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     Paul Swinford Member Username: Prema Post Number: 14 Registered: 11-2005 |
In addition to its campaign against free music downloading, the New York Times now reports that music industry executives are turning their attention to guitar tablatures available for free on the internet. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21ecom.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Times must indeed be difficult for the publishing houses. While I am sympathetic to the intellectual property rights of musicians, an interesting point is raised at the end of the article. Seventy-five percent or more of songs are never published as sheet music. What about musicians who love such music and who take the time to transpose the music and want to preserve and share it? Anyone know if the Go-Betweens publisher have marketed guitar tablatures of the band's songs? | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 137 Registered: 08-2004 |
Several years ago I wrote to the Go-Betweens publishers asking whether a book of tablature was available. It wasn't. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 589 Registered: 05-2005 |
I believe there is a songbook release on the cards for GB's | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 493 Registered: 03-2005 |
The industry executives are ensuring the demise of their business. I look forward to their success in that endeavor. Recently I was trying to send some examples of Beau Brummels to Jeff W. Many of the US-origin discs were copy-protected. The brilliant reactionary minds in the U.S. record industry world simply made it harder for me to inspire someone to possibly purchase one of their products. For a number of years now I have been saying that I believe the advent of good, cheap digital recording technology coupled with the increasing capacity of the internet will totally liberate musicians from conventional record companies and most of the apparatus of the traditional music industry. Music will find its way back to the grassroots where it belongs. The NY Times report reinforces my belief. Robert Forster has recounted on several occasions how the finances of the industry worked for the Go-Betweens, how they had to PAY for the privilege of being the opening act on another band's tour and how, after their most commercially successful album during the first run of the band, they were playing in little clubs just to keep everyone going. The traditional music industry has not been beneficial to artists committed to their craft. What I think will crop up in place of the old regime will be cooperatives like the one set up a few years ago by Aimee Mann, along with My Space-type forums for exposure and exchange. And record companies with the collaborative attitude vis-a-vis both their artists and their customers--like Lo-Max--will also survive. Rapacious strip-miners like WEA, Sony, Ticketmaster and Clear Channel will choke on their own corporate vomit. | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 139 Registered: 08-2004 |
Great post, Randy. The aggression and narrow mindedness of the music business bods is due to fact that know that their business model is crumbling, and they haven't an ounce of imagination between them to come up with another. To my mind, the ITunes model is not a new business model just a watered down version of the old 'rapacious strip-mining' model of before. 99c for a single DRM-encoded, lossy-encoded song without sleeve notes or packaging - is just crap. On the other hand, I bought the latest Willard Grant Conspiracy album directly from the band site. The lead singer wrote an apology to me explaining that the CD may take a few weeks to ship because the band were on tour. It gave me the greatest satisfaction to know that the band were going to pocket most of the money I paid for that record. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 593 Registered: 05-2005 |
FYI from Tuition in Germany: We are working on a Go-Betweens songbook, which should be released before December. The songbook is a project that started as an idea last November, when the band played their second German tour for "Oceans Apart". From a nice conversation in a restaurant it turned soon into a serious project. Robert and Grant were total into it and provided us with ideas and enthusiasm. No one dared to think that all our activities and plans were put on hold after Grant McLennan's untimely death. The songbook will add another chapter to the fantastic Go-Betweens legacy. | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 140 Registered: 08-2004 |
Thanks for that, Spence. Great to hear that the song book is going ahead. I've always wondered who transcribes the material in song books. It's rarely the artist, is it? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 597 Registered: 05-2005 |
I once bought the transcript as a young hoodlum for Aztec Camera's All I need is everything and I fst realised that I needed a music degree to learn how to play it, I dare say Roddy never intended it to be that way so yes the artist isn't usually at the controls although I bet you the GB's will. |