rap said:

hls2000 said:

I think it's precisely because he doesn't put everything out there - twitter about what he ate & where he's at, have a reality show, talk about his love life, reveal personal quirks, explain his lyrics, explain his religion, etc. etc.

There's a speech by John Taylor of Duran Duran (yes, a speech - at UCLA) which apparently no one has watched or gives a damn about, but he talks about how much of a fan he still is of Roxy Music. He talks about the first time he saw Roxy Music on TV, how he yearned to see it over & over again but there was no DVR (or VHS!), how difficult it was to get the record (riding his bike to town), how difficult it was to know anything about them - and that he's glad for it. He's glad he had limited access to them, b/c if he could have satisfied all his desire for them, he would have done so, but THAT, in turn would have burst his bubble of enthusiasm. He talks about how limitation and restriction are good things - after all these yrs, whenever he comes across a limited edition Roxy Music this or that, he still feels that impulse to have it b/c it's rare. He says artists dilute their creative potency and the magnetism they have over their audience when there's no limitation to access.

Btw, at the Q&A session after the speech, Taylor talks about his website (he was the 1st or one of the 1st to have a website to distribute music directly, in the mid-90s). He says he liked "the idea of interacting directly... no, the idea of selling directly to fans," but that it was incredibly difficult to run something like that, plus it seemed however much you offered, it was never enough. So he shut it down. And he went back to the major label model. He also mentioned that it was hard to keep up w/ unofficial internet stuff, b/c in order to make something available on his website, everything had to be approved by so many parties that it was old news by the time he could put it on his site.

Anyway, just something to think about.

I believe Prince referred to that in an interview this year.

Regarding people wanting any/everything at the click of a mouse, but how satisfying it was when he tracked down an LP.

Perhaps somebody here can track down that interview??

Here's the Taylor talk at UCLA...that was a live webcast, and it's now online. Or were you asking for a Prince interview? He talked about finding music on vinyl during that April 2011 appearance on George Lopez.

I've included some news articles along with the Taylor video.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2447922

http://tinyurl.com/3udunbd

http://tinyurl.com/ydek6vv

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NiceNBreezy said:

rap said:

I believe Prince referred to that in an interview this year.

Regarding people wanting any/everything at the click of a mouse, but how satisfying it was when he tracked down an LP.

Perhaps somebody here can track down that interview??

Here's the Taylor talk at UCLA...that was a live webcast, and it's now online. Or were you asking for a Prince interview? He talked about finding music on vinyl during that April 2011 appearance on George Lopez.

I've included some news articles along with the Taylor video.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2447922

http://tinyurl.com/3udunbd

http://tinyurl.com/ydek6vv

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Yes I was talking about Prince. I thought it was a print interview ...

'Interesting' is an interesting word. It almost sounds bland and banal. Is that your question, or do you mean exciting, provocative and thought-provoking?

NouveauDance said:

'Interesting' is an interesting word. It almost sounds bland and banal. Is that your question, or do you mean exciting, provocative and thought-provoking?

I know...I know...(that word IS banal). And yes, that's what I meant -- exciting, provocative and thought-provoking. And seductive and mysterious too. All of which keeps us, well, interested.

rap said:

NiceNBreezy said:

Here's the Taylor talk at UCLA...that was a live webcast, and it's now online. Or were you asking for a Prince interview? He talked about finding music on vinyl during that April 2011 appearance on George Lopez.

I've included some news articles along with the Taylor video.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2447922

http://tinyurl.com/3udunbd

http://tinyurl.com/ydek6vv

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Yes I was talking about Prince. I thought it was a print interview ...

Wasn't it the Volkskrant interview?

dJJ said:

rap said:

Yes I was talking about Prince. I thought it was a print interview ...

Wasn't it the Volkskrant interview?

Here it is:

http://www.thedawnexperience.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1941

Thanks for that interview w/ Prince on the dawnexperience.

To clarify any confusion, I was referring to a speech & Q&A w/ John Taylor of Duran Duran, someone who's also been in the biz for 3 decades. It was at the 40th Anniversary of the Internet Conference held at UCLA. He doesn't clearly state what his speech has to do w/ the internet, but I totally get the connection. By speaking about popular culture and accessibility of music PRE-INTERNET, he's telling us about what has changed since the internet. Namely, mystique is lost, cultural relevance is diluted, fan devotion is lost, image (which is so important to rock n roll & to teens) falls to the wayside, and innovative culture (and I would say the iconoclasm of rock n roll, or even youth culture as a whole) is more difficult to achieve (in fact, I don't see it in the last 10-15 yrs - thus the need to rehash stuff like Nirvana, which came up just as the internet was on the rise, the last breath of iconoclasm). It's a very thoughtful and though-provoking little piece. Again, he also talked briefly about his foray into distributing music through his own website - he was the 1st (or one of the 1st?) to do so.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...3sUUbAr99I

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

NiceNBreezy said:

dJJ said:

Wasn't it the Volkskrant interview?

Here it is:

http://www.thedawnexperience.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1941

hls2000 said:

Thanks for that interview w/ Prince on the dawnexperience.

To clarify any confusion, I was referring to a speech & Q&A w/ John Taylor of Duran Duran, someone who's also been in the biz for 3 decades. It was at the 40th Anniversary of the Internet Conference held at UCLA. He doesn't clearly state what his speech has to do w/ the internet, but I totally get the connection. By speaking about popular culture and accessibility of music PRE-INTERNET, he's telling us about what has changed since the internet. Namely, mystique is lost, cultural relevance is diluted, fan devotion is lost, image (which is so important to rock n roll & to teens) falls to the wayside, and innovative culture (and I would say the iconoclasm of rock n roll, or even youth culture as a whole) is more difficult to achieve (in fact, I don't see it in the last 10-15 yrs - thus the need to rehash stuff like Nirvana, which came up just as the internet was on the rise, the last breath of iconoclasm). It's a very thoughtful and though-provoking little piece. Again, he also talked briefly about his foray into distributing music through his own website - he was the 1st (or one of the 1st?) to do so.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...3sUUbAr99I

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

Listened to the Taylor talk all the way through. It was great. I checked out Roxy Music (since the group influenced him so deeply as a teenager), and they're not my cup of tea...I'm spoiled by Prince's voice. Nothing compares.

Not anymore.