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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: Watched PBS's FRONTLINE Thursday night at 9:00 PM (SPOILERS) |
| Date | Thu, 27 May 2004 23:01:46 -0400 |
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Ok:
So let's review:
1. MTV bad.
2. Millionaire record execs aren't making enough money.
3. Has-beens with track records trump unknowns (even ones with famous
relatives) every time.
4. Those damn kids and their downloading are ruining everything.
Was there something we DIDN'T already know here? That's an hour of my
life I'm never getting back.
john
http://www.milkshakejones.com
On May 27, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Will Harris wrote:
> Just got finished watching the show. Man, how depressing. Velvet
> Revolver
> ultimately becomes successful not really because their music is any
> good
> but, rather, because they're easy to promote as "Guns 'N' Roses with
> the guy
> from Stone Temple Pilots singing." Duff and Matt came across as
> complete
> fuckwits (I particularly enjoyed Matt's reference to the number of
> "explanatives" on their album), whereas Sarah Hudson struck me as an
> intelligent young girl...and yet she's going nowhere with her single
> (which
> I quite liked) while Velvet Revolver is selling out everywhere they
> go...which they could do without ever having played a single note,
> simply by
> coasting on the achievements of their previous bands. I wish they
> would've
> spent more time with Nic Harcourt, so he could promote more up and
> coming
> artists; it seemed like everytime they showed him on the air, they cut
> away
> just before he finished saying who he'd just gotten finished playing...
>
> Latah,
>
> WILL
>
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