John Taylor of Duran Duran at UCLA Conference on the 40th Anniversary of the Internet

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

I thought this is very thoughtful. It touches on issues I've read about in articles about what's going on w/ music and popular culture generally since about the mid-1990s. Like his point about the lessening of innovation and artistic growth b/c of swimming around in the "backwater" and not living & creating in the here & now, maybe it's better to have access to only 100 songs all created in the current year - that point links up w/ this one about the Nirvana "revival" phenomenon:

http://www.slate.com/id/2302202/

His talking about riding his bike to town to get a Roxy Music record reminds me of the Musicology video as well as someone's post on this site about the "quest" to acquire bootlegs - the "power of restriction" led to a "trial of manhood," an "adventure," and lifelong fandom. He talks about limited access to artists are part of their magnetism, which is diluted nowadays.

The Q&A part is also interesting b/c he talks about his website - I think he had the 1st? - and how difficult it was. He says he liked the idea of "selling" directly to the audience (not interacting w/ them, apparently there can never be enough to satisfy them), so he went back to the record label model.

Last thing - these people who get up & entertain us all these years (DD, Prince, many others), they REALLY seem to love it, care about it, I can sense how passionate they are about their art & craft. Amazing.