Scott Henderson Sounds off on Internet/Music Business

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While I do not condone illegal downloading... I fail to see how it is any different than copying cassettes during the 80s and 90s. Everyone here had at least one cassette tape that they copied from a friend when they were younger.

While people still love "music" as much as they always have, no one seems to value it anymore. The record industry is partly to blame for pushing the era of the "single" instead of pushing albums. I still love to get a new album and listening to it all the way through with a good pair of headphones. I love to soak in the tones and soundscapes that artists create. I love music. However, I am in the minority with how I feel about music.

To touch on the other topic of this thread for a moment. I don't live in LA or NY, so I can not comment about those scenes. I do, however; live in Houston - the fourth largest city in the US. The local scene here is horrid for an artist or band seeking to play original material. If you are a cover band, and you're good, then you can write your own ticket and pretty much get paid what you want to. Houstonians love their booty shakin' music. For guys like myself, in the original music scene... well, lets just say that things aren't as gravy. It took my former band, Savage Evolution, the better part of playing three years to build a solid following. We eventually had things to a point where we were drawing 100 plus people to clubs and drinking the bars dry. This allowed us to start making some money. Along the way, however; we played a lot of shows that ran us in the red. Opening for national acts like King's X, Boy Hits Car, Winger, Socialburn, etc... While these gigs put us in front of a large audience, they didn't pay at all. Some times you have to take one in the ass to help with the large goal. How much did you 80s LA guys make doing shows? At any rate. I guess that's my take on the subject...
 
brain21":kwsvkawg said:
People were talking about "what you were doing"
I assume I'm the people you're talking about.
Let me be more specific.
Bob is one of my fav players that ain't made it big.
Bob made an album that was for sale on line when it first came out.
After a while Bob made that album available for all to DL for free.
That was when I picked it up and I still enjoy it from time to time.
However, if he didn't make it a free DL, I wouldn't be able to enjoy it cause I hardly ever pay for music.
Not cause I steal it, but cause I'm still stuck in the 60s and 70s mostly.

YMMV and that's OK too,
Rob.
 
MOAAH":3hylax2y said:
Bob is one of my fav players that ain't made it big.
Bob made an album that was for sale on line when it first came out.
After a while Bob made that album available for all to DL for free.
That was when I picked it up and I still enjoy it from time to time.
However, if he didn't make it a free DL, I wouldn't be able to enjoy it cause I hardly ever pay for music.
Not cause I steal it, but cause I'm still stuck in the 60s and 70s mostly.

YMMV and that's OK too,
Rob.

Cool. Thanks for the explanation.

@Bob - if you look at most of my posts outside this thread, you'll see that they're not all Ph.D. Dissertations. :D :thumbsup:
 
brain21":gwilwu5e said:
Cool. Thanks for the explanation.

@Bob - if you look at most of my posts outside this thread, you'll see that they're not all Ph.D. Dissertations. :D :thumbsup:

Hey man, I didn't know following your posts outside this thread was necessary. ;)
 
All I know is that I unloaded about $100 on Paul Gilbert material last night and $35 on Devin Townsend. I get thank you notes from the HevyDevy betty that ships the disks and Paul is the man period so I support them.

Devin made 1000s of special packages and signed disks to promote his 2nd cd and it worked very well for him as he sold 1000s.

Both have used the internet well to further sales and guys like Paul are true to their craft and nice in person and that goes a long way.
 
Bob Savage":3pym5hiy said:
Hey man, I didn't know following your posts outside this thread was necessary. ;)

How did I know that you were gonna say that? :lol: :LOL:
 
brain21":3g9m92r9 said:
How did I know that you were gonna say that? :lol: :LOL:

Obviously, you were thinking ahead... or thinking back, or something.

Hey, what's the topic anyway? :poke:
 
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