[NewMusic] Don't reply to Quechup invites

[Robair, Gino]

In that article he says:
<<The thing to be now is untraceable," he told me. "Wipe every reference to yourself off the internet. >>

In an era where we often overexploit ourselves online, I find this sentiment appealing. Especially in an artistic sense where, perhaps, one would not record his/her music, wouldn't release his/her music in any format, and perhaps wouldn't even play in public. But one would still live with the same artistic intensity that you'd need to be competitive in a music marketplace -- just work completely "off the grid" so to speak.

Another fantasy of mine ise a "band" made up of a huge pool of musicians - say, 200 people. And rather than release music under their own names, they would always use one band name when they recorded and released their music, as well as for live gigs. As an example, let's call this "band" something -- perhaps, "The Beatles" for discussion's sake. 

Maybe "The Beatles" would end up playing at 3 or 4 venues on the same night, and in several cities at once. And the band would flood the market with dozens of releases a month, with outrageously different music on each, which was in complete disregard to other "The Beatles" releases by the various mystery members (all of whom are free to join or leave the group at will, and are under no obligation to tell anyone their status). And the same four "band members" are always listed as the creators of the music on a "The Beatles" release. 

Perhaps such a mega-member band exists. Just don't say yes to Quechup.


-----Original Message-----
From: "Travis Johns" <electric.tokyo at gmail.com>
<<it's a pretty decent article regarding this whole social networking
thing - not to mention one of the few times when I can honestly say
that my opinion of Momus has wavered to something beyond the usual
status of "self-absorbed blowhard." Take a gander - there might be a
pop quiz on this later in the week.

here's the link:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/imomus/2006/04/70717
>>