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#391 Re: The Sunset Strip » Illegal downloaders spend MORE on music than those who obey the law » 888 weeks ago
This is the biggest issue with the anti-downloader stats. They don't take into consideration that the impulse buys, they account for ALL sales. And that's simply not true, and never been their majority consumer. Yes, maybe they lost the impulse buy. But the reality is, those downloaders who don't buy... would've never bought it in the first place. They would've just went without listening to it, because they don't care.
They just want something for free. They don't really fall under 'music lover'
That's true in a lot of cases, but not entirely true. The problem is the industry will always point to that guy who has downloaded 15,000 albums and hasn't bought a thing in the last 5 years. They're out there, and they're music lovers. Just off the top of my head I can think of three that I know well.
My neighbor was looking for an album for a while, and we've talked about downloading things before. He asked me if I knew any sites that might be likely to have it, and I asked if he'd tried itunes at all. He looked at me like I'd suggested he pay $10 for oxygen.
The music industry will suggest that every downloader is this guy, and it's not true at all, but those people are out there in decent numbers.
#392 Re: The Sunset Strip » Illegal downloaders spend MORE on music than those who obey the law » 888 weeks ago
In the mid 90s(BEFORE the downloading juggernaut) is when the record industry priced them out of competition, and the outlets that still continued to move product were eventually told they could no longer even stock product from the labels.
You nailed that timeframe, because that was about the same time as the huge rise of the used store.
That was how just about every indie record store I knew of was able to stay in business, they had aisles of used cds, and about one aisle of overpriced new stuff. I'm not blaming the stores for them being overpriced, they had to price them like that to be able to make any money off them. However much I may have wanted to support them, I wasn't going to spend $20 for a mass released cd. If I was looking for something new, it's Best Buy, Amazon, or downloading. There obviously wasn't a big profit margin in the used stores either, because most of those are gone now too.
#393 Re: The Sunset Strip » Illegal downloaders spend MORE on music than those who obey the law » 888 weeks ago
If you care enough to download, you care enough to buy stuff too. Everybody else is happy just hearing the same 20 songs on the radio.
#394 Re: The Garden » Do you ever refer to your state by it's abbreviation?? » 888 weeks ago
I live in Iowa. Using the abbreviation doesn't really make it that much shorter.
#395 Re: Guns N' Roses » From sebastianbach.com » 888 weeks ago
However your suggestion of BLS on tour with GNR is a good one. However that would definitely have to be a Co-Headline thing. GNR can't open for BLS and BLS are too big to open for GNR, they're roughly on the same level. However they actually do have quite a similiar sound with both bands having a fair few piano ballad tracks and them both having blues rock roots.
I recently saw BLS with Mudvayne. I assumed it was co-headline, but it wasn't. A couple other bands played before BLS, but they played under an hour and their sound and lights were nil compared to Mudvayne. If they can open for Mudvayne they can open for GNR.
#396 Re: Guns N' Roses » From sebastianbach.com » 888 weeks ago
And I believe Slash is not as much of an Icon as a relic, He hasn't progressed from his GNR days,same tired blues riffs, same leather pants and stupid little hat.
Funny thing about the blues, it's pretty timeless. If he'd been playing like everybody else in 1987, he'd be where most of them are right now.
Instead he plays a style that's been around forever, and is the building blocks of what most rock n roll is based on and you can bend to fit pretty much anything.
I can't defend leather pants, but the hat looks cool, and at this point, for better or worse, more people probably think Slash than Abe Lincoln when they see a top hat.
#397 Re: Guns N' Roses » From sebastianbach.com » 888 weeks ago
For the record, the best song to come off that Gone Country show was the Bobby Brown song.
On topic, I'm one who has never liked Baz or Skid Row. I can admit the guy has a lot of power/range in his voice, but so does Mariah Carey.
My opinions aside, I think he's a bad choice for this gig for all the reasons already stated. Mostly being that I think if Axl wants to get any sort of modern appeal he needs to seperate himself from the 80's as much as possible. Baz doesn't do that.
I won't go as far as to call him as ass kisser, but he knows all the right lines to tow on the road to keep getting this gig. Because of that, I think it's a bad idea for Axl because it keeps the (possibly correct) impression that he's hard or impossible to work with/for.
A pretty good percentage of bands that have toured with Axl had some not nice things to say afterwards. Or during in FNM's case.
#398 Re: Guns N' Roses » 1st listen to CD in awhile... » 888 weeks ago
I would have not said nothing, but his review it totally of whack.
How so?
He seems to be looking at things pretty objectively to me. He's stating what it is he liked or didn't like about each song. You really couldn't ask for much more in a review if you ask me. (You didn't, but...)
Unless the only way you think he could have an un-whack review is by praising the album all the way through.
#399 Re: Guns N' Roses » 1st listen to CD in awhile... » 888 weeks ago
I think the album had a lot of potential. Some of the songs are structured well and only a couple are just awful.
IMO the album suffers poor production and over-production at the same time. Sometimes the vocals are just horrible (SOD, Madagascar), sometimes less would have been more. Much more. Tori Amos once said that if you rework a song again and again, then you can kill the original feeling out of it.
The album is full of later added, poor cut and paste parts, which don't belong to the original song. Fuckin' rerecord it as a whole, but these later recorded, coming from nowhere-going to nowhere parts kill the songs. Less orchestration, less Public enemy drum machine would have made a better result.
I could ignore some of its horrid production if he had actually put in the effort to redo the vocals on some of these songs. Using ten year old vocal tracks is just plain lazy. Madagascar is borderline 'scratch vocals'. So is Street of Dreams. IRS is as well but it gets a free pass due to that scream.
I totally agree with all of this.
I don't want to turn this into another "they should have done more with the release" discussions, but I recently re-watched the dvd that came with St Anger of Metallica playing the entire album live in the studio. It's so far superior to the actual album that it's not even funny.
This album could really have benefitted from something like that. A live performance would get rid of a lot of the obvious cut and paste/editing/production aspects that drive a lot of us crazy, but an in-studio/no audience performance would still have been very easy for them to keep control.
#400 Re: The Sunset Strip » KISS Sonic Boom » 889 weeks ago
Anyone listen to this steaming dog turd yet? I downloaded it last night and it sounds terrible. Not surprised at all by its lukewarm reaction. They are just going through the motions at this point. This sounds like a rejects album of tracks that didn't make it on to any of those 80s albums. Lyrics are terrible as well.
Danger You
Danger Me
Danger UsGet out of here with that drivel....
Yeah, I paid for it. I figured $12 for three discs you can't go wrong.
I think I got ripped off.
The funniest thing is, they printed the lyrics in the booklet! Why the hell would you think anybody would want to read these god aweful things.
