I do apologize for the broad brush I painted. Like you having an issue with "college-educated failed musicians", I have an issue with the "punk rock I play the guitar" group. My point still remains. Many people would gladly pay for sheet music, were it made reasonably available.
I too apoligize. I'm usually quite respondant to humour / sarcasm, but alas, I missed the ball. But saying that kind of stuff is scary. If I took you seriously, just imagine if a rep from the RIAA reads this and consideres implementing it. Who knows what would happen?
You Could Have it So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand, Dial-A-Song (the compilation CD) by They Might be Giants come directly to mind. I believe that Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth had a few minor errors as well.
So you're suggesting that they fix the problem of regulation by more regulation? I'm sorry, but this strikes me as a hideous idea. Part of the reason why music has been around for 500+ years has been due to originality. If you start regulating what musicians can and cannot do with their music, you've effectively halted music in its tracks (at least until the Musical Revolution comes around). I was under the impression that the RIAA does all this under the guise of protecting the intellectual property / rights of the musician. Of course, this is, by no stretch of the imagination, a severe obfucsation of the truth, but this would be beyond hypocritical. To even consider forcing a musician to do this or do that is what composers and musicians fear most. To lose control of their music would be akin to a sysAdmin losing control of his server.
It's true. Proper musicians (read: who actually know how to read sheet music, not just tablature) will gladly pay for the original (read: not some crappy re-arrangement) copy of the sheet music, if only because it's that much more fun to be able to play the music, and know the hard work that goes into it. I would readily fork out some cash for the trumpet line from some of CAKE's music, or the whole score from other music. Tis a shame this will never happen, as I could (gasp!) record my own version to listen to. It's crap like this that makes me glad I don't like music past the year 2000, with a few notable exceptions. Sorry TMBG, Franz Ferdinand, and all you actually decent bands, I guess I won't bother to spend my hard earned cash on your good music, because that'd be funding idiocy that I can't stand.
But overall, my personal favourite, was this quote from the article:
"We anticipate that you'll see different kinds of offers in the market, where lyrics are combined with recorded music in a total package like a subscription. This extra element should help drive sales growth. There are a lot of ways the services will derive value outside of adding an extra charge," he said.
Never mind that including the lyrics has been done for the past, what, 40 years of recorded music? It's the fact that you geniuses stopped including the lyrics with the music that people had to go to the internet (oh noes, the intarweb) to find out what people thought the lyrics were. And please, if you are going to include the lyrics, make sure they're accurate. I mean, for chrissakes, you have the damn music to listen to and the band to double check it with. If I had a nickle for every time I read the lyrics included with the CD that were inaccurate, I could probably survive being sued by the RIAA. Get off your damn high horse and go back to recording music.
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I do apologize for the broad brush I painted. Like you having an issue with "college-educated failed musicians", I have an issue with the "punk rock I play the guitar" group. My point still remains. Many people would gladly pay for sheet music, were it made reasonably available.
I too apoligize. I'm usually quite respondant to humour / sarcasm, but alas, I missed the ball. But saying that kind of stuff is scary. If I took you seriously, just imagine if a rep from the RIAA reads this and consideres implementing it. Who knows what would happen?
You Could Have it So Much Better by Franz Ferdinand, Dial-A-Song (the compilation CD) by They Might be Giants come directly to mind. I believe that Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth had a few minor errors as well.
So you're suggesting that they fix the problem of regulation by more regulation? I'm sorry, but this strikes me as a hideous idea. Part of the reason why music has been around for 500+ years has been due to originality. If you start regulating what musicians can and cannot do with their music, you've effectively halted music in its tracks (at least until the Musical Revolution comes around). I was under the impression that the RIAA does all this under the guise of protecting the intellectual property / rights of the musician. Of course, this is, by no stretch of the imagination, a severe obfucsation of the truth, but this would be beyond hypocritical. To even consider forcing a musician to do this or do that is what composers and musicians fear most. To lose control of their music would be akin to a sysAdmin losing control of his server.
It's true. Proper musicians (read: who actually know how to read sheet music, not just tablature) will gladly pay for the original (read: not some crappy re-arrangement) copy of the sheet music, if only because it's that much more fun to be able to play the music, and know the hard work that goes into it. I would readily fork out some cash for the trumpet line from some of CAKE's music, or the whole score from other music. Tis a shame this will never happen, as I could (gasp!) record my own version to listen to. It's crap like this that makes me glad I don't like music past the year 2000, with a few notable exceptions. Sorry TMBG, Franz Ferdinand, and all you actually decent bands, I guess I won't bother to spend my hard earned cash on your good music, because that'd be funding idiocy that I can't stand.
But overall, my personal favourite, was this quote from the article:
"We anticipate that you'll see different kinds of offers in the market, where lyrics are combined with recorded music in a total package like a subscription. This extra element should help drive sales growth. There are a lot of ways the services will derive value outside of adding an extra charge," he said.
Never mind that including the lyrics has been done for the past, what, 40 years of recorded music? It's the fact that you geniuses stopped including the lyrics with the music that people had to go to the internet (oh noes, the intarweb) to find out what people thought the lyrics were. And please, if you are going to include the lyrics, make sure they're accurate. I mean, for chrissakes, you have the damn music to listen to and the band to double check it with. If I had a nickle for every time I read the lyrics included with the CD that were inaccurate, I could probably survive being sued by the RIAA. Get off your damn high horse and go back to recording music.
Interesting point, but you made a slight mistake. The number will be 1-900-LYR-IC4U. Like they're gonna give us lyrics at a cost to them.