A Fascinating Article on Music Piracy...

I wont be cutting and pasting the entire interview, but below are some very choice cuts.

"For the major labels, it's over. It's fucking over. You're going to burn to the fucking ground, and we're all going to dance around the fire. And it's your own fault. Surely, somewhere deep inside, you had to know this day was coming, right? Your very industry is founded on an unfair business model of owning art you didn't create in exchange for the services you provide. It's rigged so that you win every time - even if the artist does well, you do ten times better. It was able to exist because you controlled the distribution, but now that's back in the hands of the people, and you let the ball drop when you could have evolved."

and

"and if I filled my shiny new 160gb iPod up legally, buying each track online at the 99 cents price that the industry has determined, it would cost me about $32,226. How does that make sense? It's the ugly truth the record industry wants to ignore as they struggle to find ways to get people to pay for music in a culture that has already embraced the idea of music being something you collect in large volumes, and trade freely with your friends."

You might not agree with everything thats said, but you can't deny that the industry hasn't responded to the changes and potential the new medium has to offer. But I do recommend you read some of the comments on the bottom, they are as insightful as the main article as well.

Edit 2014 - it would have helped if I had put a link to the article as I referenced it in a subsequent post.

Monsters of Rock Tshirt Sacrifice

Not a lot really to say today. Im in mourning as my wife turned one of my monster of rock tshirts into a rag to mop up a spillage one breakfast morning, them promptly cut it into smaller rags for cleaning.

Consequently we are not talking.

1992 Monsters of Rock, Donnington, Iron Maiden headlined with Skid Row, Slayer, W.A.S.P. amongst others were there.

RIP.

Who Am I seeing on the Otherside?

This "See you on the Otherside" is my forum tagline wherever I usually post as Lawbag, I often ponder what the hell I mean by it. Is it some deep meaning, some acknowledgement of the afterlife or another world?

No, it just happens to be a lyric from my favourite Ozzy Osbourne song. Oddly enough for such a depressing lyric, it is a love song!

I have reproduced them below. They have meaning to me, and are almost poetry and unrecognisable outside of it's metal roots. As an example I once sent a girl the lyrics from Metallica's The Unforgiven, and it moved her to tears.

So, here is John "Ozzy" Osbourne's See You on the Other Side from 1995's Ozzmosis

Voices, a thousand, thousand voices
Whispering, the time has passed for choices
Golden days are passing over, yeah

I can’t seem to see you baby
Although my eyes are open wide
But I know I’ll see you once more
When I see you, I’ll see you on the other side
Yes, I’ll see you, I’ll see you on the other side

Leaving, I hate to see you cry
Grieving, I hate to say goodbye
Dust and ash forever, yeah

Though I know we must be parted
As sure as stars are in the sky
I’m gonna see when it comes to glory
And I’ll see you, I’ll see you on the other side
Yes I’ll see you, I’ll see you on the other side

Never thought I’d feel like this
Strange to be alone, yeah
But we’ll be together
Carved in stone, carved in stone, carved in stone

Hold me, hold me tight, I’m falling
Far away. distant voices calling
I’m so cold. I need you darling, yeah

I was down, but now I’m flying
Straight across the great divide
I know you’re crying, but I’ll stop you crying
When I see you, I see you on the other side
Yes. I’ll see you. see you on the othe side
I’m gonna see you. see you on the other side
God knows I’ll see you, see you on the other side, yeah

I’ll see you. see you on the othe side
I’m gonna see you. see you on the other side
God knows I’ll see you, see you on the other side, yeah
I wanna see you, yeah, yeah, yeah, see you on the other side
God knows I’ll see you, see you on the other side, yeah
I’m gonna see you. see you on the other side