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Yeah, that letter was full of rhetoric… i didn’t say HOW this would help, or WHAT was going to be the new boon to this “dead” industry. Just that i won;t be able to afford a live show ever again…
And I hate people saying the industry is DEAD. ITS NOT! So stop whining. its changed, sure, but there are MORE bands now making MORE money than there EVER have been in the history of the industry. There are more bands in existence than even in history. How many 80′s bands had to have dayjobs? How many bands like XTC and the Ramones made NO MONEY during the supposed “golden age”. Do we see “A+ wealth” giants like the Beatles, the Stones, or Michael Jackson often? Maybe not, but those acts have always been rare. And we have so many more “A- wealth” acts out there; Metallica, U2, 50 Cent, Hannah Montana, Kanye, Coldplay… These crap acts are RICH in this “dead” industry… Hell I know local friends who don;t have to work and just do music for a living cause they have a few songs on MTVs Real World and such and make”tons” of cash off of it. Andy Partridge of XTC fame has made more selling his demos via CD on his own private label than he did off of XTC sales back in the 80′s; that should tell you something about the industry when it was “alive and well”. So CD sales aren’t everything, and they aren’t really that bad anyway, they are more dispersed if anything. And now you can make money in more ways than ever! (If your song was on a movie soundtrack in the 70′s or 80′s you probably didn’t paid or were paid nothing; now you get paid more than your song is probably worth). Maybe since tickets to a show will cost so much the bands should give out their “worthless” cd free at the concert? Sounds like a plan to me!
People act like Wayne is “pompous” because of his big crowd surf bubble and that he doesn’t play guitar… well:
A. The crowd loves the bubble
B. He has to be in a protective bubble so that he doesn’t get “crowd aids”. You see all that blood everywhere in the photo up top!?
C. He has said in interviews he is not the “musician” of the band, he is the “entertainer”, he isn’t good on guitar and he has said that himself.
D. He didn’t say they were bad musicians… He just obviously had some bad experience with them (first impressions are everything), and he said some stuff on the phone that should maybe have been kept private. But hey he DOES do a lot of drugs.. (or DID, but i bet DOES).