Your musical morals - Do you have any?

[Spitfire]

Now they are just gone. Everyone can look back and say Yeah you guys were so good... But it's kinda like.... ahh all that work down the drain.

Like the end of Spirit Caravan, unfortunately, it seems to come down making a choice whether you want to make money or art. Independent artists make no money, they can't quit their day job, their art won't support them alone. But they still have their music integrity, which to me is the most important thing. They're doing it all for the love of the music, and if they can make money at it then more power to them. Make whatever music makes you happy. If I like it, I'll listen to it.

hell, I'm traveling all the way to Ohio on Memorial Day weekend to a bar to just to check out bands play for 3 days, and there will be a full audience. (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.emissionsfromthemonolith">http://www.emissionsfromthemonolith</a><!-- m --> )

I enjoy Indy musicians because they don't care what the average consumer will buy. Most people, if they don't hear it on the radio or tv, it doesn't exist. That's sad that they have to be force-fed their entertainment. The music industry just plain old sucks, all they look for are trends, which leads to generic copies of music that was originally pure. Look how they watered down Grunge became so quickly when labels signed bands who could sing like Eddie Veder. Granted, I still love bands like STP, Train, Days of the New, Alic in Chains, etc. but the numbers of good, quality original bands being released by major labels seems to be shrinking IMO.


i don't think I had a point to this entire post... oh well :lol: