RaRaRaR: Advice for the starving artist from the starving promoter
Mar 07
Of Interest digital download, records, vinyl 1 Comment
Admittedly, I’ve been spending less and less time with my vinyl collection, which mostly has to do with the current lack of a record player. However, I’d still love to put my vinyl to good use, and this product from Art Vinyl seems like a great way to do it.
Of course, I’d also need somewhere with a couple blank walls…
Mar 05
Of Interest phil collins, rolling stone No Comments
He pauses, and then he goes on, “I have had suicidal thoughts. I wouldn’t blow my head off. I’d overdose or do something that didn’t hurt. But I wouldn’t do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the Sixties left a note saying, ‘Too many things went wrong too often.’ I often think about that.”
In another post of “Rock’s ugly side” I came across this Rolling Stone article on someone whose name I had not heard in some time, Phil Collins. Love him or hate him, the man was/is a force in music, and apparently he’s also a tough one to beat amongst collectors of memorabilia from the Alamo.
Mar 03
Of Interest black keys, touring No Comments
Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll is not the story for most people in the music industry, and it rarely is the tale told by those who love the musicians that are out chasing the dream and living the “good” life.
As someone involved with the rise of the Black Keys, and the fall of her relationship with its drummer, Patrick Carney, Denise Grollmus details the sad, and yet familiar, tale of a relationship that fell apart quicker than an old band shirt.
It may not help get your band on a stadium tour, but it does bring a more human element to a lifestyle too often written out of fantasy.
Snapshots from a rock ‘n’ roll marriage (salon.com)
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