[atlantaprog] Re: Fripp on the music biz...

Got to love this quote from Frip, glade he's not an American, he would get chastised.
Hal

As long as the major labels still exist, what responsibilities do they have toward their artists?

He laughs. "Almost none. It's like the slave trade: 'We give our darkies two big meals a day, and we only beat them on Sundays.' But they're still 'darkies.' Artists in the mainstream are the niggers. It really is that simple. And the function of A&R is to smile a lot and persuade the artist that things are not actually as they see them as being.



Allen Welty-Green wrote:

Got this link from PE. Interesting article. Fripp seems a bit more down to earth than one might suspect...

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/99/18/music-payne.php



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