Bon Jovi Thinks Steve Jobs Killed Music; More Old Rockers Shooing Those Darn Kids Off Their Lawn
from the change-is-hard dept
I guess it's just natural as people get older that they pine for "the way things used to be." However, it does seem extra silly when it comes from rockstars, who generally have a reputation of bucking the system and changing the way things were done. The latest to step into this ring appears to be Jon Bon Jovi who is blaming Steve Jobs for all that is wrong in the music world. Apparently, his issue is with the fact that people don't buy records any more:Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.... God, it was a magical, magical time... I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: 'What happened?' Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business.At least he recognizes he sounds like an old man. And it may have been magical for him, but what about all the people who bought the album based on the jacket and it turned out to be crap. You know what many people think is actually magical? That they can listen to what they want, wherever they want, and being able to find and access all sorts of new music they might never have found out about otherwise. I don't know, but it strikes me that today is a much more magical time in terms of what the fans get.
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Sonny or the U2 one???
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Yeah. I agree.
But, I believe (no proof) that U2's Bono pioneered the use of AutoTune and that hasn't helped music much either.
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Damn you, Sonny!
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Is he serious?
If that's the music industry he wants, I'm glad it's dead. Somebody put a couple more rounds in it for good measure.
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I've spent the afternoon listening to Pandora and looking up singers I particularly enjoyed on Amazon.
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People aren't doing it because they CHOOSE not to.
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And now I am waiting for an electronic world where all music is hyperlinked and accessible in an way that affords the artists a living. I do miss album art though.
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So how did you find new artists? By PIRATING YOUR FRIEND'S ALBUMS?
Home taping is killing music, folks.
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(I also enjoyed the random insult, although if I were you I wouldn't be throwing those around with the quality of arguments you've displayed here thus far.)
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Ah yes, that terrible and fast-approaching day when we will all wake up to a world devoid of music! When everyone will throw their iPods to the ground and chant "Bring Back Vinyl!" When kids in their rooms won't bother practicing the guitar, because what's the point if you won't get to design an album jacket one day?
Oh horrible portent - tell us Bon Jovi, whose words have been duly marked, how do we avoid this awful future?
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"The year-end SoundScan numbers, released today, have a lot of minus signs. But one big exception is vinyl sales: While the numbers aren't massive, they still rose 14% from 2009 to 2010, according to the Nielsen Company and Billboard's 2010 Music Industry Report. In 2009, 2.5 million vinyl albums were sold; in 2010, that number rose to 2.8 million and cracked the Nielsen SoundScan sales record."
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/retail/vinyl-posts-14-sales-gain-in-2010-1004137891.stor y
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And as you said: not so much brickwall limiting nonsense, because physically, you can't drive a mix that hard on vinyl or it will literally make the needle bounce out of the groove. The width of the grooves also forces a certain limitation to how "bassy" the mix can get.
Vinyl is great for older recordings, too, since you get to hear the music in the format the artists were recording for specifically. Hearing Beatles vinyl absolutely puts the modern CD remasters to shame. The depth of the mixes is stunning on the original masters. The vinyl need not be original pressings, either, it can be a 70s/80s reissue and still sound great. (FYI, the late 80s/early 90s are considered by many to be the height of recording fidelity)
The artwork is more impressive on the jackets as well, plus older records often came with all kinds of neat stuff that you can still get when you buy used records. Posters, magazines, ancient catalogs, it's fascinating to sift through, if you're into that sort of thing.
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What he thinks was lost is wrong. It has now broken free of the old limitations. The old limitations are what was killed, not the love of music.
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I agree despite the fact that I'm a record collector.
Because honestly, one small external hard drive filled with FLAC's, or an an entire basement filled with milk crates of records?
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http://www.synthgear.com/2010/diy/how-to-pirate-a-vinyl-record/
Best of all there is no DRM possible on that crap although it sounds awful, with all the clicking sounds vinyl is still good for some things I guess I just don't know what.
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There was the experience of browsing the record stores, running into and meeting cool kids. Record stores were cool destinations and in of themselves.
None of that experience has yet to be created with digital distribution.
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What was it Aaron Sorkin said? "Social networking is to socializing what reality TV is to reality."
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I use all three and none really recreate the record store experience for me (as an over the hill 35 year old). But, then again, what can recreate the cool experiences one has as a 19 year old...
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Which takes us back to my original point. No one has seemed to fully re/create that yet for me.
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
It's a different generation's time.
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The cool thing about digital distribution is how you can create online 'record stores', or communities, and talk about music with people from all over the globe.
Yes, plenty of people just skip straight to the music, but those aren't the sort of people who would have spent time in record shops either.
The internet is enthusiast heaven, for music and a million other hobbies.
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Is it because of the Wall of Pay?
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From the sounds of it I haven't been missing much though.
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http://www.cultofmac.com/sorry-bon-jovi-steve-jobs-didnt-found-napster-editorial/86419
A nd it doesn't go in the direction you think it will. The payoff?
"In short, JonBon: “This Left Feels Right” killed music. Steve Jobs is the one who helped you profit from that murder."
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Yep, magical indeed....until you rocked out a bit too hard while you were staring at that album cover and bumped into your turntable, producing a deep 6 inch scratch across your album, leaving you with a whole album side that skipped and repeated....magical.
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Interesting...
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The wonderous new world
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Stuck with a whole album.
Now? You download the songs you love and you are in complete bliss.
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the beauty of taking your allowance money
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Magic...
I used to buy used CD's or records all the time, because you could actually listen to them first in store and make an informed decision. How much of that money spent on used music go to the artist, none.
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What Magical is Not
Magical is "What is this one? Holy shit, this is awesome!"
Besides, Bon Jovi is blaming Steve Jobs for ruining music? Pot, meet something not black. Triumph said it best: "Bon Jovi is great... for me to poop on!"
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So incredibly well said!
Nothing to me is more enjoyable in the world of music than a friend sending me a youtube link, me thinking 'ugh i don't really want to listen to this right now' but clicking on it anyway, then feeling the giant grin spread across my face...
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Nowadays, we just IM each other.
Me: "Check out this band"
Friend "OK I'll download it."
More convenient, yes, but I do miss the social part of it all.
The social aspect has kind of died.
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What has been happening in the music industry is basically a long overdue market correction...which they are fighting every step of the way.
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I think the really revealing point
"in a generation from now people are going to say: 'What happened?'"
As if the upcoming situation is the aberration, and the not-quite-a-century of a recording industry (and only-little-over-half-a-century of Rich Musicians) is the historical norm.
Mick Jagger understands the situation better I think:
http://www.switched.com/2010/05/17/mick-jagger-talks-tech-gives-the-finger-to-the-recording- indust/
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I don't know, but it strikes me that today is a much more magical time in terms of what the fans get.
I have a device in my pocket the size of a small matchbox, with 133 hours of music on it, and a pair of gel-capped earbuds that let me feel the bass in my chest - that's magik.
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"Magical Moment"
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Ah yes, the good ole days..
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(sorry - this whole story kicked up the ghost of my Grandfather and I was channeling for a moment)
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He has his leather panties in a bunch...
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as more indie's break out though, we'll get better music. and that is now easier than in the radio + tour days.
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The Hell?
Magical? Not the adjective I would have used.
What's magical is the duping this band did to get millions to pay for CDs to which many only enjoyed two songs, and that's being generous.
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The unmagical time was, when we recognized we were listening to one of your albums, "Cowboy".
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Buying music based on the cover art
You had to buy based on cover art in the crappier stores, especially if you were buying a non-mainstream album in a genre like punk, since the clerks often knew nothing about it.
Everything else idiotic about this crap musician's statement has already been said in the comments before this one.
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Yet another ignorant Jersey Shore denizen.
