MAB, thanks for your sage advice, it is your ability to look macro rather than the micro most of plebs see in which differentiates this site.
Like music itself, never know until you try.
As far as access to performers goes, it is true, these people are not living in ivory towers, there is just not the money available for such. Sure there are exceptions but it is rare not to meet the players at the pub before or after their gigs, they all want to sell merc LOL Even met Murray and had a chin wag with the “Red Wiggle” he is surprisingly tall (I am 6’ 3 and he had a few inches on me) and wasn’t a bad player either!
Even when I did our big country music festival in 2014, Tamworth, spent all of my nights in a photographic studio with all the players coming in for a late night / early morning jam. As always some are squirts of lemon in the eye but most of them are easy going and good blokes / sheilas so to speak.
So sure I will sit with John and no doubt take you up on the offer.
Like music itself, never know until you try.
There has been a move by the Country Music Academy CMA to develop co-writing between the participants but they are still rooted in OLD COUNTRY and run a song writing contest which has an arbitrary must be Australian aspect, yeh the fences, tractors and utes (trucks to you folks) are still a requirement – Jason Blume a couple of years ago suggested we are about 40 years behind the states… Mainstream radio is firmly rooted in MTV style pop and syndicated across the states with minimal Aus content
Repeat over
Like music itself, never know until you try.
Like music itself, never know until you try.
The COVER Solution
Heritage Overlays – our old buildings have a special charter of Heritage Overlay, preventing owners from destroying the façade in any way, in some cases even the actual construction and property itself. I think the music industry should investigate this and use it for certain songs, Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California, Dock of the Bay, Goodbye Yellow brick road, Pancho and Lefty (take note Willie and friend lol) , for the Aussies out there, Bow River etc. – these song can be played but only if played exceptionally well and if in the opinion of any single punter it is not of sufficient quality, a Heritage Overlay is demanded and they have to stop playing song, simple hey!!!
Arty
Like music itself, never know until you try.
As far as access to performers goes, it is true, these people are not living in ivory towers, there is just not the money available for such. Sure there are exceptions but it is rare not to meet the players at the pub before or after their gigs, they all want to sell merc LOL Even met Murray and had a chin wag with the “Red Wiggle” he is surprisingly tall (I am 6’ 3 and he had a few inches on me) and wasn’t a bad player either!
Even when I did our big country music festival in 2014, Tamworth, spent all of my nights in a photographic studio with all the players coming in for a late night / early morning jam. As always some are squirts of lemon in the eye but most of them are easy going and good blokes / sheilas so to speak.
So sure I will sit with John and no doubt take you up on the offer.
Like music itself, never know until you try.
There has been a move by the Country Music Academy CMA to develop co-writing between the participants but they are still rooted in OLD COUNTRY and run a song writing contest which has an arbitrary must be Australian aspect, yeh the fences, tractors and utes (trucks to you folks) are still a requirement – Jason Blume a couple of years ago suggested we are about 40 years behind the states… Mainstream radio is firmly rooted in MTV style pop and syndicated across the states with minimal Aus content
Repeat over
Like music itself, never know until you try.
Like music itself, never know until you try.
The COVER Solution
Heritage Overlays – our old buildings have a special charter of Heritage Overlay, preventing owners from destroying the façade in any way, in some cases even the actual construction and property itself. I think the music industry should investigate this and use it for certain songs, Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California, Dock of the Bay, Goodbye Yellow brick road, Pancho and Lefty (take note Willie and friend lol) , for the Aussies out there, Bow River etc. – these song can be played but only if played exceptionally well and if in the opinion of any single punter it is not of sufficient quality, a Heritage Overlay is demanded and they have to stop playing song, simple hey!!!
Arty
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