Well I've been doing my bit for the old music.
Me too. The old, supporting the old.
And I still want to have it on a disc, in full sound quality, and to be stored ready for retrieval, instead of being located and played by the use of a 'click'.
"Old" music is forever though.
I hope total sales of Dark Side Of The Moon were more than 50000
Barnes and Noble is building its vinyl supply
I find it ironic that older artists cannot get airplay or television appearances today.
Okay, lets not make n issue out of this.
http://musicconsultant.com/music-new.../#.VqgqGUX9fCQ
Less money for artists and labels
It breaks my heart to hear that legends such as jerry butler can't get a recording contract.
One of the things I read is they aren't how most artists make money anymore
I've seen Jerry a few times over the past decade and he sounded good to me. But still, I probably wouldn't buy a new cd of his unless he was selling it at his show and I wanted it signed.
Often I've bought a new cd by an older artist, played it once, didn't think it was so hot, and then went back to their oldies.
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I think the sad thing is for our classic artist is maybe thier caught in the middle musically,how to sound hip enough for today's audience but yet have enough of the classic sound for the oldtimers.
It's the same as how Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and the Andrew Sisters etc. sounded to us - OLD!
At a Christmas Party this year, I was told that some young people can identify music from the 60's because it sounds OLD!
What I think is a shame is that there were a certain tier of artists out there that didn't have lots of hits but had a few or maybe wrote a few and there was a time when they had a little retirement income out of it ~ and after the 90's, the income went kaput. And if they want any income at all now, they have to join an oldies tour and sings their hit or their 3 songs or find little gigs at any old place in the country.
R Dean Taylor was on here for a while and said the money he got out of Love Child as a writer and producer got divided up so many times that it didn't mean much. But if you could put that together a few times, it at least gave a person a few dollars.
I don't want them to update their sound for the younger generation. The music always suffers when they do. All they need to do is do what made them great. If the music is good, the younger generation may come. Same thing with remixes. The revised music just doesn't last.
Me too per Butler and anyone else I've liked. Why not? They shouldn't be bought cause they're older? Gladys, Mary, Patti and Labelle and many others sound just as good if not better than they ever did.
Too much technology[computorized music]not enough live in studio musicians.
Exactly!
The thing I like about Wilson Pickett's last album was that it was played by a real band.
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