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longlongwinter
Well said and very accurate! Our boy Mick was way ahead of his time in creating Rolling Stones records in 1970 or so.
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GasLightStreet
If you don't want to be a musician/band/artist doing your own thing then there's no need to be an artist that records, just go play weddings or the stupid roadhouse in town that prefers to hire cover bands or whatever festival that hires cover bands and do the same old boring stupid boring songs that everyone knows and can hear on the radio - or Spotify etc - any day.
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GasLightStreet
If you don't want to be a musician/band/artist doing your own thing then there's no need to be an artist that records, just go play weddings or the stupid roadhouse in town that prefers to hire cover bands or whatever festival that hires cover bands and do the same old boring stupid boring songs that everyone knows and can hear on the radio - or Spotify etc - any day.
This sounds vaguely like a band I love that used to record...
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GasLightStreet
If you don't want to be a musician/band/artist doing your own thing then there's no need to be an artist that records, just go play weddings or the stupid roadhouse in town that prefers to hire cover bands or whatever festival that hires cover bands and do the same old boring stupid boring songs that everyone knows and can hear on the radio - or Spotify etc - any day.
This sounds vaguely like a band I love that used to record...
Yikes! Yeah, I wasn't thinking of the Stones but it does ring - similar to the Mick and Monty Python bit.
I guess I just despise cover bands. At least the Stones are covering themselves!
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kovach
I do wish somebody had something more like Google Play Music that had a music manager that backed up your stored files automagically for playing in any device so you could log into your Google account and play anywhere
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kovach
Spotify (and perhaps my family) gives me fits.
My family was tired of hearing so much of my music on family trips, because I probably have 5X the music my wife and kid have combined.
We could never agree on SIRIUSXM channels either, I bounce around between Outlaw Country, Classic Vinyl, Margaritaville, reggae, blues, my kid loves heavy metal and my wife is stuck in the 80s, so I cancelled it.
So rather than search for my favorite 5k songs I've ripped to WMA's, I found a way to convert to MP3 and upload to Spotify and download to our devices (yes, I know audiophiles, lossy is bad enough, converting is even worse, but they sound surpringly good!).
All just to get back to my favorite songs before and allow my family access to a bunch more quickly and cheaply.
The end result is my kid has a more varied musical taste than I thought and matched my ~5k songs, my wife is still stuck in the 80s so now hears her music half as much as before and now doesn't like Spotify.
I do wish somebody had something more like Google Play Music that had a music manager that backed up your stored files automagically for playing in any device so you could log into your Google account and play anywhere, but sadly that's gone and its replacement, YouTube Music, is a far cry from its predecessor.
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GasLightStreet
If you don't want to be a musician/band/artist doing your own thing then there's no need to be an artist that records, just go play weddings or the stupid roadhouse in town that prefers to hire cover bands or whatever festival that hires cover bands and do the same old boring stupid boring songs that everyone knows and can hear on the radio - or Spotify etc - any day.
This sounds vaguely like a band I love that used to record...
Yikes! Yeah, I wasn't thinking of the Stones but it does ring - similar to the Mick and Monty Python bit.
I guess I just despise cover bands. At least the Stones are covering themselves!
what's the Mick and Monty Python bit?
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Green Lady
What you have to remember about streaming services is that you are basically buying a tailored radio station: the music is never yours and can be withdrawn or cancelled at any time. Fine for well known stuff that will always be around, but for anything unusual that you really value, it's worth having a personal copy. It's like all those photo-hosting sites - lovely until they pull the Photobucket blackmail trick on you or go out of business taking your collection with them.