Instead of going to the club, why don’t you come over my house.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve got
some records to play you.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re not going to dance.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m going to turn the
lights down low, you’ll probably only see the glow from the amplifier, we’re gonna
sit on the couch and revel in the SOUND!<\/p>\n
By accident, I pushed the button for FM on the head unit in my car.\u00c2\u00a0 I got
Uncle Joe Benson giving an introductory spiel to John Fogerty.\u00c2\u00a0 And playing not
"Run Through The Jungle", or even "Born On The Bayou", but one of those famous
Creedence hits.<\/p>\n
Or maybe it wasn’t Fogerty at all.\u00c2\u00a0 My memory fails.\u00c2\u00a0 All I know is Uncle Joe
earnestly told his story, and then played a track EVERY person listening was
guaranteed to know.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what radio is today.\u00c2\u00a0 All tune-outs have been
eviscerated, to the point where YOU’VE tuned out.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve switched to your iPod.\u00c2\u00a0
But iPods sound shitty in cars.\u00c2\u00a0 And, it’s all the tracks you already know.\u00c2\u00a0
You want to hear something new.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if it’s old.<\/p>\n
I was driving up 20th Street yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 Ironically, right by the Sony
building, I heard this fantastic SOUND!\u00c2\u00a0 It sounded like a COUSIN of Led Zeppelin.\u00c2\u00a0
Something from that early era.\u00c2\u00a0 When Englishmen escaping factories put their
heart on the line on vinyl.\u00c2\u00a0 They’d studied the works of the delta bluesmen
that their peers in America had ignored.\u00c2\u00a0 And what resulted was this strange
amalgamation of rock and emotion.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t earthy like the work of the bluesmen,
but it had soul.\u00c2\u00a0 Because the people singing and playing, like those old
blues masters, they MEANT IT!<\/p>\n
Supposedly Terry Reid was the number one candidate to front Led Zeppelin.\u00c2\u00a0
But he wanted to go solo.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe Bonzo insisted Robert get the gig.\u00c2\u00a0 And even
though we saw Terry’s records in the bins, the one or two songs we were ever
exposed to on the radio…we just didn’t get it.<\/p>\n
It was different thirty five years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 The only way you could hear a record
was to BUY IT!\u00c2\u00a0 This is the paradigm the big labels love.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s what their
game is BASED UPON!\u00c2\u00a0 They say they want more music exposed, but not really.\u00c2\u00a0
They don’t want the COMPETITION!\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, if the radio played one more act of
THEIRS they’d like it.\u00c2\u00a0 But NOBODY ELSE SHOULD GET AIRPLAY!\u00c2\u00a0 This is the EXACT
OPPOSITE of the Internet paradigm.\u00c2\u00a0 On the Internet EVERYTHING is available.\u00c2\u00a0 And,
since there’s such limited focus, everybody is so spread out at different
sites, hype doesn’t work.\u00c2\u00a0 You just can’t REACH people.\u00c2\u00a0 Word of mouth is the
key.\u00c2\u00a0 Releasing something SO good that people will tell each other.\u00c2\u00a0 Turn each
other on.\u00c2\u00a0 You don’t turn someone on to a dance track.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe you put it on and
bump up against them, but you don’t lay the needle in the groove and wait for
their jaw to DROP!<\/p>\n
And, when someone tells you about something good, if they don’t e-mail it to
you, you go on a P2P service and take it.\u00c2\u00a0 You check it out.\u00c2\u00a0 Because you
trust your friends.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to BELIEVE in things.<\/p>\n
That’s the way things are now.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite what the RIAA is feeding the media.\u00c2\u00a0
It’s not about teaching kids to pay for music again, it’s about the labels
realizing the game has changed.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ve got to release quality, the single is
not as important as the album, as the act’s TOTAL OEUVRE!\u00c2\u00a0 People want to
BELIEVE!\u00c2\u00a0 FANS want to believe.\u00c2\u00a0 And make no mistake, this business was built on
belief.\u00c2\u00a0 You had to believe to wait all night for tickets in the back row.\u00c2\u00a0 And
be thrilled just to be in the building.<\/p>\n
Having bad times Can you imagine Paris Hilton singing the above lines?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s all she’s got Being rich ain’t all it cracked up to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Makes you suspicious of others’ XM is my best friend.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not like terrestrial radio.\u00c2\u00a0 The satellite So, take my advice, follow my hint.\u00c2\u00a0 Download Terry Reid’s "Rich Kid Blues".<\/p>\n Don’t pay for it.\u00c2\u00a0 You might not like it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve never ever found someone with Who knows, you could become a believer.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Instead of going to the club, why don’t you come over my house.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve got some records to play you.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re not going to dance.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m going to turn the lights down low, you’ll probably only see the glow from the amplifier, we’re gonna sit on the couch and revel in the SOUND! By accident, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-2C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am paying dues
Got you the money
Good friends too
Always played to win
And always seemed to lose
That’s why I think I got a rich kid’s blues
That’s why I think I got a rich kid’s blues<\/em><\/p>\n
is her wealth.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s got no education, no intelligence.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s
two-dimensional.\u00c2\u00a0 If her life is one of happiness, I’d be stunned.\u00c2\u00a0 Endless parties.\u00c2\u00a0 Endless shopping.\u00c2\u00a0 To the twits who follow her it might sound good, but anybody with a brain sees her life as vapid.\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s how our government and media WANT us.\u00c2\u00a0 Dumb.\u00c2\u00a0 Consumers.\u00c2\u00a0 Thinking is anathema.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s SCARY to them.\u00c2\u00a0 But,
thirty five years ago it was ALL about the thought.\u00c2\u00a0 John Lennon and Grace Slick didn’t test the wind before they made a public pronouncement, they always spoke from the heart.<\/p>\n
motives.\u00c2\u00a0 And what did that famous song say?\u00c2\u00a0 Money can’t buy you love?<\/p>\n
service turns me on to new stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Constantly.\u00c2\u00a0 And, the fact that some of this
material is DECADES OLD bothers me not a whit.\u00c2\u00a0 Since I, like the teen musos, know
that all the good shit was cut EONS ago.<\/p>\n
the same taste as I.\u00c2\u00a0 But I’m hooked.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, the chorus is pedestrian, but the
verses are pure magic, and that Hammond B-3 will slay you.\u00c2\u00a0 Just pure ooze,
unlike the processed sounds of today.<\/p>\n