Dervish_D
Group: Members
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Posted: Mar. 10 2002, 05:29 |
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It seems strange that many of you really expect a good new album with "Tres Luna". What I do is just wait and see and wonder why Mike always claims to make music for himself but on the other hand has to make compromises in the form that he has to do a re-recording of "Tubular Bells". I assume it was not his idea, same with the release of an extra Audio CD along with the computergame. It would have been to risky for the record company to just release the game. To ensure the $-flow, the company shapes Mikes interesting idea of a computer game to certainly sellable "pieces of fan articles".I don't understand why Mike has to think about contracts and releases at all. If he would really make music for himself (and not for the good of the record industry), he would just make music, the way he feels and is. Noone must ever get to know how "simple", "unspectecular" this would be. What is strange in (Mike's ?) thinking, is, that it seems he regards good, what can be sold well. I thought these times were over with "Amarok". I thought it marked an end of a period, when he made music, he himself did actually not want because he was trapped in this "20-album-Virgin-contract-thing". No he is YEARNING for a contract to SELL his pieces!!!
Perhaps it is difficult with us, too because we are the ones that BUY his music and strengthen him in his view that "Tubular Bells=GOOD" and "new, innovative things=UUh, don't know, risky, what if nobody likes it". I wave out:"DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM HIM!!!" Don't be afraid, Mike will survive it (financially). BUT WHAT IF THIS WOULD MAKE SOMETHING GROW IN HIM THAT IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT??? Imagine, Mike would discover that e.g. cooking is the one and only passion and now makes faaaaaaantastic meal. 5 years later he might suddenly see his guitar and remembers the times and when he starts playing he notices he is a different person and it will be different music.
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