Fairlight-CMI

I' m sorry but since 10 years the cd sales have dropped asn for 
everybody.
If depeche mode were a new born music group , nobody would buy their 
album. 
They actually sell because of their PAST.

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Puricelli" <rob@...> wrote:
>
> 
> >>The sales of Depeche Mode have dropped the day they left all this 
> >>good stuff, didn' t you noticed ?
> 
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, but that is, as we say in my country (the same country 
that
> Depeche Mode hail from) utter bollox !!
> 
>  
> 
> Check the kit lists for stuff like Violator and you will see 
countless
> pieces of equipment instead of the "good old stuff".
> 
>  
> 
> To claim that an artist/band has success or failure because of the 
equipment
> they use is complete rubbish. Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher and Dave 
Gahan
> could fart a better tune than you or any of us could produce on any 
piece of
> equipment, because they are skilled and successful (both commercial 
&
> critical) songwriters. They could compose their entire next album 
on a
> Bontempi organ and still write better tunes than any of us bedroom 
musos,
> many of whom seem more concerned with technical specifications than 
actual
> song craft.
> 
>  
> 
> £0.02
> 
>  
> 
> Rob.
>