Roger and Pete in the News

[AKAMINE, Oswaldo]

Even if it's not serious, it's a pretty good article I think.

2006/8/23, L. Bird <pkeets at hotmail.com>:
>
> I'm just not sure this one is completely serious:
>
>
> http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/627675/a_tangled_web_out_there_for_bands_and_their_fans/index.html?source=r_technology
>
> A Tangled Web Out There for Bands and Their Fans
> By Jeff Vrabel
>
> Hey, remember Metallica? Nice kids, played the loud thrash metal, got a
> little piqued when some uppity dorm gremlins started snatching their music
> over the Napster for nothin'? Good times.
>
> The sound bites that emerged then from yappy drum hobbit Lars Ulrich --
> the
> ones about the artistic license and the creative control and whatnot --
> sounded lovely. But the fellas' image took a hit, what with the way they
> seemingly turned on their dwindling fan base to squeeze the last bits out
> of
> their revenue streams. (Also, they've sucked since 1991, but that's just
> me.)
>
> Anyway, having positioned itself pretty securely in the non- Internet
> camp,
> Metallica had remained one of the few remaining marquee bands to hold
> their
> music off online services (others include Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Tool
> and
> the Beatles). In 2003, a spokesman for the firm that managed the band said
> they "would rather not contribute to the demise of the album format."
>
> Yes! Take that, Short Attention Span Youngsters!
>
> The band stuck to its guns and kept its music off the Web until . . . er,
> last week, when it made its entire catalog available on iTunes.
>
> I'd make a joke here about Ulrich eating crow, but it's more likely he's
> eating sandwiches made out of money.
>
> Well, I say, kudos to Metallica! Kudos for finally realizing that the Web
> has much to offer when it comes to established musicians, even if it came
> six years late. You're doing far better than The Who, who are back for
> some
> reason and recently pulled the plug on live Webcasts of their current
> world
> tour because Roger Daltrey couldn't figure out how to turn on his iMac.
>
> Just kidding, although it's true that some sort of disagreement between
> Daltrey and Pete Townshend sank the idea; Townshend said Daltrey was not
> sure how "the Web has any real contribution to make to our career." (They
> had kinda the same problem with John Entwistle for a while.)
>
> This was a bigger deal than it sounds. The Who had employed a massive crew
> -- including, no joke, some of the technical team from the Lord of the
> Rings
> films -- to broadcast each show of its 66- date tour online. The problem
> was, from the sounds of things, it was Townshend who employed the massive
> crew, and at some point in the past few weeks Daltrey got around to asking
> what all the people with cameras, boom mikes and hobbit feet were doing
> there.
>
> "Roger is my partner in the Who," Townshend wrote wordily on his Web site.
> "He is not my partner in anything else. We love each other, but we are not
> regular social buddies like Bono and Edge, we do not discuss or share
> ideas,
> and we have no unified joint vision or strategy for the Who or for
> creative
> projects in general."
>
> It's this exact kind of unbridled, passionate emotional rawness that's
> making me really look forward to new Who material in 2006.
>
> Townshend goes on to write about 40,000 more spectacularly boring words
> about his publishing income and financial freedom, in case you want more
> of
> your youthful rock 'n' roll memories shattered.
>
> Speaking of that -- note the segue here -- the Rolling Stones had good
> news
> last week for fans who find the tinny AM sounds produced by their 3-inch
> PC
> speakers exceedingly crisp and lifelike, on those delightfully rare
> occasions the player doesn't get stuck on BUFFERING 37% for hours at a
> time.
> Yes, for just $1.99, you too could hear seven-minute chunks of the band's
> Paris show over your home telephone -- "My gawd!" you could say to your
> envious friends who are engaged in real conversation, "they're playing
> Honky
> Tonk Women!"
>
> And if you paid real close attention to that sentence, you have realized
> that to fully experience their satanic majesties through the raw power of
> your quarter-inch Motorola earpiece, you would have to call 18 or 20
> times,
> depending on how long the band has to pause mid-show to pour fresh human
> blood into Charlie Watts.
>
> Conservative cash outlay estimate: forty licks.
>
> All we need now is a Stones lackey to recast this hilarious patheticness,
> using terms only a joyless businessman could truly appreciate.
>
> "It's a great thing for the artists," Stones manager Marty Erlichman said.
> "It's passive income, and they're helping fans enjoy the experience
> without
> affecting ticket sales."
>
> Yes! Yes! Rock!
>
> Now all of you get off the damn stage, and let's have no more giving of
> our
> money to these people, OK?jeff.vrabel at jacksonville.com, (904) 359-4288
>
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