Why is the corporate control of music something to care about still in 2008?
Because for the same reasons government and corporate dictated regimes have a hold (still) of Darfur in 2008. Look what that has done to create one of largest human atrocities of modern times.
This is personal, cause it takes very little to care. Music saves peoples lives.Things like presidential elections do not. Yet, look what sops up most of our time each day.
Love and heart and the passion to amp things up...to get people to take notice is what will continue to happen for the forseeable future around the state of music... as this is what happens on most topics that matter and that one way or another impact the quality and abundance in our lives.
Why music? Why is it that important? Because music breaks boundaries and closes divides... it speaks beyond the words and our native language(s) that ultimately constrain us from understanding others. If you magnify upon it even closer --- music is peace... and it can stop forces and be the greatest of white flags to serve as a barricade from aggressors... it along with flowers are not only great signs of beauty, but clearly of peace.
If what I speak in this blog is perceived as attacks on someone...then it is all the other noise going on around them that keeps them in the darkness of taking these things for granted and assuming all will be well... as I have very little to do with the real outcomes... or do we?
Yes, the universe will take care of everything...Darfur, or poverty, or the presidential election... it has already been worked out by the Universe... I agree. So, what do we do? Just not care or pay as little attention as possible?
It amazes me how we can have such blindness to just simply choose to care. Usually, we don't do anything about something that actually matters to us or start paying attention until we start losing it. And, if the things that mattered to us were begun to be taken away... your life, my life, others lives would be drastically different... it is all very simple. And it all starts with being sympathetic to others and caring about what might just be important to them for the sake of doing what is right. I know... we each don't have time for yet another cause.
But, if you lost your hearing... your life would be different... If we lost Radiohead or music or the sound of music... our lives would be different... Those are facts. And it would hurt.
It's been documented many times through words and stories shared that many people who have struggled to survive in life - not only survived but prospered because of music. Yes, saved by music of all kinds and forms... many would go on record as saying "music saved their lives". I would venture to say its more a norm than not.
So, if the ability of all forms and genres and sub-genres and new genres of music are bottle-necked cause of old man-made corporate ways or commercial barricades...and we are limited to the options being Josh Groban or Josh Groban... then I don't want any part in that man-made manufactured reality... nor will I stand for it... nor should anyone else.
But, awareness and choice... is all we have. And the equality in giving artists the ability to self-sustain themselves no matter who they are should be considered as important as what we each take from music.
We love to take... we love to take every last bit until something is nearly all gone... especially in this country...
The rub for me is people's blindness and ability to just take what they are sold via corporate channels of music cause its perceived as a mere entertainment... or profit... and somehow... its okay to make music just a profit driven business... I guess because we have been birthed into believing this by and large... that is all it is... "music as entertainment".
I have news for people... go and test the waters... ask 10 people that you care about... ask them how music has mattered to them... on any level...
Trust me, the aggregate response will be...they couldn't imagine life without it... Now, let me allow you to connect the dots yourselves...
GOOGLE this: "2007 Copyright Royalty Board internet radio"
Look at the first entry or any one of them.
At the heart of this whole matter with Radiohead is the corporate controlling structures they remain in bed with. Namely the largest corporate music litigators - the RIAA (mind you lobbiests, lobby; litigators sue the parents and their kids who took some music off the Internet or otherwise distributed it). So, do not attempt to believe the RIAA are some fair little organization that just politefully talks about their corporate supporters interests... they ultimately sued little kids...
The RIAA is trying to contain control of what will end up being the re-birth of pirate radio most likely in 2008... and what is the point or problem with all that?
As we sit here something we and many young folks have grown up with aka "Internet Radio" is already closing down... all because people do not care or do not keep up with and are not aware of what is happening in the big old "music world"...
Internet Radio has essentially been put on... DEATH ROW... by Radiohead's corporate bedmates! And this after all they have had to deal with during their last corporate slavehood with EMI. Seemingly, Radiohead is ok with continuing to sleep with someone who is fucking everybody else.
