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Microsoft & Apple allowed music industry to collapse – (Video) John Kalodner (A&R Executive – Foreigner, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Billy Joel)
Video / Visuals by Stanka / written by Alen V.
All photos: PublicDomainPictures/organictalks.com
The first time I copied a mp3 file, I knew right away that this is going to be a disaster. No, of course not the copying itself, but the fact that I could drag and drop a music file from one hard disk to another within seconds, was quite a shock to me.
In the 80s and 90s, one still had to pay for music and do all sort of crazy things to get one’s hands on a rare and classy album that was out of print. I think no other industry got hit by the digital era as hard as the music business.
One million gigabyte for a cent
See, one could say that “sharing” made music availability easier for music lovers, but it isn’t. It, in fact, it destroyed an essential part of the creative process, which is money. You might laugh about this one, but think of all the epic albums of the past, where some recordings – sometimes – took a year’s work to completion.
We always think of the artists/musicians, but we shouldn’t forget that there was a huge team working in the background to deliver the record to the end-consumer – us. All this work has cost a lot of money, because top producers like Quincy Jones and A&Rs like John Kalodner had to be paid from the revenue made from the record sales.
Come and loot me
Probably, there are many more reasons for the desertification of music, but this is surely one of the most important arguments to make. However, when I came across this interview with John Kalodner; I was astonished to find out what he has to say on this issue. READ MORE AND WATCH VIDEO
