Re: (TV) Artist expectations

["Jeremy Smith" <jeremy_ni_smith@hotmail.com>]

same here Well pissed off

and i onl hav half a k boad - accidn With dink


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Hartley" <jh@brainiac.com>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 10:17 PM
Subject: (TV) Artist expectations


> Time, I think, for a little explaination of my explosion a half-hour ago
> and a new essay on artist expectations.
>
> First, I'd spent a lot of time getting a machine running Windoze and the
> Windoze Media Player working.  Since Windoze is not my usual OS (I'm a
> Unix guy) this involved a little more than turning on the machine and
> downloading the player.  After all that, I spend hours trying to connect
> to the site thanks to overloaded servers and debugging the setup.
> (Especially annoying was the feed with video and no audio - I thought
> for sure it was my machin - nope, bum feed.  Another 45 minutes trying
> to reconnect after that.)  Then, as I keep trying to connect as the
> magic hour approaches, there's the word that TV's asked to not have the
> performance broadcast.  Well, damn, they could have told us earlier; I've
> known for days that Boards of Canada refused that permission.  OK, all
> that effort down the drain.
>
> So why am I so pissed off?  I mean, what did I expect for nothing?  A
> rubber biscuit?
>
> I posted this morning on the Pere Ubu newsgroup a reply to a person who
was
> asking David Thomas to listen to his music on the 'net and tell the poster
> what he (David) thought of it.  Well, on the PU website, there's a FAQ
that
> says you're free to send David your music, but please don't expect a
response
> of any sort, and I posted that fact.  I followed up with a comment that
this
> seemed perfectly reasonable, and that expectations of an artist should not
> extend beyond the right to purchase what the artist has sanctioned for
that
> purpose.
>
> So where do I get off getting cheesed at Tom for not allowing the webcast?
> I don't have a leg to stand on.  The timing of the announcement sucked,
but
> it's entirely possible that that was ATP's webmaster's fault.
>
> As a Television fan, my anger was really a manifestation of the lack of
> product available to me, the willing consumer.  I don't necessarily
> suggest that Tom or TV go to the Pearl Jam extreme of releasing
> close to every inch of tape available, but dammit, Tom, throw us a
> frikkin' bone from time to time.
>
> It's tough being a cash-wielding music consumer wanting to buy product
> from these guys.
>
> Asking a question like "What harm is there in a webcast?" is pointless;
> someone thinks it's detrimental to them professionally, so it doesn't
> happen.  That's their call.  As a professional musician, though, these
> folks need to understand that most people won't wait forever.
>
> Richard's got some performances that he released on the website, and I
> really appreciate that!  Finding those releases gives me the feeling that
> I'm hip to the scene, and more, that my effort to listen to RL's music is
> appreciated.
>
> So fine.  Tom can keep everything he's got under wraps, and never release
> another note to the world.  That's his perogative.  It's the perogative
> of the rest of the world to go "Huh?" when his name is mentioned because
> there's nothing available from him.
>
>
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