From des at efalkmedia.com Fri Aug 4 01:07:06 2017 From: des at efalkmedia.com (EMF) Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 01:07:06 -0400 Subject: [boc-l] Good article about the reality of the music business for senior bands like BOC Message-ID: Featuring Eric Bloom. An perhaps a brief hope for future music... http://www.ocweekly.com/music/blue-oyster-cults-eric-bloom-is-a-road-warrior-but-says-albums-dont-pay-8256912 -- "It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult." --Richard Brautigan --Check Out my blog and my journey: http://www.areturningadultstudent.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk Fri Aug 4 06:57:17 2017 From: jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk (Jonathan Jarrett) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 11:57:17 +0100 (BST) Subject: [boc-l] Good article about the reality of the music business for senior bands like BOC In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, EMF via boc-l wrote: > Featuring Eric Bloom. An perhaps a brief hope for future music... > > http://www.ocweekly.com/music/blue-oyster-cults-eric-bloom-is-a-road-warrior-but-says-albums-dont-pay-8256912 Thanks for posting that, it's actually quite encouraging in a grim way. The economics of it make sense, though there's a third way there where a good new song might find a public via the streaming and Internet distributions of which they seem so wary. But I would actually like to see this band do something else before they quit. I should also go see them again but they seem to have given up on touring in the UK, just doing festivals now. But people I know who've seen them there have given better reports than I'd have expected. I am so behind with it all, though. I only found out there was new Hawkwind just after the tour finished this May and I still haven't got it. Not because I don't care, just because I'm buying music in dribs and drabs from Discogs.com now and so don't see the kind of advertising to remind me that I used to. And of course, there was no mention of it here... But new BOC would also be good, as ever. I do play CotHM every now and then, mainly for 'Dance on Stilts' and 'Good to Be Hungry'. It means kind of tuning out the rest, of course... Yours all, Jonathan -- Jonathan Jarrett, Leeds jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk "May the Lord Almighty guard your life, because among other things it is of great value in silencing the idiocies of blatherskites." (Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury to Archbishop John of Rouen, 1073) From cea at carlaz.com Fri Aug 4 10:01:47 2017 From: cea at carlaz.com (Carl Edlund Anderson) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 09:01:47 -0500 Subject: [boc-l] Good article about the reality of the music business for senior bands like BOC In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2B5D3E53-2F61-4CB7-A946-6B3CA80ECB3D@carlaz.com> Well, so much news and discussion these days has moved (for good or ill) to social media platforms, I had actually almost forgotten that good ol? BOC-L exists until I saw these emails! Yeah, Eric is right: recorded music doesn?t pay. It has become principally an advertisement for live music. And quite likely older bands (I?ve seen various articles about older artists returning to the stage because that?s how ya gotta pay the bills!) with extensive and well-known back catalogs don?t have much incentive to write and record new material to serve as advertisements for their touring. You also see the arguments that a well-established older artist could ?damage their legacy? with a cruddy new song, and I have to admit that I see the argument (whether or not it might be the case), as much as it disappoints me. I can?t say that I am hugely disappointed that musicians need to gig to make money. I don't get to a lot of gigs these days, but I come from a background in which live performance was considered ?king? anyway. Hit the stage and rock, people! :) On the other hand, I do lament the diminished of incentive for artists with a solid roster of live songs to actually compose new stuff. Oh well! That?s the topsy-turvy music business for you! Meanwhile, since none of it affects me anyway, here are some links to my recently recorded cover of Bob Calvert?s/Hawkwind?s ?The Right Stuff?: https://soundcloud.com/carledlundanderson/the-right-stuff https://www.reverbnation.com/carledlundanderson/song/28351655-right-stuff-bob-calverthawkwind Yeah, yeah, I know: Mining other people?s back catalogs! :D Well, I pick away at my own new stuff as well (at least as fast as B?C do! :D ). Oh, did I post ?She Rides? here? That?s a semi-recent original song: https://carledlundanderson.bandcamp.com/track/she-rides https://soundcloud.com/carledlundanderson/she-rides https://www.reverbnation.com/carledlundanderson/song/28065977-she-rides Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson https://soundcloud.com/carledlundanderson/ https://carledlundanderson.bandcamp.com/ http://www.carlaz.com/music.html > On 04 Aug 2017, at 05:57, Jonathan Jarrett via boc-l wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, EMF via boc-l wrote: > >> Featuring Eric Bloom. An perhaps a brief hope for future music... >> >> http://www.ocweekly.com/music/blue-oyster-cults-eric-bloom-is-a-road-warrior-but-says-albums-dont-pay-8256912 > > Thanks for posting that, it's actually quite encouraging in a grim way. The economics of it make sense, though there's a third way there where a good new song might find a public via