Tower Records' founder on its rise & fall
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Uploaded by jdlasica on Jan 19, 2007
A revealing 9-minute interview with Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records, about the music retailing giant's rise and fall. He also talks about Napster, the ipod (he won't use one), trends in the music industry, and how the CD isn't dead.
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Yeah thank God for the kids . Who will work for minimum wage at your record supermarket.
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That was an outstanding interview!!
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The kids ARE still collecting objects.....the newest I-pod, the newest 4G phone, etc etc........the "ten billion gigs" of music they hold is incidental.
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i miss Tower i worked at west covina Tower records for 3 years .it was the greatest job in the world i was there intill they locked the doors..
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I like and admire Rus I do,......but........he is a dinousaur. This interview has quaint notions but it just isnt reality. Now or evermore. The world has changed since 1941 when Russ started selling records.
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He isso right, people will want to own objects again! After all we are a greedy society. I get criticized by people all the time for buying CD's instead of downloading but I collect!
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The last 10yrs have been cultural hell in mainstream music. Music will have to go through a regeneration and music fans will come to understand artists need direct support to stay in the game. This is a difficult time of transition in music history..
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Now that I own thousands of CDs, I'm glad today's kids don't have record stores to shop in. They never bought and now they don't have. Tough.
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As long as R5 sells music, I'll buy it. Thank you Russ!
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as long as the music industry continues to release crappy music and setting up this monopoly on where its very difficult to avoid their crap i will not buy a cd ever again
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Go Russ! The music business has really been digging its own grave, especially with its ridiculous pricing that encourages people to steal instead. They still need a big kick in the balls, too bad Tower got hurt before they did.
eyeh8cbs 5 years ago 5
This interview really captured Russ. Best of luck to R5, if anyone can get the kids back to collecting "objects" again, it's Russ. And it ain't just the kids missing out on quality sound, we've all gotten used to hearing the lack of MAJESTY in music. "It don't MOVE, fella's, let's get real, real GONE for a change!" (Elvis) It ain't gone no more...shame.
lyricalwhip 3 years ago 3