Write Tim Westergren at Pandora Radio and ask what our government and the RIAA corporate structures (major and mini major labels) are doing to what is a fair and legitimate business model. A business that criss-crosses boundaries leveraging the true power of the Internet - to deliver music and sound to far off lands without any new infrastructure or new controlling entities. The brilliance of Internet Radio is it hits all the places otherwise would not have the choices we all take for granted in terms of content or access to the content we really want. And, it's being shutdown as I type, it already started last year in many European countries.
So, tell me again how not caring and not considering and not asking questions around the state of music or of even our most celebrated and loved artists like Radiohead is less than appropriate for everyone given music has saved many of our lives?
If it takes a village to move a mountain... Radiohead could of delivered an entire metropolis to the digging site in spades... the sheer magnitude of Radiohead and the opportunity they were presented with... in no longer having the shackles around their ankles from a slave labor contract with EMI and them being on the cusp of launching a much heralded record...
Radiohead could of been the inflection point that caused the corporate towers to crumble, they could of built the entire village or gotten key investors like Branson to build it... they fucking didn't even need to use any of their own capital! Why now? Because the corporate structures are at the weakest point they have ever been at... and it would of been time finally that the corporate structures (labels, distribution, retail lock ups, RIAA) were the ones on an official "death watch".
Instead, directly and indirectly, Radiohead is still assisting the death of Internet Radio and pretty much the opportunity that exists in 2008 for any artist to boldly rise up in a less "controlled by a few" independent global music community...
In training my dog, what works is strong gestures by me to him to get him to learn. Yelling or hitting doesn't work. Shaking Thom Yorke really hard wouldn't work. Shaking and hitting and yelling aren't really successful "gestures" to create the awareness that would allow my dog's growth to take place and get him to learn. My common gesture is to hold my dog by his nose and hold him for 10-15 seconds and convey the feeling of "no" to him. I can't even just say "no" --- he doesn't really understand "no". But, the feeling or energy I give off during the 10-15 second hold - he gets the message.
So, to Thom Yorke and all those that choose to remain unaware and uncaring to the situations facing something that matters to you - may this blog grab you by the nose and allow the feeling to sink in - "no, this is not right". Because if I sat and coddled my dog all day and tried to have a nice little discussion with him he would just continue pissing in the house everywhere.
Because for the same reasons government and corporate dictated regimes have a hold (still) of Darfur in 2008. Look what that has done to create one of largest human atrocities of modern times.
This is personal, cause it takes very little to care. Music saves peoples lives.Things like presidential elections do not. Yet, look what sops up most of our time each day.
Love and heart and the passion to amp things up...to get people to take notice is what will continue to happen for the forseeable future around the state of music... as this is what happens on most topics that matter and that one way or another impact the quality and abundance in our lives.
Why music? Why is it that important? Because music breaks boundaries and closes divides... it speaks beyond the words and our native language(s) that ultimately constrain us from understanding others. If you magnify upon it even closer --- music is peace... and it can stop forces and be the greatest of white flags to serve as a barricade from aggressors... it along with flowers are not only great signs of beauty, but clearly of peace.
If what I speak in this blog is perceived as attacks on someone...then it is all the other noise going on around them that keeps them in the darkness of taking these things for granted and assuming all will be well... as I have very little to do with the real outcomes... or do we?
Yes, the universe will take care of everything...Darfur, or poverty, or the presidential election... it has already been worked out by the Universe... I agree. So, what do we do? Just not care or pay as little attention as possible?
It amazes me how we can have such blindness to just simply choose to care. Usually, we don't do anything about something that actually matters to us or start paying attention until we start losing it. And, if the things that mattered to us were begun to be taken away... your life, my life, others lives would be drastically different... it is all very simple. And it all starts with being sympathetic to others and caring about what might just be important to them for the sake of doing what is right. I know... we each don't have time for yet another cause.
But, if you lost your hearing... your life would be different... If we lost Radiohead or music or the sound of music... our lives would be different... Those are facts. And it would hurt.
It's been documented many times through words and stories shared that many people who have struggled to survive in life - not only survived but prospered because of music. Yes, saved by music of all kinds and forms... many would go on record as saying "music saved their lives". I would venture to say its more a norm than not.
