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Last Visited: 11/3/2009
Tags: Alzheimer's, music industry, Music Notation Software, Napster, Peter Jenner, Pink Floyd, pop music, record labels, stimulus package
A call to the halls of Congress: as you bail out the banks and institutions that have been part of the problem, consider dropping a few million to another problem child, the U.S. pop-music industry.
Once considered a stalwart up there with General Motors, the industry that cranked out those terribly terrific top ten tunes since mom and dad hit adolescence has now slipped into Alzheimer's and can't remember how to succeed.
Alas, about the only viability plan they can draw up is to circle the wagons in a siege mentality.
Why? To fight off the Internet. (The only good Internet is a dead Internet.)
On second thought, perhaps Congress should allocate funds elsewhere: the dementia may have progressed too far.
Speaking of how the record industry in America went on the rampage after Napster-esque web sites, Peter Jenner, former manager of Pink Floyd and The Clash, "It always seemed to all of us a really bad idea to sue your customers; to sue your fans.
His assessment on where the industry is on making a shift away from the past?
"We're fairly early on," he says, along with: "but the ambulance is just around the corner."