maxim wrote on Mon, 26 December 2005 04:19 |
bob o wrote:
"The only thing anybody can expect to get paid for is entertainment value."
you amaze me with your cynicism
did your first wife make sculptures only in order to get paid?
and while we're not on your forum in the marsh pit, i'll say this too:
MUSIC IS FREE!
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In order to explain one or two things to some of the people that totally missed the cleverness of Bob O statement I wish to start a new thread and make his detractors realize that they should always think twice before disagreeing with the man ( that would apply to Dan Lavry : "you can disagree and be wrong forever... ever...ever...ever....)
In France, we had a very popular songwriter and singer name Serge Gainsbourg that even you americans might have heard of that made a distinction between "minor" art and "major" art that was quite controversial at the time.
to resume : minor art is an art that does not require education to be understood (punk rock would applied) and major art does (like Bob O wife's work, Mozart, Miles Davis etc ). It's not that an ignorant lad could not be "touched" by Michelangello sculptures, it's only that he doesn't have a clue about understanding "why".
Pretty elitist but true nevertheless.
Are american Idol participants artists ?
Well, I'm not sure. Looks like a football team with coaches and an armada of "media specialist" to me.
I would consider most of the music we are working on in our craft as "marketing" more than "art".
Now to respond to maxim and every poster here that really thinks music is indeed free as the air we are breathing, I will say this : Free for you to hear music out of the wind in the trees or the sea waving on the beach, but still there is such a concept as intellectual property.
While you can be an artist in your bedroom, making or not a living out of it is irrelevant to this debate: Your music is free if you, as an artist decide (or not) it is so. If you think otherwise, you are indeed close to retardation.
"The only thing anybody can expect to get paid for is entertainment value."
indeed it is true, and not even remotely cynical.
To close this post, I might remind you that we, as recordists and mixers, are NOT artists (we're not all musicians here, right ?). Merely artisans providing quality tools to the artists when we have the chance to meet them. And it is not everyday, sadly.
malice
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