Before I leave for my speaking engagement at SXSW 2010, I thought I’d jump back through the Moose blog and revisit some of my essays. What follows below are links to all the longer think tank essays that I’ve written in the year March 2009 – March 2010, bracketed by SXSW 2009 and 2010. Upon rereading them, I find that as the year went along, that I have become increasingly disillusioned and frustrated by musicians’ lack of strategy for embracing the Social Web. And by lack of strategy I don’t mean tactics like having a MySpace page or posting a video to YouTube, I mean strategy..I hope to find a way to explain myself in the limited time that is available on the panel.
The essays are in chronological order starting in April 2009.
April 09 The End of The Recording Album as The Organizing Principle
June 09 The eMusic and Sony Fiasco
August 09 District 9 and The Problem With Movie Reviews in a Digital Age
December 09 Dear Musicians, Please Be Brilliant or Get Out Of the Way
December 09 At The End of The Decade All Musicians Need Are Grand Visions
February 10 A SXSW magazine Interview With Dave Allen
February 10 The Musicians Are Complaining Again
March 10 Musicians And Social Media – Holcombe Waller and Ume
March 10 The Austin Chronicle Interview with Dave Allen
March 10 SXSW and Living My Life in Public
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March 15th, 2010 at 2:51 am@Dave,
Your musings on these topics have always been inspirational, but collecting this material here in one easy-to-click collection quite frankly transcends the word. Not to gush, mind you. I just like all this energy concentrated in once place. Nice one.
Said it before, and will say it again–a Dave Allen version of Martin Atkins’s Tour:Smart would be a delight indeed. Especially if you collected contributions from Roy Christopher, BEDM and other assorted characters. “The Contrarian’s Guide To A Life In Music” may be a title dribbling out of my brain after a glass of red wine too many, but I’d happily surrender claim to it if you bribed me with a pint of Stella. Heh.
I would also be pleased to contribute a small 500 word entry about the perils of trying to promote a band called “Toilet” in Japan–the language barrier alone gets you escorted to the gents with annoying frequency. Somehow, we communicated ourselves in the end :-)
March 15th, 2010 at 8:09 pm