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rockfenris2005 12:42 pm UTC 02/13/15 |
| In reply to: | re: New Meat Loaf Article - nholland 10:53 am UTC 02/13/15 |
| There are a number of problems for me. 1) The record business at the moment. Just how it's changing in general. And people will be afraid to invest in new things. I'm sure it's like that right across the board. I was reading an article about new musicals on Broadway recently and I thought it was really depressing. They were basically saying from memory that unless people don't walk out of your show at this point screaming praise and telling all their friends to drop everything and go as soon as possible, then it probably won't work out. Would half of Sondheim's musicals have worked under these circumstances? :( It makes me wonder. Tickets are so expensive now. And mostly I believe because they have to be. Someone once told me that it's not like they're sitting back smoking cigars with golden ashtrays. There's just a lot of expense involved. It's difficult. It's always BEEN difficult. But it seems like it's really difficult now. But then how many people are going to be interested in a musical version of "Honeymoon in Vegas" anyway? They're turning the wrong movies into shows? Disney has the right idea with "Frozen". I don't know. 2) I feel that there's a problem with making comparisons. Many people pretty much regard Bob Dylan as a songwriting legend and John Lennon and Paul McCartney, all the songs they did together, and Springsteen and Billy Joel and Elton John/Bernie Taupin and JIM. I'll mention Benny and Bjorn from ABBA as well. But it's like, well, it seems to me that there's this attitude that people are comparing new writers to them. And that's just problematic for me. Bob Dylan succeeded when the world knew about how many other writers and composers? If it could just be accepted that these guys are legends, but that there could be new legends now, then that might help too. I'd love to hear Bill Johnson's songs when someone discovers him and makes him famous, and in thirty years they look back on his classics like Dylan's "Blowin' in the wind". The talent is out there!!! I'm not trying to sound BIASED either. I'm just saying this! IMHO, the talent is out there. There just needs to be some kind of adjustment or platform. PS. I believe that Jim could have big success with "Safe sex" and "What part of my body hurts the most?" and a few others. | |
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