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Steve Lacy – 1995

§ January 23rd, 2010 § Filed under steve lacy, video § No Comments

Revenue.

Blog has been on hiatus due to technical problems with the hoster. This happened just as I was putting together my favorite tune o’ 2009 compendium. Such a task is formidible simply because I don;t go about my listening habit with much sense of what came out when, besides tracking the handful–no, two handfuls– of artists I follow closely.

Steve Lacy, (Wikipedia) who passed away in june, 2004, is one of those artists. In fact, I’d like to hear every note he ever played. (Steve Lacy @Senators.fr)

Something special, and even a bit unusual:

Son of Blubber

§ January 18th, 2010 § Filed under Music Business § No Comments

On the end of an era,

“I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn’t last, and now it’s running out. I don’t particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you’d be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history’s moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it.”

Brian Eno excerpt from interview with Paul Morley, On Gospel, Abba, and the Death of the Record (Guardian, OK Jan. 17-2009)