Gye Greene's Thoughts

Gye Greene's Thoughts (w/ apologies to The Smithereens and their similarly-titled album!)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Insight from Devo guy

Devo was my first favorite band. I now probably have ten favorite bands (although I'd have to sit down to enumerate them). Anyhow:

The lead singer guy from Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, was interviewed for the Geek a Week Podcast (#49 on this list; right-click on the "podcast" link to download the audio file).

He raised the point that, back in the day, big corporations had a huge amount of control over whose music and movies was available to the public: if they thought they could make money off it, they'd release it; if they didn't, no one would get to hear your stuff.

Whereas, now-a-days, you can post your stuff to YouTube, MySpace, and etcetera -- and it's open to the world.

That's a good point. Although it **does**, of course, require people to actually find out about you.


He also pointed out that the cost-to-processing-power ratio (my term) is a lot better. To elaborate on what he implied, but didn't quite say: if you already own a computer, for a few hundred bucks and a microphone, you can record your own music; or if you have a digital camcorder, you can do your own video editing and make your own film short.

Good stuff. He says he wishes he was twenty, right now. A good time to be a creative artist.


--GG

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