Comments on: On Rick Rubin and the future of the music business http://www.nikhilpahwa.com/2007/09/05/on-rick-rubin-and-the-future-of-the-music-business/ In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:19:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: sunfever http://www.nikhilpahwa.com/2007/09/05/on-rick-rubin-and-the-future-of-the-music-business/#comment-940 sunfever Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:39:44 +0000 http://www.mixedbag.in/2007/09/05/on-rick-rubin-and-the-future-of-the-music-business/#comment-940 The music industry going down the tube is but to be expected. They forgot the "natural" order of things. In the old days when music was becoming the killer biz it is/was, the record labels were a vehicle to deliver the music to the public. The music was larger than the biz. It was the reason why the labels existed in the first place. Then some suited fuck thought "why wait for the chicken to lay the gold egg? lets rip open the stomach and get all the eggs." And ever since then we've been goin down. Does anyone remember any Spice girl song? Inspiration and innovation cannot be canned. The manufactured freedom of MTV will not deliver original voices ripping open the guts of civilization to spill the beans on the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful. The music industry going down the tube is but to be expected. They forgot the “natural” order of things. In the old days when music was becoming the killer biz it is/was, the record labels were a vehicle to deliver the music to the public. The music was larger than the biz. It was the reason why the labels existed in the first place. Then some suited fuck thought “why wait for the chicken to lay the gold egg? lets rip open the stomach and get all the eggs.”

And ever since then we’ve been goin down. Does anyone remember any Spice girl song? Inspiration and innovation cannot be canned. The manufactured freedom of MTV will not deliver original voices ripping open the guts of civilization to spill the beans on the good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful.

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