Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music business

Frank Zappa explains the decline and fall of the music business and comes to a surprising conclusion that the older generation was better for pushing new wave music that they didn't understand than the supposedly younger/hipper music executives.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Frank
• Zappa
• Cutting
• Edge
• Decline
• Music
• Business
• Industry

[Thespeakerofmanytru8]

Zappa a guy with good ideas and talent but always always ruined it by cheapening it with a quirky take or a deliberately controversial stance just for the sake of being overtly "different" to satisfy the art/intellectual set, Could have been THE god now he's just a god of a small and ever decreasing sect.

[schavira]

@Thespeakerofmanytru8 That is very untrue. This is coming from somebody who actively despises his core fanbase.

[JazzKeyboardist1]

but some people when asked to wear a condom sing,,frank's song PLASTIC PEOPLE,,, o baby now you're such a drag,,,,was frank embalmed to become the ultimate plastic person?

[ldad12]

Even thought you can't generalize about people I know what he's saying about the old school guys as opposed to the new, younger, "smarter", "hipper", school producers. Old school would give you a chance to fail. New School think that somehow they know what will sell and what people will like. Truth is no one knows that and never did.

[Thespeakerofmanytru8]

@schavira Oh come on man thats such an arrogant hipster stance to take against your own fans. What really killed music IMO is that people like Zappa made music into some sort of exercise in high-art and people began to focus more on the idea behind the music, rather than the finished music. Zappa was talented but his music is more art than music and that's why I dislike it. He was inadvertantly part of the decline in music we are living with today ie just give a good idea instead of a good song.

[sex6cult9revolution]

"I happen to think sex is really good for you". Me too, Frank.

[HumptyKing]

@Alimantado91 them yankee imperialism

[Alimantado91]

@HumptyKing Ha. That should have been "romanticising". Damn you Yankee imperialism.

[HumptyKing]

@Alimantado91 I don't agree but I love the word 'romanticizing'.

[Alimantado91]

@HumptyKing I think you are romanticizing the past. Most recordings done before the 70s were often crude and only designed to be listened to over cheap radio speakers. Labels were production lines eg Sun/Motown. Hi fidelity/sterophonic sound etc and star producers only came along in the late 60s on. The music industry was a ruthless capitalist enterprise in the first half of the 20th century. Mucisians "taylored" their music to meet audience demand etc. Read some bios of Blues artists.

[HumptyKing]

@Alimantado91 there were so many people in the old days too. But they were better musicians/producers. Bands try to go to small 'indie' labels...that are controlled by the great labels and their A&Rs, they have no music taste, only money taste...hard for musicians to earn money out of doing music without a record label...so professionality in music is disappearing.