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| voodoopug |
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Steel Wheels wrote:
The rich have always had their court jesters and entertainers.
If the rich want to hire the Stones, so be it. Hire Dylan. B.B. Even Bon Jovi.
Who hires a musician doesn't matter.
Does the musician deliver the goods? Is the guitar in tune? Does the lead singer get the words right? That's what matters.
Musicians are the one sector of artists that have this bullshit code of ethics about what they charge and who they play for applied to them.
If a painter gets paid to paint some asshole's wife for a million bucks, it's art. You NEVER hear about a painter "selling out" to the man. "Oh, she just paints for the rich now. What a sell out. She used to sell painting for 10 bucks. Now she sells the same paintings she's always made for a million dollars a canvas."
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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FotiniD wrote:
I don't want to sound cheeky or pretend to be cleverer, but I think that age of rock 'n' roll was finished long ago 
There is good rock music today, and there are great live bands, but rock 'n' roll as an era and as we define it, well, I think it's been dead far too long.
That said, of course the Stones are important. Just imagine how much more important - and still relevant - they would be, had they cared more about their own legacy.
I'm kind of thinking in the long term. The "Middle Ages" lasted a thousand years or so....at least after the historians got to define it. It's all arbritary anyway. I think the living memory of human beings help to define an "age"....
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| oldkr |
you are confusing keith richards with his media image.
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| FotiniD |
quote:
Steel Wheels wrote:
The rich have always had their court jesters and entertainers.
If the rich want to hire the Stones, so be it. Hire Dylan. B.B. Even Bon Jovi.
Who hires a musician doesn't matter.
Does the musician deliver the goods? Is the guitar in tune? Does the lead singer get the words right? That's what matters.
Musicians are the one sector of artists that have this bullshit code of ethics about what they charge and who they play for applied to them.
If a painter gets paid to paint some asshole's wife for a million bucks, it's art. You NEVER hear about a painter "selling out" to the man. "Oh, she just paints for the rich now. What a sell out. She used to sell painting for 10 bucks. Now she sells the same paintings she's always made for a million dollars a canvas."
Well, to start with, jesters never had much of a choice, did they?
I agree that what you say about painters holds true to a certain degree, but if that said painter's art had deteriorated in comparison to his / her previous works, and "inspiration" about painting was greater according to the monetary scale, well... we would be talking about a sell-out either way. |
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| Soldatti |
5.4 million for the gig... |
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| Joey |
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Soldatti wrote:
5.4 million for the gig...
that's right !!!!!
Every single one of ya's ...........
BEER ME !!!!!!
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| Gazza |
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oldkr wrote:
you are confusing keith richards with his media image.
OLDKR
If he can do it, so can everyone else...... |
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| mojoman |
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Soldatti wrote:
5.4 million for the gig...
euro's? sterling? |
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