The Recording Industry and Me
So, with all these recent posts about music, you might be asking, just what do I know about the music industry. Or you might not, as you almost certainly have better things to be doing.
In the event that you'd like to pursue this line of inquiry, I'll have you know that one of my Japan pictures (the Japan picture index is here), after some heavy PhotoShopping, is on the demo CD cover of a band from California.
(One of the guys in the band emailed me to ask if they could use it. I initially thought it was spam, but the concept was strange enough that I followed the link, and it's either a band, or a really, really complicated Internet hoax. I'm going with "band," and a sense of annoyance that I even have to wonder about this.
(Obligatory disclaimer: I haven't listened to any of their songs because, well, I'm lazy.)
And if that's not enough, I got a request from someone who read my booklog entry on Jim Macdonald's book of bawdy songs, and asked me to contribute rugby songs to his collection of field recordings of bawdy songs. Clearly, this is someone who has never heard me sing.
(I may yet decide to do that, but I'd feel awfully silly singing rugby songs over the phone. Also, I'd probably need to be half in the bag to remember the lyrics, and I've got a lot to do right at the moment...)
Anyway, that ought to cement my reputation as a musical expert. In the sense of "cement it to something heavy and pitch it into a river," maybe, but you take what you can get.
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