unprofitable" artistic escapades.

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