http://truefire.com/blog/favorites/frank-zappa-on-the-decline-of-the-music-business/ Guitar Lessons, Insight & Inspiration Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://truefire.com/blog/favorites/frank-zappa-on-the-decline-of-the-music-business/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Max Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:55:31 +0000 http://truefire.com/blog/?p=311#comment-89 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. 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.

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