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Live. Music. Eliminate the middleman. Get out and support your local bands.

mywittyname 9y ago
Live Nation is significantly worse for the music industry than Spotify is. Live shows are awesome, but let's not pretend there's no middleman involved. Unless you're seeing a tiny band, going to a live show involves dumping fist fulls of dollars into the pockets of a huge monopoly.
- Kluny 9y ago
  There are thousands of tiny bars, pubs, house parties, outdoor venues, local street parties, and street corners where musicians play live and Live Nation is not involved at all.
  - mywittyname 9y ago
    Sure, but you're not going to see an artist of note at one of these places unless they have some connection to the place.
    - Tsiklon 9y ago
      I think that all depends on what stuff you enjoy listening too. Heavy Metal music as an example, tends to be promoted by smaller scale promoters local to one town or city or area.
radix07 9y ago
What do you listen to in the car??
- sincerely 9y ago
  Cassettes I bought at shows :P
- fuzzfactor 9y ago
  The radio when driving by myself, preferably news to stay up to date or bring in new information rather than having my private listening material isolate me from the outside world. When I commute, there are a number of venues along the way which offer live music 7 nights a week, I have my favorite and a couple preferred backups, with no to low cover charge except for weekends, when I'm not commuting anyway. A mixture of familiar and new musicians usually more than one night a week. I tip the bands who I appreciate and if no one is dancing then I get out there and boogie which brings more people out front and the musicians love it. Also only drink alcohol in this environment, never at home or anywhere else, and always in very limited amounts just to socialize and support the venue, since I want it to wear off before driving afterward. Tip the bartenders too at least 30 percent. I don't make time for this, more like happy hours after working late so I can keep up a 50 to 60 hour week (to accomplish twice as many scientific breakthroughs compared to 40 hours). The alternative would be fewer breakthroughs and almost as many hours in traffic when leaving the lab at 5. I am now acquainted with hundreds of musicians and other music lovers, many of them engineers or amazingly brilliant in many different ways. A while back one of the visiting bass players turned out to be the chairman of the math department for a major university a few hours from here. Turns out I could start a new company as easily as my own band with like-minded exceptional individuals whom I have much deeper insight into than most founders. Yes it is costly, about as much as a few CD's a week, more if I eat at the venues having excellent kitchens. Musicians still often just give me a CD even though I tell them I only listen to it once before passing it on to some one else.
dingaling 9y ago
Unfortunately that involves a time investment of several hours per gig ( stopping work early, getting changed, transport, attending ) versus a click. It is also not generally conducive to multitasking. Yes I listen to stuff whilst washing dishes; it gives me 30 minutes of me-time. Then on with the chores, toddler, dog, bills...
- KozmoNau7 9y ago
  Don't expect the time you need to just appear by itself. Take the time to attend shows.
deleted 9y ago
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Live Nation is significantly worse for the music industry than Spotify is. Live shows are awesome, but let's not pretend there's no middleman involved. Unless you're seeing a tiny band, going to a live show involves dumping fist fulls of dollars into the pockets of a huge monopoly.

Kluny 9y ago
There are thousands of tiny bars, pubs, house parties, outdoor venues, local street parties, and street corners where musicians play live and Live Nation is not involved at all.
- mywittyname 9y ago
  Sure, but you're not going to see an artist of note at one of these places unless they have some connection to the place.
  - Tsiklon 9y ago
    I think that all depends on what stuff you enjoy listening too. Heavy Metal music as an example, tends to be promoted by smaller scale promoters local to one town or city or area.

radix07 9y ago

What do you listen to in the car??

sincerely 9y ago
Cassettes I bought at shows :P
fuzzfactor 9y ago
The radio when driving by myself, preferably news to stay up to date or bring in new information rather than having my private listening material isolate me from the outside world. When I commute, there are a number of venues along the way which offer live music 7 nights a week, I have my favorite and a couple preferred backups, with no to low cover charge except for weekends, when I'm not commuting anyway. A mixture of familiar and new musicians usually more than one night a week. I tip the bands who I appreciate and if no one is dancing then I get out there and boogie which brings more people out front and the musicians love it. Also only drink alcohol in this environment, never at home or anywhere else, and always in very limited amounts just to socialize and support the venue, since I want it to wear off before driving afterward. Tip the bartenders too at least 30 percent. I don't make time for this, more like happy hours after working late so I can keep up a 50 to 60 hour week (to accomplish twice as many scientific breakthroughs compared to 40 hours). The alternative would be fewer breakthroughs and almost as many hours in traffic when leaving the lab at 5. I am now acquainted with hundreds of musicians and other music lovers, many of them engineers or amazingly brilliant in many different ways. A while back one of the visiting bass players turned out to be the chairman of the math department for a major university a few hours from here. Turns out I could start a new company as easily as my own band with like-minded exceptional individuals whom I have much deeper insight into than most founders. Yes it is costly, about as much as a few CD's a week, more if I eat at the venues having excellent kitchens. Musicians still often just give me a CD even though I tell them I only listen to it once before passing it on to some one else.

dingaling 9y ago

Unfortunately that involves a time investment of several hours per gig ( stopping work early, getting changed, transport, attending ) versus a click. It is also not generally conducive to multitasking. Yes I listen to stuff whilst washing dishes; it gives me 30 minutes of me-time. Then on with the chores, toddler, dog, bills...

KozmoNau7 9y ago
Don't expect the time you need to just appear by itself. Take the time to attend shows.

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