My request was probably unfair, as I think you were just pining for a ~better~ way for musicians to be respected and compensated for their talents and work. I can certainly appreciate the sentiment without any specifics.
This however I can feel:
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Originally Posted by roachboy
music markets are not rational. never were: demand has been structured by the main audio media and related print media almost from point where audio reproduction technologies became widely available. and conservatism in music programming is not a new phenomenon. generally, in the states folk who are doing new things wait until they are dead to get their music heard. even then, it doesn't work as it could.
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Except for the freakish exception (like perhaps the PNW grunge phenom in the early 90's) it's what's turning heads now that the powers that be want to "recreate" in the hopes of keeping the heads so turned and the registers so ringing. No matter how you slice it the whole music industry is extremely synthetic and manufactured....the simoncowellization of art.
Sad really.
I'm curious about you in other regards. You as musician is new to me as of today and you have peaked my curiousity. Both with your declarations for the care and assistance to rest of the paino and your outline of what in 2007 has/d your ear.
I wonder if your improvisations have ever been committed to a format for future consumption? Is this even possible...not physically of course but can your improvs by consumed more then once? or is it the total package....the time and place? the light and audience feedback? Those real and abstract characteristics which do not lend themselves to an audible only reproduction?
-bear