http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2009/08/11/quote-of-the-day-2/ First in Music Analysis Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:58:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2009/08/11/quote-of-the-day-2/#comment-527633 blixa » sortir de la tyrannie du LP Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:53:09 +0000 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/?p=2151#comment-527633 [...] jamais été aussi abordable”. Cependant, d’après les recommandations de nombreux intervenants du monde musical, il est désormais plus judicieux de maintenir un contact rapproché avec les fans [...] [...] jamais été aussi abordable”. Cependant, d’après les recommandations de nombreux intervenants du monde musical, il est désormais plus judicieux de maintenir un contact rapproché avec les fans [...]

]]> http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2009/08/11/quote-of-the-day-2/#comment-527450 Goodbye Album, Hello 3P | GrindEFX Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:33:21 +0000 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/?p=2151#comment-527450 [...] As Bob Lefsetz explains, The old paradigm of making a record every three, four or five years and flogging it around the world, making sure Inuits and third world denizens are aware of it before you go back into the studio, is dead.  It’s about placating your core.  And your core does want access, but what it wants most is music.  A huge fan will buy your album the day it’s released (if he doesn’t steal it weeks before, and then buy it in support anyway!) and play it incessantly for…a few weeks?  I’ve played a number of albums for a week straight.  But after that, you know it, you move on, you want something NEW!  So, when radio tells you they’ve got the new track by ___________ your ears used to prick up, until you found it was another album cut that you digested YEARS AGO! [...] [...] As Bob Lefsetz explains, The old paradigm of making a record every three, four or five years and flogging it around the world, making sure Inuits and third world denizens are aware of it before you go back into the studio, is dead.  It’s about placating your core.  And your core does want access, but what it wants most is music.  A huge fan will buy your album the day it’s released (if he doesn’t steal it weeks before, and then buy it in support anyway!) and play it incessantly for…a few weeks?  I’ve played a number of albums for a week straight.  But after that, you know it, you move on, you want something NEW!  So, when radio tells you they’ve got the new track by ___________ your ears used to prick up, until you found it was another album cut that you digested YEARS AGO! [...]

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