Comments on: Welcome to Music 2.0

By: Lewis Green

Lewis Green — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:12:04 +0000

Tammy,
Lilith Fair it is. Thank you. An amazing comcept and event. We need more like it.
Lewis

By: Tammy Strnatka

Tammy Strnatka — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:55:50 +0000

How is this affecting the European music scene?

By: Tammy Strnatka

Tammy Strnatka — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:36:18 +0000

Lewis, Are you trying to remember the Lilith Fair? That was a beautiful piece of marketing by Sarah: She showcased that female artists are powerful enough to carry an entire concert event without any predominantly male bands or musicians.
I saw the tour in Phoenix. I cried like a baby all night long. It was amazing.
I have been a singer songtwriter for many years and performed all over the U.S. and opened for some amazing big name acts. I of course never made it big, but I tried. I do have 5 releases in europe. Anyway… me me me.
Mack, thank you for such a great blog and alerting me to my need to “Embrace the chaos, or be consumed by it. The future of the music industry lies in the hands of those labels, artists and individuals that are brave enough to relinquish control today.”
CK But aren’t we fortunate to be seeing the disruption (revolution?) first hand?
Yes! We are!
And Mack, I have many friends who could greatly benefit from this blog and I am going to forward it to them…Some of the more dilligent musicians in my life that still might just make it and those who have made it who need to look for ways to hang on.
Remember: Rock on Tucson!
Tammy

By: Mack Collier

Mack Collier — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:53:05 +0000

“Alas these co’s will have a devil of a time letting go of control, but it’s nice to see such examples. It will be a long, hard-won battle. But aren’t we fortunate to be seeing the disruption (revolution?) first hand?”
Yep, and it’s cool because you can tell that these companies/labels/firms/whatever are going to be the leaders moving forward in their industries. Be fun to watch MSM suddenly catch on and start reporting on them as if they suddenly took off, when in fact they’d been planting the commmunity-empowerment seeds for years.

By: CK

CK — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:16:50 +0000

Mack: I’ve started to look to you as “the music marketing guy” as you do your homework, and are so passionate about it, to boot.
This line from your post really resonated: “Embrace the chaos, or be consumed by it.”
Alas these co’s will have a devil of a time letting go of control, but it’s nice to see such examples. It will be a long, hard-won battle. But aren’t we fortunate to be seeing the disruption (revolution?) first hand?

By: Lewis Green

Lewis Green — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:06:30 +0000

Mack,
I completely understand your feelings regarding celebrity stories. For me, these memories have more to do with reviving and reliving my youth.
No reason anyone else should care.
BTW: The women mentioned above were great people and nothing unsavory, as far as I know, ever took place with the musicians mentioned, other than companionship. Hard to believe, perhaps, based on all the groupie stories out there, but true. These women were not groupies and truly cared about these musicians.
Lewis

By: Mack Collier

Mack Collier — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:09:00 +0000

Great story Lewis! Actually I’m not too big on the whole music-celebrity angle, but I would love to meet Sarah, I’ve heard she’s very down-to-earth and a great person. And what she did for the video for World on Fire was simply amazing.

By: Lewis Green

Lewis Green — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:54:59 +0000

Mack,
You are one of the good guys!
My first-hand knowledge of artists having to fight for what was rightfully theirs comes from a three-year stint between 1970 and ‘73 as a Road Manager for a house/slash warm-up band. It was brutal.
I met Sarah through Starbucks sponsorship of her tour (sorry, I am old and forget the name of this famous women’s tour). No reason for her to remember me: She struck me, however, as sincere, giving and incredibly talented.
Mack, I hope we can meet some day. My experiences range from our band warming up for the likes of Joe Tex and Chubby Checker to less-than-I-want-to-share-publicly material about women-who-”dated”-stories regarding Johnny Winter and Rare Earth. (That’s right, the entire band.)
Rock on,
Lewis

By: Mack Collier

Mack Collier — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:30:00 +0000

Lewis check out the interview I just did with Terry McBride at The Viral Garden: http://moblogsmoproblems.blogspot.com/2006/10/viral-gardens-interview-with-nettwerks.html
What Terry is doing is advising his clients such as The Barenaked Ladies to sign under their own label, thus retaining far greater control over their own music, giving them more money, and the ability to sell their music in many more forms, and even give it away if they like.
I’ve been talking to members of Nettwerk’s management for almost a year now, and I honestly think that the label is going to become one of the major players in the industry within the next few years. Their business model totally embraces and empowers both the artists and their fans.

By: Lewis Green

Lewis Green — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:37:02 +0000

Mack,
I am a music junkie: Thank you for the post.
Personally, I maintain a wait-and-see attitude. Having seen my peers and friends screwed by agents and labels, I fear fans may be in line next to do the screwing.
Artists should be paid based on their creative work. My fear is that as fans get used to receiving free music, they won’t want to pay for it, no matter its form.
Lewis