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“Either all the record companies will get together or the industry will fall apart… the future technology companies will either wait for the record companies to smarten up, or they’ll let them sink until they can buy them for 10 cents on the dollar and
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“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.
Excellent.
- "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."— Charles Kingsley
Rubin is the epitome of the 1990′s style of sickening Hollywood ambition. Although some of the spiritual songs and old “family” music Cash did with Rubin are great (due to the fact that Cash was, well, Cash), things like the NIN song strike me as exploiting something cliched and too vulnerable about an old hipster. Thank goodness he’s left his mitts off George Jones.
And if he thinks subscription is going to save the music biz, he’s nuts. I think Rubin is yesterday’s news. The Columbia job is proof of that. I laughed out loud about the CAA building stuff. Like hot new interesting artists are going to spring from THAT corner in Bev Hills.
I think you’re probably right about the subscription model, and I think Rubin’s right about one or other of the tech giants buying up the music industry at 10 cents on the dollar. The last Neil Diamond album, which I thought was very good, is too recent for me to consider Rubin old news as a producer. Let’s hear the new one.
As for the change of buildings, the detail isn’t as interesting to me as the fact that Columbia has reached such a state of desperation that they’re ready to entertain root-and-branch upheavals in their business. I doubt that it will help a whole lot; I suspect that the music industry as we have known it is just doomed. There is no good reason for huge record companies to exist anymore. Successive waves of adversity will carry them off, one by one…