27 Jul
2012
27 Jul
'12
12:17 a.m.
On Thu, July 26, 2012 11:55 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
Embace, extend, extinguish...
Did it to Moog, Fender, countless other small but successful music
businesses have been absorbed and spat out the other side.
Audioflinger is balanced on the edge. They need to decide if they want to
enable or disable.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
wrote:
The problem is that we have a select group/monopoly attempting to tell
us
what the rules are and forcing them on us at every opportunity. A
curious
side process is this same group often break their own rules to maintain
their monopoly over telling us what the rules are.
i'm not discussing politics or sociology (certainly not on this ML). in
the
musical/cultural realm, this claim is really hard to justify. what did it
take the minimalists or the punks or even the prog rockers to reject
twelve
tone atonal serialism, prog rock and 3 chord C-major common time party
music? almost nothing except a committment to their own visions and a lot
of hard work. and even wierder? the establishment barely even fought back.
and this is even more true when its no longer necessary to convince a
record label or TV network or radio station manager that you're the
shiznit.