Dennis Logan’s Mixing Room

OK, here we are trying to get our music heard and maybe make a buck or two. However it seems to me that most music users feel that they are entitled to free music no matter who is making it. It a sense of entitlement that drives me crazy because they don’t understand the truth. If and artist can’t afford to make a great album because they have to give it away. Soon there will not be any great music to hear. Oh sure, you can make it up playing live, right? Wrong, you have just cut off 1/2 of a musician songwriters revenue, and if they aren’t Cold Play or Trent Reznor, your not going to be able to earn enough to make up the difference. In fact you won’t get a chance at all. My current album cost the record company about $600,000.00 to make. I’ll never see a budget like that again even if it sells a million copies. There is no value in music anymore, there’s so much garbage that no one takes the time to listen anymore. I remember when you would by a new album and take it home and rip the plastic off the album cover. Then album covers were works of art,. You had a square foot of wonderful artwork. Then you would slide that big black grooved plastic record and gently place it on your turn table and carefully drop the needle on the edge and sit back with the cover and listen to the whole album. Back then, artists sequenced that album to take you and a trip through sonic nurvana. I remember the first time I listened to Led Zeppelins first album. You know, with the burning Zeppelin on the cover. As soon as I heard the first note I knew I was going places I’d never dreamed of. It change my idea of what music could be. The first time I had anything close to that feeling was when I first heard, Sargent Pepper with headphones. Now days your lucky if a listener listens to more than 20 seconds of one of your songs. They completely have lost the point of great music. I feel sorry for them, they don’t have a clue about what they are missing and that’s why I think it’s important to inform them of what they are missing. One thing that gives me hope is that it never stay static. More people are buying vinyl records. They sound so much better and it is a true life experience to collect and play vinyl records. More and more young people are listening to Zeplin, Beatles, Janis and on and on. I hope we had reached the critical mass of cookie cutter music and people are really seeking great music again. It will take time for the masses to catch up but I think people finally understand that mp3’s sound like shit. Ipod’s don’t come close to playing a vinyl record on a turn table with big loud speakers. It is a holy experience and everyone that has done it, know what I say is true. Cd’s are a mirror image of sound, their are no grooves in CD’s. They are harsh and digital imatations of sound waves. They are false, fake and unworthy because they don’t give you the real sound of the artist. Yes I record on a computer, but from now on all my records will be on vinyl with a cover with glorious artwork and it’s hard to download a vinyl record without turning it into a shitty mirror image. Great music is vital to our growth as human beings. Next time you download someones music without a thought of paying the artist, think what it will be like when all there is to download ismusic you wouldn’t want to download. Is it worth supporting your favorite artist so they can continue to make great music? Is 12 bucks for an albums worth of great music not a fantastic bargin? A movie with popcorn and a drink that might last 2 hours costs over 20 bucks, a great album gives you a lifetime of great memories and emotion. Isn’;t 12 measley bucks worth that? You can always by the single for 99 cents, at least show the artist that their blood, sweat and tears and creativity have value. You’ll feel better, the artist will be able to keep making great music and everyone wins. Is that too much to ask for? I think not. And if you are so poor that you can’t pay for the music, then by all means, steal it. It will have no value to you anyway.