Thanks to Ken Nickerson for the find!
Month: October 2022
Leave it to Linus Akesson, 8-bit music maker extraordinaire and creator of other retrofitted instruments such as the Sixtyforgan and Qwertuoso to create an electronic accordion with two Commodore 64 computers, floppy disks, and duct tape: The Commodordion!
Writing about the Commodordion is like dancing about architecture — the best way to understand it is to watch Linus’ video below:
According to iGroove’s recent study (original German version here, English interpretation here), a musician or band can expect to get paid 0.3¢ to 0.5¢ per Spotify stream, which means that they’d need somewhere between 200 to 333 streams of one of their songs to make a single dollar. Music may be what musicians make, but unless you’ve made it big, it doesn’t pay the bills.
Want to really support your favorite act, especially if they’re small? Go to their shows, see the live, and buy their merchandise. When you see artists live, you not only get a one-of-a-kind experience, but you also support them in the most effective way possible. Most of the money from tickets and merch goes directly to the artists, rather than the “middlemen” — the record labels, distributors, or streaming services.
There’s a famous six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway that goes as follows:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
The six-word story told by the two signs above has a little more dark humor.
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Have a great Saturday night!
I’m having a quiet Saturday night, which I’ve earned after so many Saturday night at places like the one pictured above!
(BTW, speaking from experience, the right “Jeff” can do wonders for a band’s sound.)
(Need context? Dick’s best-known novel is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, published in 1968 and made popular by the film based on it: 1982’s Blade Runner.)
It’s true; Tucker did go on a rant about that: