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[Jx2]

GOOD!!!!

I hate the whole download process. I know its the modern age and will be here for a long long time to come. I wont say its the last way we'll ever get money, because honestly you just never know what tomarrow will bring.

Personally call me old fashion, but I wont download I wont even pay for a download even if thats the only way to get a song. I like having the entire package, the music, the artwork, the notes, and lyrics or whatever else they toss in. I really liked how the black crowes packaged up the croweology album. I wont convert to downloading untill I can not find music on cd or vinyl.

Personaly I feel record sales will continue to fall, regardless of what formats are available. For one, to me todays music in general doesnt give that same vibe that it did years ago. Things have gotten to easy. For those of us who rembers music before cd's. Will recall a time when you ran out and bought the new.....GnR....album you basically had to listen to it all to get to the songs on the radio. I mean you could fast forward, or find the spot on vinly to skip a spot. But it really was a pain especially if you really bought it for only that one song. By having to sit down and listen to the entire album you almost always found songs that never made it to radio or video(when they had good music tv and not reality tv tv). And by doing so I beleive that you would finds bands you fell in love with and you'd also find bands that was ok or worse. With those days gone, especially kids today are not forced by with the nature of the world will never imo discover bands like they did 20 or so years ago. I also beleive this is one reason that it seems Metal has so many diehard fans. In general, Metal doesnt receive alot of air time. So fans of those bands have to research them for themself. Which created a tighter bond between fan and band. I think the influence of metal is seen mostly by the new guitars built today. Take a company like Schecter, most of the guitars you see of theirs have EMG 81/85 and Duncan Blackouts. I cant say for sure but Ive heard the Custom Custom in most bridge spot with the 59 in the neck is also leaned towards metal a little. Im not saying active pick ups are metal or bust, but I know several people who like them for metal but would prefer a more passive pup for most anything else, and I tend to agree.

Bottom line imo....The Music Industry will not regain its once infamous status untill the bands find a better more effiecent way to get non-commerical tracks from their albums into the peoples ears. Plus so much has been done its hard to be orginal for upcoming bands. I often wonder if a band like Velvet Revolver, Chicken Foot or Hell Yea...heck even Heaven and Hell before Dio's passing would of ever of had a album if it wasnt for the success already acheived by the members of these bands. I'll even venture we probably have a handfull of guys in here that are in bands worthy of a major record label and even more bands that we all know in our little necks of the woods. That will never get out of the bars and the bands highlight might only be opening up for a signed band at some of the bigger bars.

Ok my rant is done.

[Ch0jin]

Jx2 One thing to add to your comments about records and having to listen to the whole thing to get to the radio friendly track.

Shuffle

Back in the record days, as you so correctly say, you tended to just bang the record on and listen to a sequence of tracks in the order the artist intended. Now with CD/MP3 it's all about the shuffle. Heck I LOVE iTunes genius for banging together songs that go well together, but imagine if thats how you heard Dark Side of the Moon the first time? All shuffled up in random order? Epic Fail.