[klaatumail] Re: Dav'es tips for success
- From: "Dwayne Bunney" <earthshadows@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:27:45 +1000
I hope everyone here has Dee's material. I was amazed at how good it is and
disappointed that it took me so long to get into it.
I prefer outside over wttf, but that's just my heavier taste. I would
pre-order (and promote as much as I could) anything Dee did in future no
questions asked.
Dwayne
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Subject: [klaatumail] Re: Dav'es tips for success
At Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:01:15 Jim wrote:
> Dave - good tips. I keep repeating them to Paul McCartney, too. He needs
to rediscover his success of the 1970s.
>
> The problem here is that we think the members of Klaatu should relive
their 70s success. But just as it is impossibly hard for a new artist to
break into the charts, it is even harder for an older artist to repeat.
Commercial success is not around the corner, but these artists still have
the music in them, music they are driven to make and share. We have to
accept that these will be low-scale efforts.
>
> As much as they wish it were otherwise, I think a lot of musicians who
keep at it have accepted this limitation. After all, the last time I saw Dee
perform was in a small room in London O. He and the organizers knew better
than to try to fill a MegaDome.
>
>
You are a wise one, Sir James.
And this is the reality I cannot, for the love of God nor money, get some
Klaatu fans to understand/accept/entertain.
The most telling comment you make is "...music they are driven to make and
share". And that's the problem.
ONLY Dee is driven by his music. Draper used to be but when he realized that
he could not play by Klaatu's ridiculously unrealistic expectations of
success without effort (i.e. sitting back and letting the music speak for
itself), he stopped pursuing it as a career and is now, barely, a hobbiest.
I am encouraged by his return to the fold with the "Highway Of Heroes"
track, but he hasn't changed anything about his approach to promoting and
developing a contemporary game plan in 10 years except adding a female
vocalist and posting a video on YouTube. He's still running on the
assumption that people want to hear operatic opus's that are 5-10 minutes
long and contain audio samples that pre-date the earliest polyphonic
keyboards.
And John is unwilling to make ONE concession in an effort to resume his
music career. Where Draper's at least stepped into the '90s kicking and
bitching, John realized long ago that to make new music would also mean
sacrificing and compromising everything he's stood for in the last 35 years.
For him it was never a matter of writing a bunch of songs for his own sake
and hoping someone might like them. It was about making the BEST records
money could buy and hoping EVERYONE liked it. Five Klaatu albums showed him
that could never be maintained. In his opinion, the greatest representations
of his musical talent are now behind him so, where can you possibly go
except to a place of disappointment after that?
Sometimes, when you've painted the Sistine Chapel, you need to lay down your
brushes and say, "I've done the best I can do". Look at Michael Jackson's
"Thriller"....there would have been no shame had Jackson walked away from
the industry after that and said, "That's all I got". But he was driven by
ego and loneliness for acceptance.
JW is not hell-bent on having to prove himself over and over again. He's
quite content letting his legacy speak for itself.
Dee, meanwhile, is in love with music and how it can be bent and manipulated
not to mention how he loves to watch (and even help) it evolve. He's the guy
that writes songs "just because". He'd love to continue making a living at
it and has done things to try and make that happen...including playing a
small club in London or a computer store in Whitby or an ill-suited dance
club in Oshawa or a college blues bar in downtown Toronto.
Personally, I hope people continue supporting Dee achieve some solo success
and spend a lot less time hoping for a Klaatu revival. The former can be
achieved, the latter is unrealistic.
Jaimie Vernon,
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