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While this guy is a festering piece of shit who makes Ringo Starr look like a good drummer (jk Ringo sucks)…this move was the last ditch effort to keep music good. What file sharing did was shift the entire industry from supply side to demand side.
And the demand side SUUUUCKS
In May 2000, Metallica's Lars Ulrich delivered 13 boxes to Napster's office. Inside were the screen names of 335,435 users who had shared the band's songs for free.
Napster agreed to block them. To many, it looked like Metallica against its own fans.
In the video below, Ulrich explains why he did it. "Napster hijacked our music without asking."
It started with a leak. Unfinished versions of "I Disappear," a song for Mission: Impossible 2, were already playing on US radio. The band traced them to Napster.
On April 13, 2000, Metallica sued. In 48 hours, Ulrich said, over 300,000 users made 1.4 million free downloads of its music.
Napster said it stored no songs and only connected users. Fans called it sharing.
Ulrich rejected the word. "If I share a sandwich with you, I'm left with half a sandwich."
That September, Napster's founder, Shawn Fanning, walked onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards in a Metallica T-shirt. He said he had borrowed it from a friend.
Metallica and Napster settled in July 2001. That same month, Napster's free service went dark.
In 2003, Apple opened the iTunes Store at 99 cents a song.
Thirteen years later, Ulrich put it this way: "It's not about money. It's about control." He knows how he will be remembered: "It'll be in the first five sentences of my obituary."
So was Metallica protecting its music, or turning on its own fans?
He’s totally right. This is absolutely fucking terrible. This is the kinda shit the 4 people at an open mic night wouldn’t clap for.
MTV wanted Nirvana to do an encore after this song was over, but Cobain refused, saying that he sucked and that the whole band sounded terrible. He'd thought the performance was a bomb because the audience was so quiet, not realizing that it was so quiet because they were blown away
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night
(Unplugged 1993) ▶️
He’s kinda right but the way he lays it out still makes him come off like an half baked asshole.
I prefer my assholes to be fully baked.
IMO improvising is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more fun than having a pencil in my hand instead of a guitar.
also...i cant write a classical piece better than bach or villa lobos so why even try when i can play their music to my heart's content?
i agree with the brevity sentiment but...
COUNTERPOINT: folk and country music is simple, formulaic and repetitive.
if time is your benchmark for being a good songwriter, consider expanding your horizons.
Yes. Amateur guitars and messy vox are incredibly disrespectful to an audience. This is why I don’t like indie rock.
Public performance should be professionally executed. It’s not that hard to practice.
not stanning either artist, but the negative reactions to these clips are way over the top…
a lot of y’all would have walked out on moldy peaches, belle & sebastian, dino jr., simon joyner, or even daniel johnston if you’re this triggered by messy guitars and amateur vox.
do you even like indie rock?
Cole Porter not being mentioned as one of the most popular 20th century composers is a big enough omission to dismiss this take entirely.
I thank god every day I wasn’t born in the YouTube era of guitar instruction.
You cannot learn music off the internet. You can’t even learn off zoom unless you have good technique and grasp of theory already. All these guys are selling snake oil and the currency is your time.
Any local classical and almost any jazz (not by weird modern people) in a decent sized city will be professional and feature high level musicianship. There will be plenty of available seats.
The problem in America is the market. The demand side is impossibly broken.
God I love Eddie Van Halen. And I love him mogging that fuckin dork Billy Corgan for not knowing his shit.
it's fucking ridiculous how much more difficult this is to read than sheet music. why would anyone use tabs?
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The other day at the airport, I witnessed a scene I will never forget.
The man's name was Daniel. He was holding his dog, Bruno, in his arms, tears welling up in his eyes.
He was moving overseas, but Bruno could not be put in the cargo hold for health reasons
Daniel pleaded with the staff, I absolutely cannot leave him behind.
The crew then made space for him inside the plane.
Bruno didn't bark or make a fuss even once; he just sat there quietly. He
seemed to know he was safe, and everyone around him was touched by his composure.
When the plane landed, Daniel whispered softly,
We made it together, Bruno.
Even now, my heart warms whenever I remember that moment
BEST COMPOSERS IN HISTORY...
no bach
no beethoven
no mozart
no chopin
no tchaikovsky
no brahms
no rachmaninoff
no shostakovich
no prokofiev
you sir, are a pepperoni
MEJORES COMPOSITORES DE LA HISTORIA
1. Bob Dylan es dios, incluso en sus momentos bajos está muy por encima de la mayoría de compositores de esta lista.
2. Jagger/Richards son muy superiores a Lennon/MacCartney, por mucho que el marketing diga lo contrario.
3. Qué decir de Kanye que no se haya dicho antes, insuperable.
4. Cobain estaría mucho más alto si no nos hubiera dejado tan pronto.
5. Patti Smith es la mejor compositora mujer de la historia.
6. Bowie no es el típico compositor que se saca genialidades de la manga, tuvo que trabajar duro y aprender mucho, y esa trayectoria fue lo que lo hizo grande.
7. Si a Brian Wilson no le hubiera pasado lo que le pasó (similar al caso Kanye), le estaría disputando ahora mismo la cima a Dylan.
8. La composición no se valora solo por letras, sino también y mucho más por música.
