At 10:15 AM 4/26/2003 -0700, skip Heller wrote:
While I agree with you on some levels throughout your post, I wonder if it's a bad sign that people are getting less upset -- "desensitized" might be the better word.
When I encounter old punk rock songs used in the service of selling cars -- high-end cars, no less -- I really feel like someone has sold the formation of my ideals up the river.
Hi Skip, I totally agree with you. Before, I was just trying to share some observations and not necessarily making judgment calls about this. I don't think these are good trends and I think that they may degrade the quality of this music in peoples' minds. When I heard stories like the one mentioned here about Eleventh Dream Day (great band), you really have to wonder. When an artist enters the marketplace, be it on a major or indie, they're engaging in the business of music at some level. I can point to certain instances, as I was trying to do before, where I think some artists have stepped over the line of going from reasonable promotion to media whores but I don't know that there necessarily can be any hard and fast rules for saying 'this is good practice' or 'this is bad practice' which applies in all/most instances. If someone disagrees and has a definitive road map for this, I'd love to see it! Best, Jason Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine with warped perspectives perfect-sound@furious.com http://www.perfectsoundforever.com