Check out this lyrical flatulence:
It's all the same, only the names will change
Everyday it seems we're wasting away
Another place where the faces are so cold
I'd drive all night just to get back home
[Chorus:]
I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive
Sometimes I sleep, sometimes it's not for days
And the people I meet always go their separate ways
Sometimes you tell the day
By the bottle that you drink
And times when you're alone all you do is think
[Chorus]
I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back
I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all
I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted dead or alive
I'm a cowboy, I got the night on my side
I'm wanted dead or alive
And I ride, dead or alive
I still drive, dead or alive
Dead or alive [x4]
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit...
BTW Jon...You're not a cowboy...you're not even close, you're from effing Jersey.
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My musical landscape is a pile of groupie bras in the back of the tour bus.
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1) Music was analog, much better! Remember digital is just sample. It's not the full deal.
2) It was a bit of a treasure hunt to find music worth spending your cash on. Reading the album liner and looking at the cover art. Listening with someone that had been "the first one to buy". These thing all made that perfect album, perfect.
3) Finding the non-hits hidden on the album that became your favorite. How many times today does someone pay to download a song they don't necessarily like and it grows on them? That was the beauty of buying an album.
I'm sure that kids today will have their special memories also. Like "I remember when we use to have to carry our music in little boxes with a wire to our ear and only 15k songs on it.
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Rose-Colored Glasses?
I guess you can pull whatever audio wave you want to prove it to me, but at the current sample rates from iTunes I really can't tell the difference so much that I would spend my spare time weeping over the loss, or blown away by the gain.
2) It was a bit of a treasure hunt to find music worth spending your cash on. Reading the album liner and looking at the cover art. Listening with someone that had been "the first one to buy". These thing all made that perfect album, perfect.
May I argue Selective Memory? How many 10 foot holes did you have to dig up before you hit gold?
3) Finding the non-hits hidden on the album that became your favorite. How many times today does someone pay to download a song they don't necessarily like and it grows on them? That was the beauty of buying an album.
I kinda agree with you there. I think that many a hit is just an introduction to something better. Personally, I pull up the album that has the single, and sample everything else. Typically I find a song or two that has low popularity, but's really good.
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2) Many holes for sure, kind of like downloading a $.99 song and hearing it played everywhere the next two months and never wanting to hear it again. Many holes but many diamond, silver and rubies along with the gold and holes.
3) I guess we'll never again hear the term "released as the B side of X record, this song went on to be their #1 hit..."
There are only some things I miss about the old days and I think that's is partly what Jovi was saying. There are good things about digital too. File sharing, MP3 players, downloads, are all great. With Napster I did discover many (mostly old) artist that I ended up purchasing and/or enjoying their music. Will they destroy the music industry... maybe. Will there still be music...yes. Will there be another Elvis or Beatles (artist that last over 20 years) I really have my doubts. They were created after all by the music industry! Is that good or bad...I don't know. Is it as good to have an great artist that no one hears because there isn't any marketing...again, I don't know.
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Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but by the time Jon Bon Jovi was a hit, his band wasn't on vinyl, but rather on cassettes and just switching to CDs. If he is remembering his childhood of vinyl, then why is he blaming Steve Jobs? iTunes didn't have anything to do with the death of vinyl and you can look at cover art on iTunes just like you could on cassettes and CDs, so Im not sure what kind of acid trip he is on.
Personally I don't remember EVER buying a record based on the cover art. I may have bought an album and thought the cover art was cool afterwards, but I bought based on some song I heard on the radio or heard about through friends.
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About a year ago he did an interview on NPR's Fresh Air. A coworker was a big fan of his, and I referred her to the website so she could listen to the archived audio. There was a message there saying that the audio could not be archived due to "contractual obligations" or some such crap. I've never, ever seen that with any other interview.
He's a fossil. Good riddance. If that's music, I hope Steve Jobs feels well enough to dance on its grave.
