Very Poignant Quote from Vince Gill

[manninghollow]

My daughter has that fart app on her Kindel Fire. It's pretty cool. She once played "Eye of the Tiger" with the toots. I thought about using it in some tunes but then I thought I might get sued for copyright infringement. I sample my own farts now.

[eeoo]

"Everything is free now, that's what they say,
everything I ever done, gotta give it away.
Someone hit the big score, they figured it out,
they were gonna do it anyway, even if it didn't pay..."

Gillian Welch

[jdhogg]

Some might find this interesting

http://www.writethismusic.com/the_truth.htm

[manninghollow]

I agree. I'm gonna do it anyway,pay or no pay.

[88keys]

I recently posted this quote on my F.B. site as well. It definitely carries significant weight when someone of the stature of Vince Gill lays it on the line.

A bit of a "pile-on" recently with Steve Lukather's recent venting :

http://mikeec.tumblr.com/post/241720508 ... like-it-is

and, this recent article on the "death of a&r" :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oc ... of-a-and-r

[feaker66]

Just think, if would have thought a little more out of the box when I wrote "gassy rudolph"?????

Could have created assapp.com

Woops, excuse me

Paul

[matto]

I prefer the sound of a fart to the sound of the average current country record.

To be honest I would rather sniff a bad fart than listen to the country top 10 for a solid hour.

What a lot of artists need telling is that they are making things worse by insisting on promoting their own sub-standard piffle.

The songwriters are also not blameless as the industry will still take GREAT songs.

This type of statement is honestly more depressing than anything else. The general public's notion that music isn't worth anything may well have started with musicians themselves...musicians who tear down their fellow artists' work because it's not their cup of tea or they are jealous of others' success or they think it somehow makes them cool to dis those who have 'made it'.

Just like musicians handed those who would steal music the argument that 'it's okay cause we are just stealing from the big bad record companies who rip off musicians', we now apparently feel the need to make the general public's case for them that music isn't even worth 99c a pop...

You'd think that knowing how much it takes to succeed in this business would make us a bit more sympathetic to our fellow artists' struggles (and more supportive of their success), but apparently that is too much to ask...

Sad.

matto

[DesireInspires]

You'd think that knowing how much it takes to succeed in this business would make us a bit more sympathetic to our fellow artists' struggles (and more supportive of their success), but apparently that is too much to ask...

Sad.

matto

Things like musicians putting one another down are not surprising at all. Musicians, along with American society as a whole, is selfish. People only really care about how they are doing. Those that show sympathy for others are considered weak.

[jdhogg]

People only really care about how they are doing. Those that show sympathy for others are considered weak.

DI

I think you need to find new friends.

There are good and bad people in all countries.

[DesireInspires]

People only really care about how they are doing. Those that show sympathy for others are considered weak.

DI

I think you need to find new friends.

There are good and bad people in all countries.

True.

But my point was that overall, America is becoming more selfish.