Networking. Networking. Networking.
The world is growing ever smaller as our technological innovations remix culture on a daily basis. It makes me think of Led Zeppelin taking old american blues songs and revamping them with the new electrification and amplification of their instruments. Taking the old and reworking them into the new and re-creating legendary music with a huge network of fans. This theme is especially prevalent in Anil Dash's video. The implications this has for us as writers is huge! I feel like remixing harry potter and twilight into one huge conglomeration of magic, fantasy, werewolf, vampire, fictional epicness that borrows from both stories...NOT! I really don't, J.K. Rowling already did that with Larry Potter and some how got away with it...
What fascinated me was ODD Future. They reminded me of how Wu Tang Clan got started, RZA got together with his crew and began producing music in his apartment, beats for the clan to rap on. He had a plan that in 5 years that crew would be on top, and he was right. They innovated the rap scene by beginning as a group and selling cds out of the back of their car, then before long Method Man, Ghostface killah, and the rest of them were coming out with solo albums and being successful. Being a musician it's is great to draw from people who are being successful and to use that to be innovative. Cure for the Common is not signed to a major record label which has it's up's and downs. I certainly would not sign onto a label where we didn't have full creative rights to put out what we want. We do have a CD with all original songs, so we didn't quite go the route of ODD. You can actually buy it off i-tunes, download it for free from our website, listen to it at www.grooveshark.com, and listen as well on soundcloud. My suggestion is to buy it! Heck you can even get it from me personally ; )
I hope that the creativity of our band will influence others, as I have been influenced by all the music that comes my way. Heck i'd be honored if someone remixed one of our songs!!
P.S.- what do people think about patenting genes? (previous blog entry)
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