• "Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift fro

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 20 09:02:33 2023
    Does this also apply to classical music recording companies?:

    - When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved
    music...Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big

    David Crosby: 1941 - 2023

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 20 09:26:10 2023
    Does that also apply to classical music recording companies?:

    - When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved
    music...Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.. The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and
    died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

    David Crosby: 1941 - 2023

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