Comment Re:Marketing versus Distribution. (Score 1) 139
The real money in music will be in live performance - which has been the case for a while for many bands anyway - it's only been relatively recently that Big Music has found wanna-be artists who are dumb enough to let them take much of a cut of their live revenues.
I think we can look forward to a really fragmented music scene - similar to the alternative/indy scene in the early nineties, when there was a lot of stuff about, but when people tended only to stick with what they listened to, and not cross over much.
And yeah, some musicians will be upset about this - I doubt that many bands into the future will ever make the kind of money that the Rolling Stones/Madonna/U2 have made(though they wouldn't under Big Music anyway) - on the up side, there's the potoential for a lot more bands to make some kind of reasonable living.
I think we can look forward to a really fragmented music scene - similar to the alternative/indy scene in the early nineties, when there was a lot of stuff about, but when people tended only to stick with what they listened to, and not cross over much.
And yeah, some musicians will be upset about this - I doubt that many bands into the future will ever make the kind of money that the Rolling Stones/Madonna/U2 have made(though they wouldn't under Big Music anyway) - on the up side, there's the potoential for a lot more bands to make some kind of reasonable living.
