Usenet Newsgroups Re: My method against music piracy From: 0junk4me@bellsouth.net On 2010-09-06 kludge@panix.com(ScottDorsey) said:    >>Would agree, and when you couple that with too many    >>performers recording self written material who haven't honed    >>their skills performing live before an audience not a very    >>good song becomes a not very good production as well.  NO    >>arranger, no producer, no engineer, combined with unrefined    >>talent equals dreck.    >I don't think that has changed.  What is different is that back    >then, folks would shop their dreck around and nobody would pick it    >up for distribution.  Today folks put it on the internet and get    >distribution. RIght, or as Hank notes, on the web which isn't quite distribution actually, as he notes, tens of thousands of songs up but never downloaded. The difference, at least in popular forms of music, was that you'd write some songs, play them along with the usual material at the clubs.  Those that garnered the best audience response were often cut on a 45.  fOr the younger set that's the disks with the big hole in the middle, usually holding one 3-4 minute song per side <grin>.  Which meant you spent your limited studio bucks for a good sounding pair of songs to go on a 45 and then ran off a thousand somewhere, sold 'em off the bandstand and gave some away.  IF a & R somewhere picked you up then you recorded the other also ran songs, but you at least tested those tunes before real audiences, as well as honed your performance skills.  These days nobody wants to pay to hear you play, no pressure's on, don't get paying gigs, cool sit in your basement with your windows box and be a rock 'n roll legend in your own mind. Regards, Richard webb, replace anything before at with elspider ON site audio in the southland: see Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Subject