OT: working in the music industry

[Augusto Pinoche]

Brilliant, thanks!

>re-organize the company to achieve what they feel is "the absolute >future" 
>of it. A lot of people are well-intentioned, but >unfortunately >it takes a 
>musician to understand a musical product - >and there aren't many Business
>majors out there that carry a tune, let alone care what a quaver is. >They 
>only see projections, profits, losses, and then make arbitrary <decisions 
>based on those figures in this industry, namely because >they can't make 
>informed decisions when they have no idea what the >market is.

Absolutely.

>In the case of Gibson, that's just a bad company to work for
>unless you're an artisan specializing in guitars - and even that's >getting 
>trashed slowly. From my experience, Opcode is no more, >period. The only 
>thing that's being maintained is the web site, and >Gibson is not 
>interested in carrying out Opcode's products either >since all the talent 
>is gone. They did the same thing to Lynx Crowe >(Father of ZIPI), and
>indirectly to Tom Oberheim, through the buyout and subsequent >destruction 
>of their product line as well. I could rant about Gibson <for quite some 
>time, but I'll wrap it up with this: To me, Gibson >takes this business WAY
>too seriously. The music industry is supposed to be fun and >educational 
>while making money. If it can't be fun, then why do we >call it music?

Right, where is the fun part!
To me the music industry has developed into to an
ugly monster (more or less) ruled by some gready
people who's main intention is market monoploy.

Just look at the open source and the software
patent issues in general, its just a big mess.
There is just so much things taken place "behind" the curtain
that we just is'nt aware of, and maybe one should be happy
not knowing!!

AP
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