[NewMusic] Bassist Paul Rogers on improvised music

[Phillip Greenlief]

No, I'm pretty sure the article said that her sales (at that point, which was about a month after initial release) were at 60,000. I know that's a LOT more than any of us sell, and I wasn't feeling sorry for her...no way! - Merely pointing out that the difference between "us and them" (I hate that way of looking at things) isn't quite as radical as it was even a year ago.
   
  And yes, Henry is right. Just look at the deficit Bush has run up. It's going to take a long time and a long recession before the economy changes for the better. But I'm actually not worried - I don't have investments, I don't own real estate - I could care less if the middle class takes a nose dive. They deserve it for sleeping through the murderous rampage of Bush the Second...
   
  PG

weasel walter <weaselw at juno.com> wrote:
  > I was reading that Alicia Keyes (sp?) new album, which is on the 
> Top 10 Billboard charts has only sold about 60,000 copies so far. 

dude, she sold 60,000 copies in a WEEK! my heart bleeds for that. 

there's too people playing "musician" right now glutting the market with
all their aural crap and this is some sort of natural selection. we're
all going to be getting hit pretty hard by these conditions. the only way
the music scene is going to reach new equilibrium is by making it so
tough for musicians to survive that nobody wants to do it anymore and the
superfluous hangers-on drop like flies. the only way music will be cool
again is by becoming so uncool that only the people that really have to
do it are doing it. 

henry kaiser said to me a few weeks ago, "brace yourself - it's going to
suck for about 10 years". given his four decade observation of the ups
and downs of the music biz, i believe he might know something i don't
know about this whole mess. 

brace yourself for survival conditions. 

ww
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