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BTW, who buys an album base on the art work on the jacket?
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This.
"the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like"...
...Then getting home and realizing that the record was pure and utter GARBAGE, and you had just wasted your hard earned allowance money. Nobody wants to pay for crap anymore, but that's all the major labels want to put out.... it really is. that. simple.
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he's right
And books, same basic thing. You'd look over their collection of books and pick one, skim through it.
Tactile culture.
Speaking of books, I still occasionally go the library and look through the stacks to see what might be of interest.
Accidental culture is replaced by invisible culture.
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Now, one thing that's kinda sad is that the culture is so diverse now. You used to be able to assume most people watched a decent show on ABC last night at 8pm. Now, we're moving away from watching our media at scheduled times, and there is not a LOT more media. But the good news is that the good stuff is bubbling to the top, so there is still a "mainstream" set to media to cling to as a culture.
As for the tactile nature of media... I think technology can catch up in some ways by making things more fun to hold.
But, maybe it's better that we define our culture and ourselves by our interactions with others, our societal accomplishments and our independent thought than by our collections of fictional works and rhythmic noise.
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Accidental culture is just the way I described it, finding an album or book in a friend's collection that looks interesting.
Also, browsing in a bookstore or library. I can't tell you how many books I've bought/borrowed by just looking around in a bookstore or library. As everything goes more invisible, the less chance you have of finding that.
Amazon, Pandora. Netflix et al can "recommend" books, records, movies, but as good as that is, what is lost is the thrill of accidentally stumbling upon something yourself.
I looked forward to hitting the used record stores each week not knowing what I'd find. I remember one find, "Quacky Duck and his Barnyard Friends." Yes, it was the cover and title that made me pick it up. What I found was that it was a record by a bunch of name bluegrass players that just got together to cut a light, fun record.
I also picked up the original London cast recording of Rocky Horror before anyone knew what that was. Yeah, it was the cover.
After I sold my record collection I wished I would have held onto those weird obscure records that will never, ever see the light of day again, in any form.
Oh and one final thing, I was my own DJ when I had my records. At times, especially when people were over, I would play one song at a time from different albums, taking the next one out while another song was playing. And other people would scan the collection and pick out records and suggest songs. You can do that now with a few clicks and sit back. But with that old school method you were actively involved in each song, one at a time.
I'm a huge tech fan. I do it for a living, but there are some old school things I miss.
Okay, I'm finished ;-)
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Except when you go to a friends house and are browsing through their MP3 collection and spot somoene you've not heard of. You chat about it and play a bit. Hmm that sounds somewhat familiar.
Also the accidental findings, I've lost count of the number of tracks I've bought as a result of hearing them on random YouTube videos or them being suggested by Last Fm. I didn't hunt them down, thy came to me.
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Name an artist you like to a service like Pandora, and just watch as new stuff you might be interested in starts popping up in your playlist.
Record stores moved online, but that doesn't stop you from browsing through sections looking for new stuff like you used to in an actual brick and mortar store.
A sense of nostalgia over something does not make it better.
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I'm so happy I don't have to blow $5 on vinyl and cardboard, only to find one song that I like.
I'm glad the day of one earpiece am radio is gone, and that ow I can have all the music I want to listen to at hand.
To hell with the old, in with the new.
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You can open Grooveshark, just start typing stuff and it starts playing damned near instantly. Plus, it's easy to find related or similar things. That's fucking magic.
Spending $15 on a disc with one decent song is not magical.
Now, there is something to be said for *good* albums - 40+ minutes of 12 songs with a similar theme, or even a complete symphony like Pink Floyd albums. That's something you miss out on by buying $0.99 songs one at a time.
But you know what does albums well (sometimes)? Grooveshark :)
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how much?
.....as much as an ipod is now! then you had to buy tapes and those got lost, wore out, and eaten.
it sucked.
i dont like steve blow jobs one bit but he didnt do a thing to make music cost prohibitive for people as you state.
and he wasnt the first to do that so would not even deserve that credit if it were true!
