At Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:16:55 Brian Keane wrote:

>Perhaps.  It's a major part of my experience, that's for sure.
>Perhaps our kids will have a different experience - and that may not
>be a bad thing.  My only point is that in a world with only downloaded
>purchases, kids won't have many experiences buying music.
>
>Maybe in a couple of years you will bring your iPod to the mall or
>supermarket, slide a couple of bucks into a vending machine, connect
>your iPod and get a song or two, along with some art and lyrics.  And
>kids may love it as much as we love the tactile thing.

I'm amazed at my own father's forward thinking in electronics and music. 
He's 61 and was a huge music supporter at the dawn of rock and roll. He 
turned his back on Sinatra and embraced Elvis, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee 
Lewis. He bought 7" singles every week when the new Hit Parade was posted by 
CHUM in local record shops. He DJ'd at student dances and community 
gatherings. He was the life of the party and eventually moved from buying 
stereo equipment to building his own -- at age 19 he had developed a 100 
Watt system that he used to scare Trick Or Treaters at Halloween.

He hated the Stones, loved the Beatles AFTER Sgt. Pepper, thought So Cal 
harmonies were the cat's ass and built a solid record collection of same 
that I hope to inherit one day.

Through his forte in the electronics business he was at the cutting edge of 
the microchip and has continued building stereo systems for himself and my 
family. He's the only guy I know at his age that plays new music full-blast 
in my parent's home just to see how the frequency response on new CDs is.

His most astute observation when the CD was introduced at the consumer level 
was that people were wasting their time clinging to physical formats at all 
when so much music could be stored on the head of a pin in the form of a 
microchip -- he tried but failed to figure out a way of digitally converting 
to a large microprocessor. This was in 1987. It's now 2003 and we are here 
debating the collapse of the music industry due to this very technology.

Wonder if Dad has any other "visions" he'd like to share about music 
technology :-)

Jaimie Vernon,
President,
Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!"

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