Usenet Newsgroups Re: My method against music piracy From: 0junk4me@bellsouth.net On 2010-09-08 walkinay@nv.net(hankalrich) said: <snip>    >> there are worse models than the '30s and '40s snake oil* model,    >> only instead of snake oil, one might consider flour, furniture    >> or farm products to be flogging.    >> *not actual snake oil, but a business model based on snake oil    >> salesmanship from the more distant past. A "you gotta know the    >> territory" sort of a business model...    >King Biscuit Flour Hour, etc.    >Worked well at the time, and something similar might work today.    >However, there are precious few products of any kind that I would be    >willing to flog, and almost none of them are marketed on a scale    >that would support the old model.    >"Thanks, folks, and now a word from Fire-Eye Development, makers of    >the Red-Eye acoustic instrument preamp"... <g> RIght, and the folks with products to flog are looking into more bang per buck venues to flog their products.  SHows are expensive propositions to keep on the road and maintain a quality performance.  That advert you cut at the studio or make the video for can be flogged until it's reached the point of oversaturation, then you better have another advert to throw at the rubes that makes 'em watch it.  YEs PEarl Jam might play the Verizon arena in some city, but Verizon gets their advert out of their name on the arena, whether it's PEarl Jam, Hank Junior or college basketball. <snip again>    >> But back to Bo, maybe these here machines aren't very good    >> at generating actual community.    >That's a solid possibility in spite of the fact that although I have    >never seen you I consider you part of my "community". I read an    >article this morning that covered a research project looking into    >how today's "digital generation" youngsters feel about community    >and their friends. Turns out that the assumptions of the pundits    >are amiss. For the most part the kids place much higher value on    >face-to-face personal interaction with their friends than they do    >on any social networking site. The exceptions, from another study,    >are those who are very insecure and/or neurotic. Those folks    >apparently are much more likely to become addicted to online    >"socializing", which relieves them of having to deal with real    >people in person. Would agree.  Which means that you can't get traffic to your web presence unless you're playing gigs, and actually entertaining the punters.  still it's live performance that creates the buzz, and that buzz creates traffic. And, this gets back to the point I was making to Scott. music written performed and arranged in isolation is often music that sucks.  Music that is tested before an audience is usually discarded if it doesn't go over, or eventually recorded and sold.  THat part of the equation is what's missing. k Richard webb, replace anything before at with elspider ON site audio in the southland: see Subject