Do You Have Problems Distributing Your Music?

Those are all points I agree with.. By coincidence/accident, I got into the cell phone business in 2000, right after graduating. By 2005 after managing a few stores, I got my own with a high school friend, and it's amazing how those who never had a cell phone just a week before suddenly became addicted and would almost melt-down if they screwed it up. I'm thinking of someone who kept hitting "Airplane Mode".

I have a flip phone and barely use it. I don't text. I'm not anti-technology, but I know my concentration/focus isn't what it used to be, and I REALLY notice this from friends/family. I also notice people who used to be so passionate about things aren't. Everyone I knew loved music, went to concerts, and in the last handful of years, I can't find anyone to go, and I stopped going. Although, I did e-mail my cousin, since he does like Chicago, but he flaked out on me before. That's another thing. People's word seems to mean nothing anymore, and because it's becoming more and more common, of course it's more and more acceptable. 99% of communication seems like it's not face-to-face, and instead of answering a person, people take their time with the best reply possible, if they reply at all. "I never got your message. My phone died".

I don't even have a radio or stereo - I connect my HDMI to my TV and watch/listen that way. Even a dozen of years ago, I don't remember buying CDs, but I did spend a lot more money on concerts because they uploaded their music onto YouTube. When I do find someone/something interesting, and I don't like to admit it, I only send $1. I actually get charged $1 for every online transaction because I have to get one of those pre-paid debit cards, but I just hope that person thinks someone out there likes their stuff, cares, and hopefully they keep going on. But, I do see MANY people giving a ton of money to millionaires via Superchat. I guess it's my approach to voting -- I'd rather vote 3rd party for encouragement and to show the system we're not happy.. A few months ago, I was under $5, which is my monthly fee for my debit card, so I thought I'd go find a song or two and give each $1 on bandcamp. And I couldn't find anything I liked, despite using categories I was in the mood for (and sent it to a theater instead). With so many sites and with so many people using easy routes to record/upload music, there's so much, and just like any medium, only 1% of it is great, and so now one has to sift through a ton of stuff, and I usually just revert to YouTube recommendations - mostly 70s prog :)

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And this was the reason why I ended up listening to European music in the 70's ... it was obviously not mandated by a record company, and it was so clear in so many countries, even though England was still having issues with its version of Brexit ... the rich control the country ... PERIOD ... and all those pirate brouhahas will die fighting for nothing ... and they lost that battle, but many years later they took it back ... they call it "brexit" now, and they might as well be honest about it ... we own and collect everything since we are the powerful and have the media to tell lies and get folks to believe us that we do it better! They even try to make you feel guilty for not liking the crown!

However, in the rest of Europe there was a very strong line of anti establishment thing in many countries for various reasons and in the BBC special on Krautrock, Edgar Froese actually said the right thing ... it was a new time, a new place, no past and only a future ... and we went for it! 

You have to see and understand that. And so many "economies" in Europe were shattered that it was easier for folks to do their thing, but when you read "Future Days" you know that Germany only published "schlagger" and some classical music. PERIOD. And all the bands went out of the country to "make it" and that is what got "krautrock" their fame and name ... but it turns out the same thing was happening in Italy, Spain, France and many other places ... of course, even inspired by other countries with similar situations ... one off dictatorship, one a mess in politics, one delusional by Fellini ... and then you have America ... who has more and less politics than anyone else since it is all "entertainment" here and just a media fun game ... today red, tomorrow blue and next day purple scrim in the background ...  everyone is a star! ... and they were all "wrong" and only half right ... and the game continues. No "loser" per se, since it isn't football, or basketball or baseball! 

But the media control is impossible to deal with ... one pres went out to get people out of their job for saying good morning VietNam ... and now the same person is going around trying to say that everything is some kind of this or that cheating me of my chance to be famous ... it's all media and nothing else ... not even politics anymore, since they don't care about the weather, the ozone, or the war in Ukraine ... they only care about their number on the media show ... and their name being mentioned 100 times per hour!

It's really hard to not be discouraged, but I was around a famous person, and met many more in music, and the one thing I loved the most? The best stuck to their source, and only Pedro and Gilly could ever understand Daevid wanting to do more guitar shops for the glissando and even create a symphony off it ... because we thought the stuff was far out! In my book, I really do not need anyone else to show me the clue to their own inner beauty ... and Gilly's Beat Poetry is also a part of it ... she took computer paper folded up and 2 feet high and paged it and sang off it in SF ... and you would never know which words were a part of the "lyrics" or not ... well none of us gave a darn when Dean Moriarty did it either! Until after when we tried to make sense of it all ... it's not about "sense" ... it's about "doing" and this is what improvisation and experimentation is about ... that we are missing so much!

We forgot the source.

Plain and simple.

If you can, I recommend reading some Peter Brook ... he's theater, film, and performance ... but his words and various details about exercises and such ... are heavenly! If only musicians had such sense and strength ... so much more music/art would come alive ... but we are afraid ... of ourselves!

Even if no one ever sees it or hears it ... you know inside ... you really went for it ... and that is all that matters!

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This is so different from the 70's when, we more often than not, bought something simply by the cover or just from (MAYBE!!!) even having heard a snip somewhere ... or to make sure that jerk that said TD was washing machine music, got his some dildoe up his ideas!

And I think there is something to that ability ... you learned to feel things the first time, without a hint or any ideas, and I think that is a VERY IMPORTANT part of discovering the art and the value of a lot of work, never mind the person!

This is where the music, not just the arts, have lost a lot of their subtleties ... because now you are getting into it with some of your own expectations and thoughts, and the ability for it to sound new and exciting, differs when you know nothing about it ... and this is the main reason why so many musicians, are afraid of IMPROVISATION and a lot of ideas and content, having to do with experimentation ... and mentioned as an excuse that the public won't like it ... which to me is like saying a person does not know who they are without looking at those around them!

You have to know the difference, when it comes to the arts and how you want to see it ... you are there to see and check something new or a different person ... and it's like all the information about the new girl has already been sent you ... heck ... get a _____ ... much easier to deal with and less hassle and cheaper!

To me, there is "magic" in meeting the "nothing" you don't know. And how it helps you as a person internally can not be measured at all. This is so much like the "doors" in the Tibetan Book of the Dead ... written hundreds and hundreds of years ago, and we're still afraid! 

We have learned nothing?