Comments on: Beefing up security during recording process

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Imaginary Lover

Make You Go Hmm: » Imaginary Lover — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:05:37 +0000

[…] Alas, getting out of the musical rut many artists are in is going to take people who stop living in the 70s and 80s and look at 2010 and beyond. I think some innovative and game changing ideas are coming. The days of make a hit record and sell the CD are, with few exceptions, gone. […]

By: TDavid

TDavid — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 04:40:00 +0000

Hi Peter I think it is just a matter of time before artists see the light for their fans and it is encouraging that artists like yourself already see the benefits in embracing the web as part of one’s marketing strategy.

I’m optimistic that the dark ages of online will be moving on within the next 3-5 years. With AOL soon/now offering journals where one can simply IM the AOL Journal bot and one click blogging from toolbars in the browser, artists who aren’t net savvy will become so. The underground isn’t going to completely go away but artists will that don’t think and act more about for fans who crave for as much information — rough or otherwise — of new material.

Just imagine if an artist were to put out a couple rough takes of a song to see what his/her fans thought of it first? It worked good for those American Idol contestants as far as singing songs rough, who weren’t even singing original material (well, a few exceptions)

This would help artists to commercially release CDs that weren’t only containing 1-3 good songs and the rest B-side filler, and on their websites market the B-side material. It will raise the bar for music and music afficiandos everywhere. It will bring the fans closer to the artists, and it will ring the cash register more, not less, IMHO.

By: peter marinari

peter marinari — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 04:13:00 +0000

I think you brought up an excellent point of getting fans connected to the studio and recording aspect of a record’s release. What you really see is a certain fear of intrusion into the creation process — either you have a pop icon who really doesn’t do a whole lot other than walk in and sing who is afraid to show that to people, or you have a control freak who really doesn’t want fans to know what they do to get to the final product.

I think bands like Garbage have struck good middle ground, with members posting from the studio about what’s happening, but it would be even cooler to ofer snippets of product along the way. Of course, the control freaks would rather DIE than have an unfinished mix circulate, and the record companies are afraid promo material is going to take the edge off of first week sales, which mean everything to them.

Ultimately i totally agree with you, and as a songwriter i would love to broadcast all of my music-related life 24/7 onto the internet so that people can witness it. I think we’ll probably see songwriting artists who emerge in the next three or four years be very open to this, as they will have grown up as performers in the Napster age.

I wish i had more time to focus my comments on this — maybe later.