the streaming and Internet distributions of which they seem so wary. But I would actually like to see this band do something else before they quit. I should also go see them again but they seem to have given up on touring in the UK, just doing festivals now. But people I know who've seen them there have given better reports than I'd have expected. > > I am so behind with it all, though. I only found out there was new Hawkwind just after the tour finished this May and I still haven't got it. Not because I don't care, just because I'm buying music in dribs and drabs from Discogs.com now and so don't see the kind of advertising to remind me that I used to. And of course, there was no mention of it here... But new BOC would also be good, as ever. I do play CotHM every now and then, mainly for 'Dance on Stilts' and 'Good to Be Hungry'. It means kind of tuning out the rest, of course... Yours all, > Jonathan > > > -- > Jonathan Jarrett, Leeds jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk > "May the Lord Almighty guard your life, because among other > things it is of great value in silencing the idiocies of blatherskites." > (Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury to Archbishop John of Rouen, 1073) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From des at efalkmedia.com Sun Aug 13 01:00:15 2017 From: des at efalkmedia.com (EMF) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 01:00:15 -0400 Subject: [boc-l] BOC An interesting Buck Interview In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Seems there is some journalistic interest in the band these days. http://www.worldation.com/stories/31-crazy-facts-mash/?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=ak0n.pY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk Sun Aug 13 06:25:08 2017 From: jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk (Jonathan Jarrett) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 11:25:08 +0100 (BST) Subject: [boc-l] BOC An interesting Buck Interview In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, EMF via boc-l wrote: > Seems there is some journalistic interest in the band these days. > http://www.worldation.com/stories/31-crazy-facts-mash/?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=ak0n.pY Not at that link, maybe? But a quick search found me this: http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20170105/interview-buck-dharma-on-writing-blue-oyster-cults-biggest-hits , which apart from anything else told me that Sandy Pearlman died last year. I'd no idea. Yours all, Jon -- Jonathan Jarrett, Leeds jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk "May the Lord Almighty guard your life, because among other things it is of great value in silencing the idiocies of blatherskites." (Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury to Archbishop John of Rouen, 1073) From des at efalkmedia.com Sun Aug 13 13:17:17 2017 From: des at efalkmedia.com (EMF) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:17 -0400 Subject: [boc-l] BOC An interesting Buck Interview In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Oh that's right,BOC were never in a MASH episode... Here's the article I meant to send: https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2017-08-09/buck-dharma-in-the-21st-century/ Good find on the Herald Tribune article, Jon. On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 06:25:08 -0400, Jonathan Jarrett via boc-l wrote: > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, EMF via boc-l wrote: >> Seems there is some journalistic interest in the band these days. >> http://www.worldation.com/stories/31-crazy-facts-mash/?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=ak0n.pY > > Not at that link, maybe? But a quick search found me this: > http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20170105/interview-buck-dharma-on-writing-blue-oyster-cults-biggest-hits > , which apart from anything else told me that Sandy Pearlman died last > year. I'd no idea. Yours all, > Jon > -- "It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult." --Richard Brautigan --Check Out my blog and my journey: http://www.areturningadultstudent.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk Sat Aug 19 12:32:03 2017 From: jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk (Jonathan Jarrett) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:32:03 +0100 (BST) Subject: [boc-l] BOC An interesting Buck Interview In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, EMF via boc-l wrote: > Oh that's right,BOC were never in a MASH episode... > > Here's the article I meant to send: > https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2017-08-09/buck-dharma-in-the-21st-century/ > > Good find on the Herald Tribune article, Jon. Well, and likewise! I wish I'd known about the gigs where Albert came back to sing. I couldn't have gone, I don't think, but I don't know where I would even find out about such things now. Once, here, but not today. Thanks for posting that, though; the guy's B?C-mania gives several other links to follow as well. half an hour informatively and pleasantly spent! Yours, Jon ObLP: Lloyd Langton Group - _Like An Arrow (Through the Heart)_ -- Jonathan Jarrett, Leeds jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk "May the Lord Almighty guard your life, because among other things it is of great value in silencing the idiocies of blatherskites." (Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury to Archbishop John of Rouen, 1073)