Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks
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#2Full interview over at Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steve-miller-this...
Link provided originally has good back-story. Either should work fine though. Quite a read.
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#3Title says "This whole fucking industry sucks”, while he said "This whole industry fucking sucks”. Subtle fucking differences.
Re: Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks
#4Miles Davis on Steve Miller: “Steve Miller didn’t have his shit going for him, so I’m pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then when we got there, we smoked the motherfucking place, and everybody dug it.” http://www.openculture.com/2015/05/miles-davis-opens-for-nei...
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#5Title says "This whole fucking industry sucks”, while he said "This whole industry fucking sucks”. Subtle fucking differences.
Okay, I'll edit it for accuracy because you took the time to point it out. Either sentiment applies in my perspective so the transcription was unintnetional.
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#6In the "Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee" mockumentary, Kenny Loggins and the show and get their digs in at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in ‘Documentary Now!’ by Lorne Michaels, Fred Armisen And Bill Hader.
In the show, Loggins complains about the one album wonder Blue Jeans Committee that you can be working in the business for 30 years and have many hits and never even get invited to the ceremony (which describes Loggins.)
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#7Title says "This whole fucking industry sucks”, while he said "This whole industry fucking sucks”. Subtle fucking differences.
Okay, I'll edit it for accuracy because you took the time to point it out. Either sentiment applies in my perspective so the transcription was unintnetional.
but you'll ruin my wordplay
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#8I know it's trite to say, but it is probably good to be reminded how often people held up as being successful are, often, deeply unhappy. Michael Jordan is another canonical example.
To live these lives of unparalleled, almost supernatural greatness, and then end up embittered... The stoics did nothing wrong.
EDIT: to clarify, I'm not dismissing Miller's critique at all, I'm noting that someone living, literally, a rock star life, ends up in a deeply inhumane and, potentially, embittering environment.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, I'll edit it for accuracy because you took the time to point it out. Either sentiment applies in my perspective so the transcription was unintnetional.
but you'll ruin my wordplay
The life of a copy editor in the digital age is one rife with peril, so it seems.
Re: Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks
#10I know it's trite to say, but it is probably good to be reminded how often people held up as being successful are, often, deeply unhappy. Michael Jordan is another canonical example. To live these lives of unparalleled, almost supernatural greatness, and then end up embittered... The stoics did nothing wrong. EDIT: to clarify, I'm not dismissing Miller's critique at all, I'm noting that someone living, literally, a r…
How does this apply to the music industry sucking? I didn't take this as Steve Miller being an unhappy person though you are right, many successful people do end up the road down to depression -- Elvis being another great example.