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Saturday, August 3, 2002
Will blog for tunes 
| | It's been more than two years since Courtney Love gave her famous speech, which concluded with this: |
| | I'm looking for people to help connect me to more fans, because I believe fans will leave a tip based on the enjoyment and service I provide. I'm not scared of them getting a preview. It really is going to be a global village where a billion people have access to one artist and a billion people can leave a tip if they want to. |
| | It's a radical democratization. Every artist has access to every fan and every fan has access to every artist, and the people who direct fans to those artists. People that give advice and technical value are the people we need. People crowding the distribution pipe and trying to ignore fans and artists have no value. This is a perfect system. |
| | If you're going to start a company that deals with musicians, please do it because you like music. Offer some control and equity to the artists and try to give us some creative guidance. If music and art and passion are important to you, there are hundreds of artists who are ready to rewrite the rules. |
| | In the last few years, business pulled our culture away from the idea that music is important and emotional and sacred. But new technology has brought a real opportunity for change; we can break down the old system and give musicians real freedom and choice. |
| | A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot. |
| | Internet radio tried to help, but the feds and the RIAA are holding it under water until the bubbles stop. |
| | The fans won't be so easy to kill. Nor will the artists, producers and other involved folks for whom "independent" is an increasingly meaningful term. |
| | That these folks include music-loving bloggers is the great insight of Eric Olsen, who has created the Blogcritics Project (no direct link yet). Basically, it comes down to this: free CDs in exchange for reviews. Or something like that. Read about it here. More progress reports are here, here and here. |
'Night
| | Here's how it usually goes: 1) the kid and I both go to sleep at the same time, looking at the stars from our rocking chair on the roof; 2) I wake up in an hour or so, carry the little guy downstairs and tuck him in bed, then head downstairs to my office in the back of the garage; 3) Since my blog is on East Coast time and it's past midnight there, I put up a few items in the next day's series while I catch up on email and cringe at the work I need to do; 4) I finally go to bed for real, where my wife has been waiting since she crashed about the time I took the kid to the roof. |
| | Tonight I slept on the roof for almost two hours, but we went up there after an evening of heavy Mexican food, dancing, and other Fiestavising, so now I'm so tired sitting in my office that I can't get my eyes to look in the same direction. Every time I blink it's like I just woke up. |
| | So that's my excuse for not posting a damn thing yet today. I'm too tired. And, looking back, I think that last piece I put up yesterday wasn't half bad (and it was a big'n too). So I'll llet ya'll catch up on that (like Tom Poe already has) while I catch up on my unconsciouness. |
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