Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer
if you are a record producer you're not going to sit in the studio and hum and har and waste VALUABLE time trying to write something really original (which can be really tough these days) when you can make something that's useful and good for a label straight away.
Surely this is the problem though, it can be a bit of a downward spiral, as people keep writing pure product, more people get bored of it, and so more turned off buying records, so the market gets smaller, so then the people think there's less chance of selling more original stuff, so they write more product, which turns people off even more, which leads to less sales, which leads to the producers and distributors thinking they have to play it safer, so less interesting music gets put out, which turns off even more people from buying records which leads to............. and it goes on and on like a downward spiral until there is no market at all for any music.... Letting the tail wag the dog is a dangerous game...

it's good though, that there are people like Si Begg putting out stuff with real diversity, and Label owners such as Jerome, who are in it for good music, deal with people fairly, and above all willing to take a risk...

History was never won by people who played it safe....