Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

>As for the artists, I've not seen any one of
>them attend the grammy's looking like he stepped out of a
>refrigerator box located on homeless avenue and onto the red carpet.

If I am invited to the grammy's I'll get rid of my washing machine box and 
rent a tuxedo too.

>When I purchase something, it's mine!

I don't have any beef with intellectual property rights, but if you think 
about it, we don't pay royalties every time we tell a joke that someone wrote, or 
follow a recipe that someone came up with. But if we gave all of our music 
away, we could not make a living.


> mabey if the record industry didn't take such an outrageous share of the
> revenue, it wouldn't be such an issue.
> 

A few months ago they asked Prince about his return to releasing commerical 
CD's as opposed to self-releasing stuff on his website,   implying it was a 
failure because it only sold 200,000. He laughed and said he made more money from 
those releases than he did fom the big commercial releases which sold 
millions. Now an artist like Prince is going to get the most favorable terms compared 
to some new unknown act.

Hey, I think one of us can make millions by organizing a new music system 
where we all sell online, and people can browse by genre and so forth, and have 
connections to radio stations which play these - like MusicChoice does on cable 
radio. Of course, the record companies and music stores and Amazons will 
suffer, but more musicians will release music, and more people will hear the music 
they want to hear.


>>> Speaking of, can anybody explain what exactly happened in the 80's?

- The sunset of heavy metal hair bands - Van Halen, Journey, Bon Jovi, etc - 
what started as pretty rebellious in 70's became more mainstream
- someone realized that Disco really wasn't completely dead
- The gradual rise of electronica (Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, Thompson 
Twins, ... a bunch of bands whose songs I remember but I can't remember the 
group names) - a new sound that was rebellious and yet to become mainstream
- 99 luftballoons