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Friday, June 4, 2010

Musicians Can't Force Fans To Buy Their Music



Flying in the face of the widespread notion amongst a large majority of musicians I am not doing the world a favour by making my music available to listen to. I am making it available to listen to as, firstly, I enjoy creating it immensely. Secondly I would like to think that someone out there somewhere might get a kick out of it and it may brighten their day, take their mind off unpleasantries or give someone some food for thought or discussion. Thirdly, there is nothing more that I can do with it.


Having put my music here, there and everywhere for the above reasons, at the end of the day the choice is yours as to whether you decide to listen to it or not. It doesn’t take hours of listening to figure out whether you dig someones’ music or not.


The next choice that is yours is if you decide that you like a particular artists work enough to follow their progress then it is easy enough to follow them. If you decide that you like my genre of music then the form immediately below places you on my mailing list thus enabling me to immediately notify you of a current release.


Hopefully you are not swayed by glossy posters expensive advertising campaigns and the likes. Keith Richards oft-quoted view on music is, "Pass it on." I like to take his perspective on music one step further, particularly with regard to my own personal musical road and add, "Nothing is weird." I choose to record the genre of music that I do, that’s all. It’s you who make the choice as to whether you dig it or not.




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