A Big Reason for the Existence of Indie music.
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009To go back further in time, the only way to listen to a person(s) music was either to go see a live performance, or listen to a live radio broadcasts. This, of course, only offered a “one-time” enjoyment of one’s music. There wasn’t yet a technology which allowed for “business-minded people” to fully capitalize, or exploit the pleasure that Music provides for consumers. The creation of the record soon solved this dilemma. Finally,musicians like Duke Ellington’s Big Band’s, songs and performances could be put onto “something” and sold to the very high demanding consumer. This surely led any popular musician to quickly be picked up by some record label, like Columbia Records, who knew how much money they could reap from taking anywhere from 60-80% of an artist’s record sales!….(Hang in there, I’ve almost made my point)
We all know that “Indie” is not really considered a genre, or at least it shouldn’t be…(yes, you may “agree to disagree”). What I am trying to say is it was not the musicians, who created “Indie”, instead it was the markets, or whatever. It was the the record labels after suffering the profit losses from things like Napster in the 90′s and beyond, who ultimately said screw signing these ”good bands” to any type of record labels because they wouldn’t make us as much money, since people could just downloading it for “free”. Instead, it is only crappy ass bands that producers knew would sell who were getting signed to big record labels; i.e. your John Mayers, Nickelbacks, Fall out Boys, ect…So, it is unfortunate, in some aspects, that a lot of the REALLY good musicians of today, can’t experience the same types of successes that other bands once had in the 60′s, 70′s and ect. All because of…well I don’t really know who is too blame. Mother Nature?
Just an opinion, by the BK Broiler.