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...place shifting in the 70s.
Cheap enough that a kid with a paper route in a working class neighborhood could easily afford one. They weren't nearly as expensive as an iPod.
Keep in mind that there was nothing to drive a Sony dominated market here. You didn't need to get your "walman" from Sony. Any cheap knockoff would do. All devices all played the same media.
There was never a time when only an Sony Walkman could play an audio tape. (in contrast to the Apple situation)
...as far as "tapes" go, it was really very trivial to copy them. If you lost or destroyed a tape, you really have no one to blame for yourself. Infact, it was even easier than it is now. All you needed was one of the ubiquitous dual cassette decks for a home stereo. Press play on deck one and then record on deck 2.
Instant rip/copy. No computing skills required.
The same people that ask other people to copy Photo CD's for them now were able to deal with copying tapes.
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Look inward and you will see what killed your income. YOU!
You suck, you haven't put out a good album since your first. And now you talk this crap cause you can't compete.
ID10T error!
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You're missing the point
Steve Jobs has done a great job for the music business, but both Steve Jobs and file sharing had killed the passion for buying music albums.
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Someone up above mentioned that sales of records actually increased last year, and I bought that statment without even reading the report. It's actually a little easier to find a record player right now in my town than a cassette player, and in the music shops that remain (definitely less than before, but that's change for you), new records are are on the shelves. Not quite as much real estate as the CDs, but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere soon.
So maybe not everyone browses racks and and listens to entire albums, hunting for the song they can't help but listen to over and over again. Maybe not everyone was cut out for it? I know that I like the new way of doing things much more, and have actually bought more music since I bought an iPod than before. I realized fast that I didn't want to shell out my hard earned dollars for the songs I didn't want.
So maybe there are less people doing the album thing, maybe that's for the better now, because although it's a smaller population, it's now down to the people who had a genuine love for it, than just doing it because they had no alternative.
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Magic?
Dropping 5,000 songs into your pocket and going about your day.
Getting a tweet directly from the artist.
Hearing a Bon Jovi song you hated remixed by someone else in a way that surprises, thrills, and makes you appreciate it.
Going to a place where you can not only see the album artwork, but keep up on what the artist is doing, look at photos, watch videos, read the lyrics, see tour dates, send fan mail, buy t-shirts, and basically interact with the artist in a way you NEVER could in the old days.
These are magical times.
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Think you listened - think again.
Lots of people say they download the songs they like from an album, but what about the rest of the songs? You never cave them a try if you didn't listen to them in the right context...
Also, IMO, too much music these days are made for the charts and iTunes, not for the experience of an album, or to be played out LOUD on a Stadium.
AND
If you think you listen to music when you have an earplug in your ear and are out running, driving, cooking, taking the bus etc. Go think again.
Listening to music as an art is when you go through the whole experience. You choose the product, you get exited and can't wait to buy it, to listen to it. You open the jacket, take out the book, read the book, follows the listening guidance. Gets excited.
You place yourself comfortable in the best chair you have, turns up the speakers and dives into the song, the music the artist. Leaves everything else outside.
If you haven't tried that, you have never given the musician a change to tell you their story.
Steve Jobs, he killed that excitement.
So am I a BJ fan, yes I have their albums and go to their concerts, but I'm not a huge fan.
I'm a fan of good and blessed musicians and I do rate Richie Samboras album "Stranger in this Town" as one of my by far best musical experiences ever.
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more to do?
My friend still collects vinyl and I laugh at him. While he searches for that awesome scratched up album I've already played 3 songs from different bands on my ipod.
Greedy musicians, producers etc are killing the industry... just as the greedy athletes and owners will kill sports franchises... more to do than spend your $ on this people who consider you stupid & naive
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Bon Jovi Thinks Steve Jobs Killed Music
With this economy, a person might walk away from buy the entire CD.
MJP
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