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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5890590" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>Interesting article. I don't disagree with it, but there are other factors to consider as well.</p><p></p><p>For instance, playing live pays at best $100 a man for your average cover band. Originals bands don't get paid, they usually have to pay to play or to the multi-band-whirligig to play a set. </p><p></p><p>This pricing is the same now as in the 80's, except a touring cover band could actually get booked for a week at time at venues, and now, at best they can get one night. Which means to tour, it is much more difficult to get a string of rooms booked to keep you working as your tour.</p><p></p><p>The barrier to entry for recording has gone down. Yes, going to a pro studio still costs about the same, despite advances in technology. But folks can buy a Mac that ships with GarageBand for free, and some mics and DIY in their house. Youtube is chockfull of examples of talent recorded on a web-cam mic. And classic records from the 50's or before were recorded with classic sound that today would be identified as bad mics if we saw it in a youtube video. Basically, our ears will accept what sounds good, hearing past poor recording quality, sometimes equating that poor quality to part of the charm.</p><p></p><p>the last link in the chain is the volume of artists has increased. While it is true everybody has wanted to get discovered and become a famous rock star, the number of people able to try was naturally smaller by virtue of total population headcount, people who could afford instruments and people who could time on stage. Now, instruments are cheaper, recording is cheaper (DIY is free as in beer) and every body with an instrument has an album (I do, wanna hear it?).</p><p></p><p>What this gets to is the market is flooded. Bars don't pay more for bands, and they don't promote the bands they book. They expect the bands to bring the crowd (which how do you do that when its your first gig)? Top that off with how many bands are willing to play for free because they are dad-bands who used to play, or crappy bands looking for the last venue to let them on. things changed in bars and clubs where they used to screen their talent such that people went to the club to SEE who the club chose to put on. Now, clubs expect the band to bring the crowd to them, and they expect to pay less than they ever did before.</p><p></p><p>This basically kills the support network for beginning bands. Which is where record labels would have discovered them. This is why talent scouts would go to The Whiskey in LA to spot talent like Guns-n-Roses. Now, the Whiskey is largely a pay-to-play room.</p><p></p><p>Right up there with actual live performances being flooded out, is recorded product. Like the article said, there were like 75,000 new albums and 60,000 of them sold less than 100. Everybody and their dog can put out an album (mine is not on iTunes, it has dog hair on it). As such, people would have to wade through to find artists they are interested in.</p><p></p><p>What you basically get is songs on the radio get bought, meme songs that somebody spread around get picked up, songs that made it tv shows. Anti-mainstream listeners (people who always do the opposite of what's popular) will still surf the web and find odd picks, and that's where your indie band's 3 fans come from. becuase they randomly found your band instead of my band's page of eclectic songs that don't sound mainstreamy.</p><p></p><p>That is basically, more of what's wrong with the industry. As learned by me when I researched this stuff and recorded my own album with the help of my dog who sang, played drums and produced it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 5890590, member: 8835"] Interesting article. I don't disagree with it, but there are other factors to consider as well. For instance, playing live pays at best $100 a man for your average cover band. Originals bands don't get paid, they usually have to pay to play or to the multi-band-whirligig to play a set. This pricing is the same now as in the 80's, except a touring cover band could actually get booked for a week at time at venues, and now, at best they can get one night. Which means to tour, it is much more difficult to get a string of rooms booked to keep you working as your tour. The barrier to entry for recording has gone down. Yes, going to a pro studio still costs about the same, despite advances in technology. But folks can buy a Mac that ships with GarageBand for free, and some mics and DIY in their house. Youtube is chockfull of examples of talent recorded on a web-cam mic. And classic records from the 50's or before were recorded with classic sound that today would be identified as bad mics if we saw it in a youtube video. Basically, our ears will accept what sounds good, hearing past poor recording quality, sometimes equating that poor quality to part of the charm. the last link in the chain is the volume of artists has increased. While it is true everybody has wanted to get discovered and become a famous rock star, the number of people able to try was naturally smaller by virtue of total population headcount, people who could afford instruments and people who could time on stage. Now, instruments are cheaper, recording is cheaper (DIY is free as in beer) and every body with an instrument has an album (I do, wanna hear it?). What this gets to is the market is flooded. Bars don't pay more for bands, and they don't promote the bands they book. They expect the bands to bring the crowd (which how do you do that when its your first gig)? Top that off with how many bands are willing to play for free because they are dad-bands who used to play, or crappy bands looking for the last venue to let them on. things changed in bars and clubs where they used to screen their talent such that people went to the club to SEE who the club chose to put on. Now, clubs expect the band to bring the crowd to them, and they expect to pay less than they ever did before. This basically kills the support network for beginning bands. Which is where record labels would have discovered them. This is why talent scouts would go to The Whiskey in LA to spot talent like Guns-n-Roses. Now, the Whiskey is largely a pay-to-play room. Right up there with actual live performances being flooded out, is recorded product. Like the article said, there were like 75,000 new albums and 60,000 of them sold less than 100. Everybody and their dog can put out an album (mine is not on iTunes, it has dog hair on it). As such, people would have to wade through to find artists they are interested in. What you basically get is songs on the radio get bought, meme songs that somebody spread around get picked up, songs that made it tv shows. Anti-mainstream listeners (people who always do the opposite of what's popular) will still surf the web and find odd picks, and that's where your indie band's 3 fans come from. becuase they randomly found your band instead of my band's page of eclectic songs that don't sound mainstreamy. That is basically, more of what's wrong with the industry. As learned by me when I researched this stuff and recorded my own album with the help of my dog who sang, played drums and produced it. [/QUOTE]
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