So, if the ability of all forms and genres and sub-genres and new genres of music are bottle-necked cause of old man-made corporate ways or commercial barricades...and we are limited to the options being Josh Groban or Josh Groban... then I don't want any part in that man-made manufactured reality... nor will I stand for it... nor should anyone else.
But, awareness and choice... is all we have. And the equality in giving artists the ability to self-sustain themselves no matter who they are should be considered as important as what we each take from music.
We love to take... we love to take every last bit until something is nearly all gone... especially in this country...
The rub for me is people's blindness and ability to just take what they are sold via corporate channels of music cause its perceived as a mere entertainment... or profit... and somehow... its okay to make music just a profit driven business... I guess because we have been birthed into believing this by and large... that is all it is... "music as entertainment".
I have news for people... go and test the waters... ask 10 people that you care about... ask them how music has mattered to them... on any level...
Trust me, the aggregate response will be...they couldn't imagine life without it... Now, let me allow you to connect the dots yourselves...
GOOGLE this: "2007 Copyright Royalty Board internet radio"
Look at the first entry or any one of them.
At the heart of this whole matter with Radiohead is the corporate controlling structures they remain in bed with. Namely the largest corporate music litigators - the RIAA (mind you lobbiests, lobby; litigators sue the parents and their kids who took some music off the Internet or otherwise distributed it). So, do not attempt to believe the RIAA are some fair little organization that just politefully talks about their corporate supporters interests... they ultimately sued little kids...
The RIAA is trying to contain control of what will end up being the re-birth of pirate radio most likely in 2008... and what is the point or problem with all that?
As we sit here something we and many young folks have grown up with aka "Internet Radio" is already closing down... all because people do not care or do not keep up with and are not aware of what is happening in the big old "music world"...
Internet Radio has essentially been put on... DEATH ROW... by Radiohead's corporate bedmates! And this after all they have had to deal with during their last corporate slavehood with EMI. Seemingly, Radiohead is ok with continuing to sleep with someone who is fucking everybody else.
Write Tim Westergren at Pandora Radio and ask what our government and the RIAA corporate structures (major and mini major labels) are doing to what is a fair and legitimate business model. A business that criss-crosses boundaries leveraging the true power of the Internet - to deliver music and sound to far off lands without any new infrastructure or new controlling entities. The brilliance of Internet Radio is it hits all the places otherwise would not have the choices we all take for granted in terms of content or access to the content we really want. And, it's being shutdown as I type, it already started last year in many European countries.
So, tell me again how not caring and not considering and not asking questions around the state of music or of even our most celebrated and loved artists like Radiohead is less than appropriate for everyone given music has saved many of our lives?
If it takes a village to move a mountain... Radiohead could of delivered an entire metropolis to the digging site in spades... the sheer magnitude of Radiohead and the opportunity they were presented with... in no longer having the shackles around their ankles from a slave labor contract with EMI and them being on the cusp of launching a much heralded record...
Radiohead could of been the inflection point that caused the corporate towers to crumble, they could of built the entire village or gotten key investors like Branson to build it... they fucking didn't even need to use any of their own capital! Why now? Because the corporate structures are at the weakest point they have ever been at... and it would of been time finally that the corporate structures (labels, distribution, retail lock ups, RIAA) were the ones on an official "death watch".
Instead, directly and indirectly, Radiohead is still assisting the death of Internet Radio and pretty much the opportunity that exists in 2008 for any artist to boldly rise up in a less "controlled by a few" independent global music community...
In training my dog, what works is strong gestures by me to him to get him to learn. Yelling or hitting doesn't work. Shaking Thom Yorke really hard wouldn't work. Shaking and hitting and yelling aren't really successful "gestures" to create the awareness that would allow my dog's growth to take place and get him to learn. My common gesture is to hold my dog by his nose and hold him for 10-15 seconds and convey the feeling of "no" to him. I can't even just say "no" --- he doesn't really understand "no". But, the feeling or energy I give off during the 10-15 second hold - he gets the message.
So, to Thom Yorke and all those that choose to remain unaware and uncaring to the situations facing something that matters to you - may this blog grab you by the nose and allow the feeling to sink in - "no, this is not right". Because if I sat and coddled my dog all day and tried to have a nice little discussion with him he would just continue pissing in the house everywhere.
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