17Sep/091
Frank Zappa on the Decline of the Music Business
Frank Zappa gives his take on the decline and fall of the music business. He comes to a surprising conclusion that the older generation was better for pushing new wave music that they didn't understand than the supposedly younger/hipper music executives. What do you think?
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September 17th, 2009 - 23:55
Leave it to Zappa to think exactly the opposite of the conventional wisdom and be exactly right. Have you seen concert posters from the ’60s – Miles Davis, Albert King and Jimi Hendrix (and yes, Zappa) on the same program! People (the old guys!) weren’t afraid to mix it up then – everything now is categorized and must be aimed at an existing market or demographic – that doesn’t work for the advancement of art – new and creative art creates a market that doesn’t exist until the artist is permitted to create it and distribute it and the public discovers it.