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Originally posted by Brad Blackwood
Many aren't, and it isn't the future, it's the now. Few serious producers don't have good studios of their own now... |
Well that's the real problem of the crappy state of music isn't it? Not MP3's, not file sharing, not even greedy grubby bloated labels. It's artists and producers having their own studios. I'm not making sense? Let me explain. It was all clearly laid out by Mr. Howard Stern. One time he has Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters in the studio on air. They go over the usual band/tour/girls banter. Dave then does some very good live acoustic versions of his songs. When asked about his next record Dave replies that they just built a studio in his house. He explains all the reasons why one would want a studio of their own which we all here know. Howard Stern then groans. "Don't do man." He then makes a convincing arguement about how the first sign of an artist completely sucking is when they have the werewithall to have their own studio. Many examples. Think of all the artists music that actually got better after they got their own studios. Of course this is heresy on this forum but it does have some ring of truth. You can also add to this maxim the ones where an artist starts writing their own material, producing their own albums or the truly fatal is when a band or artist moves to LA that isn't originally from there after a modicum of success. They end up just hanging out at parties with John Stamos and Billy Idol.