Klarinet Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 2006/02
From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] That's music?
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:23:52 -0500
But Mark,
have you ever read little book by lawyer Donald Pressman "All You Need to
Know About the Music Business?" And at the bottom of the dust jacket Rollin
Stone mag touts that it "should be required reading for anyone planning or
enduring a career in the 'biz.'"
It really isn't everything you need to know, it is just the stuff that a
lawyer thinks every musician needs to know, and that's what I'm getting at:
the BUSINESS, the REALLY BIG BUSINESS of how selling yourself out to pay
bills may be selling yourself to something worse than the devil.
And do you remember the Stones at Altamont in '68 or '69 when Mick did this
demonic schtick about being a disciple, if not son of satan and wearing a
black Dracula type cape and supposed whipping the kids up into a frenzy that
resulted in the death of one person and the "security guards" -- the Hell's
Angels going nuts and beating that poor kid to death?
I mean I am an old Deadhead, and the Dead were supposed to play at Altamont
right after the Stones, but when Jerry and Bob Weir saw what was going on
they just said that the scene was too heavy and split, and good for them,
but that's not as if they can be absolved from other weird stuff, especially
where Kesey and the Hells Angels are involved.
I'm not putting you down for doing what you have to do, but you have to also
take a step back and look at it from a different angle sometimes too, like
why am I doing it this way any way? I mean playing bass as a pick-up in a
Bluegrass band when you're a trained blues or jazz bassist is just going to
bore you to tears probably, unless you have eclectic musical interests. And
not everyone has. I know I don't.
But thats the point we all have to do what we have to do, and we have to
make the best of it, no matter what, and you did what you had to do to get
to where you are today. But the Stones didn't have to do anything really,
except really to sell out at a young and impressionable age and then go on
being teenagers well into their adulthood and old age. Same was true of
Jerry Garcia, and even Bob Weir. I mean it is nice to see them making
music into their 50's and 60's, but when its re-run after re-run and very
little new stuff, you have to wonder where the love-light went.
Shalom,
Rafi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] That's music?
> Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller wrote:
>
> >That is what I would like to know, what exactly do people continue to see
in
> >Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney or any of the lot?
They've
> >come and they've gone as far as many of are concerned leaving little but
> >trash in their wake. I mean look at what "Rock and Roll" has evoloved
into,
> >if we were to say the same for Classical Music and look to people like
> >Philip Glass, or another Baltimorean Christopher Rouse, we could either
say
> >hurrah, or feh. But be it dissonant or harmonic, classical or
avant-garde,
> >contemporary or post modern it is still more music than anything that the
> >Rolling Stones, the Beatles or any of those drones ever put out.
> >
> >
> And some people wonder why they're considered music snobs.
>
> If you don't like rock & roll, why pan it? Just ignore it. It's ignoring
> you ... personally, I'd rather make nough money playing covers to live
> and then play my favorite music for essentially nothing. I didn't
> especially care for C & W, but it payed the bills. I wasn't about to
> bite the hand that fed me.
>
> Come to think of, that's whay I _did_ do for a few years. Until I
> changed careers.
>
>
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