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Post by RickW on Dec 5, 2021 12:23:38 GMT -5
Josh and his buddy Carson McKee are The Other Favourites. A few of us here have followed Josh’s journey for years, posting his work in the cafe. He’s an excellent musician, in both fingerstyle and flatpicked acoustic and electric guitar, or any other stringed instrument, and does a decent job with percussion as well. Great singer, both lead and harmony, and he has developed top notch recording skills. Becoming a very fine songwriter as well. They just put out a new album, Unamericana, and I’ve listened a few times. It’s truly fine acoustic music. Here’s the playlist on YouTube. Hard work and persistence, hope it’s paying off for him. Unamericana |
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Post by david on Dec 5, 2021 12:31:12 GMT -5
I am loving (and trying to learn) Josh's rendition of this one:
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Post by millring on Dec 5, 2021 17:33:39 GMT -5
I almost posted this the other day, but I figured you'd all already seen it.
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Post by coachdoc on Dec 5, 2021 18:04:54 GMT -5
Superb execution but, the song writing is ok but not great.
The standard Blue World is tip top.
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Post by Marshall on Dec 7, 2021 16:16:38 GMT -5
Josh and his buddy Carson McKee are The Other Favourites. A few of us here have followed Josh’s journey for years, posting his work in the cafe. He’s an excellent musician, in both fingerstyle and flatpicked acoustic and electric guitar, or any other stringed instrument, and does a decent job with percussion as well. Great singer, both lead and harmony, and he has developed top notch recording skills. Becoming a very fine songwriter as well. They just put out a new album, Unamericana, and I’ve listened a few times. It’s truly fine acoustic music. Here’s the playlist on YouTube. Hard work and persistence, hope it’s paying off for him. Unamericana That's $8.00 per 10,000 views. You'll never get rich by digging a ditch. |
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Post by RickW on Dec 7, 2021 16:30:58 GMT -5
Josh and his buddy Carson McKee are The Other Favourites. A few of us here have followed Josh’s journey for years, posting his work in the cafe. He’s an excellent musician, in both fingerstyle and flatpicked acoustic and electric guitar, or any other stringed instrument, and does a decent job with percussion as well. Great singer, both lead and harmony, and he has developed top notch recording skills. Becoming a very fine songwriter as well. They just put out a new album, Unamericana, and I’ve listened a few times. It’s truly fine acoustic music. Here’s the playlist on YouTube. Hard work and persistence, hope it’s paying off for him. UnamericanaThat's $8.00 per 10,000 views. You'll never get rich by digging a ditch. Yeah, recorded music is now just a loss leader for live music. Josh is smart, learned how to do his own recording, mixing, and video work, (that’s his girlfriend who does the video.) And people still treat the guy who created Napster as some kind of cultural hero. |
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Post by Tamarack on Dec 7, 2021 16:36:57 GMT -5
I am happy to buy music at $15-$20 per album, which I assume results in fair compensation for the musicians, but it appears that buying albums is going extinct and everything is on streaming, which I dislike for many reasons (including being a grouchy old man)
iTunes appears to still be functional, but is being replaced by Apple Music, which is all streaming.
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Post by david on Dec 7, 2021 21:38:11 GMT -5
Something about live music being more profitable than recorded music appeals to me. I cannot put my finger on my own rational. Perhaps it is knowing that the people making the money are actually out working/performing, and not just performing once in a studio and getting paid repeatedly for it.
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Post by John B on Dec 7, 2021 22:41:14 GMT -5
Something about live music being more profitable than recorded music appeals to me. I cannot put my finger on my own rational. Perhaps it is knowing that the people making the money are actually out working/performing, and not just performing once in a studio and getting paid repeatedly for it. Yeah. I can't believe the remaining Beatles still get paid for Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, the White Album and any of those Abbey Road songs. I suppose Let It Be is OK because they at least performed some of those songs live. |
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Post by John B on Dec 7, 2021 23:52:42 GMT -5
I'm just jealous. Of anyone with creativity.
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Post by Marshall on Dec 8, 2021 0:05:10 GMT -5
Something about live music being more profitable than recorded music appeals to me. I cannot put my finger on my own rational. Perhaps it is knowing that the people making the money are actually out working/performing, and not just performing once in a studio and getting paid repeatedly for it. A very small percentage of the viewing public ventures out to see/hear live music. Only Mega-tours attract big bucks. (Did you video that gig I missed?) Yet, recorded music is EVERYWHERE. It's in TV. It's in commercials. It's in movies. It's even still on the radio. It sells everything.<-- Those are places the public interacts with music. Very few people actually venture out to a concert or other venue. We all wonder why popular music is so strange. It's because only strange seeking people (usually youngsters) go out and support live music. |
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Post by RickW on Dec 8, 2021 0:11:28 GMT -5
It’s why so much popular music is synths, MIDI, and loops. Don’t need other musicians, don’t need a full recording studio. Only way to be profitable.
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Post by millring on Dec 8, 2021 4:21:03 GMT -5
I'm not sure if Marshall is right. I'd have to ask folks like Pierce Pettis and Jack Williams and David Wilcox if they weren't making a pretty good part of their living from performing. In fact, if they were selling their recordings, it was often (if not exclusively) at their concerts.
They were doing exactly the same thing as the art fair world. While the man on the street might believe that academia and galleries and famous artists getting national attention from the establishment represent the "art world", in reality it was the small artist and art fairs that was outselling them all -- a million of us selling $100-$1,000 items to a million other of us rather than the one selling million dollar items to the elite (who, incidentally, were "investing" in them -- not buying them to live with them).
But we shut down that economy. It wasn't essential. The perception that it doesn't matter if Pettis or Williams or Wilcox goes around and play their jelly bean concerts was just a non-essential bit of something we could live without. Now they can't sell recordings AND they can't do live music. But we can watch them on youtube. yippee.
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Post by kbcolorado on Dec 8, 2021 7:17:28 GMT -5
I "liked" your post, John, but there's no icon for not liking it in equal measure.
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 8, 2021 8:04:14 GMT -5
Like that?
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Post by Marshall on Dec 8, 2021 9:07:16 GMT -5
I'm not sure if Marshall is right. I'd have to ask folks like Pierce Pettis and Jack Williams and David Wilcox if they weren't making a pretty good part of their living from performing. In fact, if they were selling their recordings, it was often (if not exclusively) at their concerts. They were doing exactly the same thing as the art fair world. While the man on the street might believe that academia and galleries and famous artists getting national attention from the establishment represent the "art world", in reality it was the small artist and art fairs that was outselling them all -- a million of us selling $100-$1,000 items to a million other of us rather than the one selling million dollar items to the elite (who, incidentally, were "investing" in them -- not buying them to live with them). But we shut down that economy. It wasn't essential. The perception that it doesn't matter if Pettis or Williams or Wilcox goes around and play their jelly bean concerts was just a non-essential bit of something we could live without. Now they can't sell recordings AND they can't do live music. But we can watch them on youtube. yippee. Nice post. I was at a party about 15 years ago in the city. The sister of a good friend threw it. Her well heeled hubby (now ex-hubby [messy affair]) was into Warhols. He had a 6 ft tall numbered Warhol print of Mick Jagger's head signed by Warhol & Jagger. |
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