RE: (TV) Re: TV Digest V1 #4

[Eric Gregory <egregory@standard.com>]

>>record labels (regardless of how much we dislike them) are
>>really not supposed to be charity institutions. 

no doubt about that, but that still doesn't mean we shouldn't do all that we
can to fuck em & fuck em good.

>>Maybe Michael would like to go
>>back to the pre-Beethoven patronage system?

& what would be the difference???
honestly, i'd like to see corporate as well as private funding for the arts
go by the wayside...as over the top as this sounds, it might have the effect
of making art a rebellious agent, something truly underground & "counter"
cultural.

i've said enough already.
i'll leave the MBA issue to cooler (& perhaps saner) minds. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Emilie Hsu [mailto:ehsu@mindspring.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 10:03 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) Re: TV Digest V1 #4




Come on Michael, record labels (regardless of how much we dislike them) are
really not supposed to be charity institutions.  Should Britney Spear start
losing money, they would drop her as well.  Maybe Michael would like to go
back to the pre-Beethoven patronage system?  The blanket statement on all
MBA's is pretty offensive, man, most MBA's I know would probably not regard
working for a record label as their primary aspiration.


>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:55:20 -0500
> From: Michael Olcsvary <olcsvary@erols.com>
> Subject: (TV) Re: Whatever happened to artist development?
>
> You know, as much as I dislike most of his post -"Hot Rats" work, Frank
Zappa
> had it nailed when he said there were two things that had truly messed up
life
> and both of them had three letters.  The second was MBA, since having
those
> three magic letters on your resume gives you automatic validity in the
eyes of
> the suits ( who don't know shit from shinola anyway ) and confers the
ability
> to do what you want even though you don't know what the hell you're doing.
> beats..."

> - --- Michael Olcsvary <olcsvary@erols.com> wrote:
> > And imagine some bean counter hearing the tapes of the next Verlaine
> > effort and saying:  "Gosh, Tom, we like it a lot, but I don't hear a
single.
> > Now we could bring in Britney Spears on this track and overdub some
hip-hop
> > beats..."


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