skip Heller wrote:
on 6/10/03 11:08 AM, Perfect Sound Forever at perfect-sound@furious.com wrote:
Unfortunately, very few of the bands who started out on indies stayed in indie-land if they started to make some headway in the marketplace.
Even worse, most of them couldn't stick around long enough to sell out! ;-)
Unfortunately, it was the very thing to which you point up -- the corpo-culture ties -- that defined punk rock's truer stance, which was that a new generation of rock stars had indeed arrived.
Yeah, I guess that is true as they quickly had their own hegemony.
I have it on really good authority that the Clash's management was in a bit of a bidding war with several labels and that it was largely based on if a Sex Pistols record was actually going to be released etc etc etc and that a lot of money and promotional consideration was revolving around whose record would come out first. Remember -- as great as the Sex Pistols' music was, their public presentation was designed and executed by Malcom McLaren, a fella whose artistic integrity is not on par with Tim berne's.
All true I'm sure. The same was true of Gang of Four also though they did start out with an indie (Fast). However, the Pistols, Clash and Go4 were still able to make great, influential music for the big bad majors. Conversely, some indies behave more badly to their acts than majors do (i.e. SST, Sympathy for the Record Industry, ESP) though they do give these acts a chance to record and be heard. Best, Jason -- Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine with warped perspectives http://www.perfectsoundforever.com