Posts by Simon Grigg
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waking to this was a wee bit of a shock. Ben added to my ramble exceptionally well I think. Reading though, what were at best random thoughts. I perhaps didn't make my affection for NZ obvious enough. So...I love Auckland as a city, and as a gathering of people, and the country its in. And its worth pointing out that leaving for a spell, and returning every three months are so as I do, has not made me any more mouthy about the flaws or strengths of the place.
Sure, kiwis in general get stick about alcohol, and "not being able to socialize without getting drunk" ... I suspect we're worse than some societies, but better than others, in that respect.
The consumption of alcohol scares me somewhat but far less than the litany of stories and personal brushes I had with the letter P. In the three years I've been gone it seems to have cut through Auckland like a scythe and folks who have no involvement with that or any other 'scene' are having to deal with its effects..like the woman I know who's flatmate had spend the last two months rent on the drug without the rest of the (adult, well employed) flat knowing until the owner came knocking.
I hate hearing this sort of crap and I encountered these sorts of stories over and over again.
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"Dodgy downloaders lose web access in file-sharing shakedown"
LONDON - Britain could follow France in cutting internet access to users who repeatedly download music or films illegally.
Dyke meet finger.....Canute meet wave
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biggest indie bands around a profit but had a 65% no pay portion, it might pay not to put too much faith in that approach once the novelty of it has died down.
BTW Radiohead are saying, in the recent Mojo, that figure is substantially wrong
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A large part of the pro piracy argument has been majors are evil and have been ripping off customers etc.
you weighed in on that with they are inherently evil and didn't really go into details on your personal dealings with them.a) I'm not going to discuss things like that on a public forum
b) my argument was that the standard recording contract is inherently unfair, not that majors are evil. I don't think I'm alone in suggesting that. A couple of minutes perusing a standard contract circa 2005 would lead pretty much all observers to that conclusion. But as one major player in a NZ major said to me about five years ago..of course they are are unfair but we have the power so take it or leave it. The power has now shifted and leaving it has become a viable option...perhaps the best option.This could go on and on..best we leave it.
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isn't this why you hate majors?
who hates majors? I certainly don't
lets dumb the numbers down a bit to say where the 50th band to try the honest box approach. total downloads 10,000
65% stolen, band makes a loss on its recording and site admin costsif the 50th band tries this and looses then they are the dumb ones. Simple as that. That band shoulkd be as smart as radiohead and adjust the system to suit.
And Radiohead invited people to take it fore nothing if they wished. It wasn't stolen, it was gifted. With that they made more money and had their biggest album for yonks and still managed a US #1 album.
These are actually very good times in the music industry..its a time of renewal, of revolution..its what we needed. More please.....
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although a comparative success to previous dealings its still a massive failure on its own level.
I wish you'd point out how. You seem to be the only one saying that, everyone else is smiling.
think you've got a bit of a 'dire straits' blinkers issue on U2, which is kinda funny cos one of your biggest bands was a U2 clone for the first part of their life, even had similar haircuts.
which is relevant how? The criticism of Paul's comments has been both wide and voracious and none of the rest of them managed The Screaming Meemees for heaven's sake.
My only point was to his hypocrisy, which still stands. U2s support of the iPod gave it a massive boost at a time when the industry was already making big noises about what was on them.
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He may have done some good in the good old days but his work since then has tainted his legacy, he put the fake in fake music.
Are you talking about Farian or Napier-Bell now? I'm confused and really can't see what your point has to do with anything. I don't want to play cards with any of them to be frank.
If you are talking MV? Really, the joke in all that was on the American industry..who gave them a grammy for gods sake...I mean everyone else knew, right? Arista in the US even added vocal credits to an album that had none, much to the surprise of everyone concerned.
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u managed to track the band down then you surf the indie circles....how can you not know what radiohead sound like, and trial on their myspace if you like, or there's radio and mtv who have never been shy of their stuff. pretty lame argument for not dropping a schekle in the bands begging cup.
But Rob, it worked for them..anyway you look at it, it was a resounding success for Radiohead.
Bands are making much more money by opting out of the system and the contractual binds that that system entails..and its not just Radiohead, its a raft of acts across all sorts of genres. Contrary to major label spin the music industry is actually coming through all this quite well.
U2s problem is that they are a part of a system whose time has passed and they simply are reacting against that.
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other than 4 very key years in development in technology had passed. does time and change make any dent on the hypocrisy meter?
you mean apart from the lawsuits being handing down by the RIAA at the beginning of 2004 for file sharing and the fact that the iPod was three years old in 2004 and being widely vilified as the repository of much of this shared data at the time U2 signed their deal (and they were criticised in the industry rather strongly for doing so as you'll recall), no.
I wonder if Paul's comments have much to do with the sales disaster that was the last U2 hits album everywhere apart from NZ?
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And apparently Boney M at least performed their live music
I've actually been hanging out a fair bit in recent months with one of Moroder / Farian's in-house musicians (who has some incredible stories and photos as you'd expect). All the recorded music was done by Farian, and indeed much of the MV album was an unreleased Boney M album.
Live, bits and pieces were real but only the lead vocals for most of the pre-90s. It was, for all intents and purposes 100% Farian's creation.