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If you have not seen this yet, please do so promptly.\u00c2\u00a0 Fascinating.<\/p>\n

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’<\/a><\/p>\n

Famous Toby Mamis<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shove this up your ass Bubble Boy.<\/p>\n

What bugged me about Will Pugh’s e-mail is his denigration of a 200,000 member core audience.\u00c2\u00a0 He was worried without the bubble stunt his new CD might only sell 300,000 copies and his label would consider it a flop.\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, if Charlie Walk is your God, you know you’re in trouble.\u00c2\u00a0 Broadcasting, reaching the masses, those days are THROUGH!\u00c2\u00a0 Hey Will!\u00c2\u00a0 Norah Jones is the only one with a platinum record this year, good luck!<\/p>\n

If Epic is too dumb to see that they’ve got to go niche, change their business model, does that mean Will Pugh, a seemingly honest, dedicated musician, should submerge his values and throw in with them?\u00c2\u00a0 Is that the only way?<\/p>\n

Of course not.<\/p>\n

Toby Mamis doesn’t send me links constantly.\u00c2\u00a0 And I know this guy.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what friends do, hip you to good shit.\u00c2\u00a0 So I’ll check out what Toby has to say.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas if I don’t know you, or you send me too much, or what you like sucks in my eyes, I ignore you.<\/p>\n

I was positively stunned.<\/p>\n

Oh, at first I thought it was a Jewish thing.\u00c2\u00a0 We Yids hang together.<\/p>\n

But it’s not.<\/p>\n

What did Robert Krulwich say on his TV show?\u00c2\u00a0 That rap is the music anybody can make?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not going to debate that, for fear of e-mail abuse, but let’s just say I wouldn’t consider "Thou Shalt Always Kill" in the same league as the Beach Boys and the Beatles.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s less music, and more performance art.\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, there’s just as much creativity in this ditty as there was in "Revolution 9".<\/p>\n

That’s what’s wrong with the major labels.\u00c2\u00a0 They only want what they can sell.\u00c2\u00a0 Something that’s creative, that’s outside, they just pass over.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s this stuff that gets to our gut, it’s this stuff that makes us think, it’s this stuff we’re drawn to.<\/p>\n

What possessed this guy to make this song\/video?\u00c2\u00a0 And his delivery, it’s not rock star poised.\u00c2\u00a0 He doesn’t look like the guys on MTV.\u00c2\u00a0 He looks like you and me.\u00c2\u00a0 He MEANS IT!<\/p>\n

But now, armed with a digital video camera and YouTube, he can REACH you and me.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s already got 339,126 views as I write this.\u00c2\u00a0 How many people does Will Pugh think WATCH MTV?\u00c2\u00a0 When music is playing in the afternoon?\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of hundred thousand AT BEST!\u00c2\u00a0 You can reach your core on YouTube, doing what YOU want, and maintain your credibility!<\/p>\n

The only criterion for gaining viewers being that you’re good.<\/p>\n

What is good?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it the ability to play well, is it the ability to write catchy songs?\u00c2\u00a0 All those count, but first and foremost, it’s the ability to STIMULATE people.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s why Jessica Simpson can’t sell a record.\u00c2\u00a0 The original hip-hop, before it delved into cars, money and ho’s, had a vibrancy, an honesty, absent from rock and roll that couldn’t be denied.\u00c2\u00a0 THAT’S why it was successful.\u00c2\u00a0 "Thou Shalt Always Kill" has got this same tuning fork characteristic.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve thought about some of these subjects.\u00c2\u00a0 Others?\u00c2\u00a0 God, he’s right!<\/p>\n

Why do you go to the bar?\u00c2\u00a0 Are you trying to get into a girl’s mind or pants, and which comes first?\u00c2\u00a0 And, if you’ve ever met any of these legendary musicians, you’re always stunned that they’re just people.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, the art is great, but what makes the work truly transcendent is YOUR investment in it, what it means TO YOU!<\/p>\n

That shit on MTV means nothing to you.<\/p>\n

P2P, YouTube, they’re bringing back the essence of rock and roll, no matter what the music sounds like.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s about challenging convention, having no respect for authority.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean why give a shit what Charlie Walk or the gatekeepers at MTV and radio think ANYWAY?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what fucks up the movie business.\u00c2\u00a0 So many collaborators, so many execs who think they’re the artists, telling the TRUE artists what to do.\u00c2\u00a0 In the seventies, we threw off the chains of this slavery in the music business.\u00c2\u00a0 How the artists became indentured servants again, confounds me.\u00c2\u00a0 But those days are through.<\/p>\n

We saw the Beatles and we bought guitars.<\/p>\n

Kids today are going to see this video, and will fire up GarageBand, and pick up digital video cameras, and create unfiltered stuff from deep inside that will resonate.\u00c2\u00a0 And listeners\/viewers who are affected will spread the word.<\/p>\n

You don’t need the old systems anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re playing along with the boys in suits, you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, you’re laughable.<\/p>\n

It’s a new golden era.<\/p>\n

Is the pot of riches clearly discernible off on the horizon?\u00c2\u00a0 NO!\u00c2\u00a0 But the Beatles didn’t know they were going to become rich and worldly famous when they started out either. <\/p>\n

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