Deregulation

djfoxyfox · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 11:35 am Post subject: Deregulation

I seem to be on a rampage since hearing Don Slepian speak the other night at the Princeton Songwriters meeting. I just wrote the following in a private message.

egw · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:20 pm Post subject: clear channel

Clear channel has very close ties to the Bush administration.

Some facts about clear channel here:
http://www.clearchannelbites.freeservers.com/

A list of their political donations here:
http://www.premradonline.com/pdollars.htm

Clear channel has been sponsoring pro-war rallies:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi-0303190157mar19

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 4:07 pm Post subject:

Quite possibly Genesis and the lot would never had any chance these days. There is an interesting analysis at http://www.airwindows.com/analysis/index.html. This guy has some very good points here. From a scientific view I guess there are some serious holes in some of the data.. but he does make a good case about his thing about artist development.. recommended reading. Hey.. this dude makes some seriously good software too.

One of the main problems is that the music biz has never solved the distribution issue. Most pro business segments work seriously with getting the product out there.. to the customers/consumers. Instead the music biz goes for a mass market.. or creating a mass market for their desired product(s). And creating a mass market for nonsensical artificial products is always expensive.

What makes most sense? Creating a market for a focused artificial product? -Or getting a diverse range of products out to a distributed market? Optimising the business for a global diverse distributed market is what I personally would think is the most professional approach.

Smile

Music is not dead.. just the business. Hmm.. I am pretty sure Buggles never recorded " The music biz killed the music biz".. Hmm.. ?

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 4:16 pm Post subject:

Guys.. I love this one.. http://elektro80.trash.no/graphics/GOD_BLESS.MP3

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject:

Ahhhh... right.... forgot this one.. enjoy

mosc · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 9:33 am Post subject:

The town I live in has, I think, 4 Clearchannel stations. The news coverage (sic) on the news-talk station, WAEB, is totally biased toward the Bush agenda. Every once in a while they get someone on to interview who is identified as a "liberal" - an adjective that means "stupid, intellectual, communist, terrorist scum bag".They usally interrupt them, insult them and identify them as anti-American or worse. Then they carry on about how great America is because, unlike any other inferior country, we have free speech, and how great they are for bringing us diverse opinions, even by poeple who support terrorists and Sadam.

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 3:14 am Post subject:

I picked up this piece of news at the Music Dish website:

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

At the risk of digging up a dead thread, I just wanted to mention that this sort of thing may not be as daunting and negative as it may at first appear.

After all, the sooner the status quo in the media achieves critical-mass, the sooner they will disintegrate. That's what I expect anyway. Ballast, ballast, ballast, and down it will eventually go. So it is with all things.

Cyx

mosc · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 8:26 am Post subject:

Interesting about dead threads. Some forums lock topics if they are inactive for a certain amount of time, say two months. You can still read them, but if you want to say something you have to start a new topic. It makes it easier to follow the site if you are a frequent reader. Our site is relatively new. I haven't felt the need to do this. This is a short thread, so it was easy to catch up and review, but I can see it might be different if the thread was 3 or 4 or more pages long.

Anyway, Cyx, you have a very good point. It's probably healthier for us to notice these things without getting negatively affected.

At a Landmark Forum class I recently attended, they said that when something is constant or unchanging, like breathing, we tend to ignore it. Certainly this is the case with commercial radio.

This is something we must just deal with, like anything else we can't control, not fret over.

Still, I wouldn't mind seeing Clearchannel go broke, or at least blow a fuse.

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Yes, it's when things move at a snail's pace when we tend to not notice. Of course, we have a reason to notice, we have an agenda, albeit a healthy and noble one, as opposed to the millions of other's with a "why should I care? What's the big deal, anyway?" attitude.

Cyx