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I prefer to beat air drums. Tried to start a band actually but it's hard to think of a name since Quiet Riot is taken.
The Silent Knights?
would all depend what genre you're air drumming in.
if you're a post rock Canadian wave band perhaps the librarian drum academy would but high brow enough.
mayby some retro 90's grunge with Mr Ssshhhh
or perhaps you'd like to re invent the madchester scene from pissy old chch on your parents money with some
bang bang sssshhhh
don't know if there's a hip hop equivalent cos they steal all their drum beats....
what? too soon?
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justgot round to finishing reading that article linked above which was in yesterdays press and a reprint of a may 10th article from the guardian
end of free - from the guardian
It is the music business that has been caught struggling in the web the longest. The decline in profits in the industry has been dramatic. In 2008, 95% of the music that was downloaded from the internet was illegal. The future, many believe, now lies in music-streaming websites such as Spotify.
Mike Smith, managing director of Columbia Records, believes his industry made a "fundamental error" in letting people think music was free.
"When you listen to streamed music through Spotify, somebody is still being paid," Smith says. "These things are only free as a way of selling their site to you, or their newspaper, or their brand. Unfortunately, a mentality has grown up in our society that believes an album is free."
and this
the public's search for "something for nothing" will go on forever. In the words of the Roman poet Juvenal, one of the oldest pundits available on the web: "All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."
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I prefer to beat air drums.
my mental image of this might not actually match the cold hard reality of it but it gave me a chuckle.
drumming including the air variety is all in how you hold your mouth while doing it. if you master that you have a solid career ahead of you, air on otherwise. -
I actually quite like you and it's getting us into areas we don't need to go to
I love you too bro,
.... man hug???
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is a bit bitter and twisted that there is no audience for the music his mates and scene are making and playing,
correct me if I'm wrong but haven't I made this point quite a few times already. its not that there is no audience it's that the audience expects to pay less. the gigs are full, but full of people wanting to pay less than they did way back in your day some time last century. contemplate the implications of that rather than being offended that someone pointed it out.
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Liking or not liking the genre is neither here nor there Rob.
apparently to you it is which is what's reeked about your comments on it.
And I'm thinking that not understanding it's importance or being an informed observer of what's happened since about '82 probably disqualifies you
and it would too, if it were true, but you know it isn't so you can drop that whole act.
I said I don't like it personally and I'm not denying its had a big impact but for you to say itsone of the most vibrant and important musical genres of all time
is a little premature, and possibly a little blinkered from your personal perspective. Russell was fairer with his "of the popular music era" comment and if he'd added on "in western culture" that would have been more on the money. but we're not here to pretend we're in the book high fidelity, so perhaps a little less of the my record collections better than yours might be applicable. I don't mind it to hype up the post count to 100 but really, where is there to go from here, 200 is not worth the effort I think you'll agree.
What's' yer fave Buzzcocks' B side?
"harmony in my head", but that was a double a side I think.
not a massive fan outside of that though. who needs the buzzcocks when we have the mint chicks. hang on, that whole cyclic music thing is going to mess with your imagined music high ground. I won't go there. -
a) hasn't liked or listened much to anything since 1982,
and how long has hip hop been around. didn't you say 30 years, so doesn't that same statement apply to you? you're still hyped by a genre that's been around for 20 years and to be honest hasn't progressed as much as it should have in that time. the wiff of stale is strong in this one.
besides I listed genres from all the years in between. MVB was 88- 92, iron and wine and surjan stevens is this century, etc etc.
But in a war of bitching technical details are beside the point. please continue with the the cat scratches, I'm kind of enjoying it.you're just upset that I don't see the world as you see it.
and chances are if you were to mention how hiphop was one of the greatest music genres ever half the population would look at you blankly. its one of the greatest from your perspective. ie western middle class, that's valid to you and I respect that. but the world is made up of all kinds. perhaps if you were to ask latin american or muslims countries how they felt about your claim you might get a different response.I'm not going to make sweeping generalisation about what essentially boils down to a matter of taste. I'll leave that to you.
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can't count
More like won't count. what the fuck are you doing actually counting 100 pages on a pointless discussion forum. have you not got drinks with umbrellas to be sipping on beach front apartment balcony's?
you give excess a bad name.101 is the completion of 100 pages. the first post on page 100 isn't the 100th page, its the start of the 100th page 19 posts later you reach 2000 posts and 2000 divided by 20 per page is 100.
or do you want to try some creative accounting.
I blame kyle, he insisted on this whole accuracy thing.
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You've never worked for one, so how could you possibly know what you're talking about?
that's not true. I used to deliver the super value circular to your mums house.
but you'll notice I wasn't actually commenting on it, I was just giving you experts on everything something to chomp on as you tell us all how you'd do it better.
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The end of the age of free
For a decade now, consumers have become accustomed to free access to music, films and information, via the internet. But with many of the media's big players - including Rupert Murdoch - thinking of charging for content, is the tide about to turn?