How dare he suggests to shut down the internet after I invented it. Hey Elton, what to pull my finger???
Posted on 08/02/2007 7:32:19 AM PDT by John Cena
What is Sir Elton REALLY upset about? eh?
Why doesn’t he just shout it out,
“Pro Tools”
Musicians with real talent don’t make it in the business anymore. The ones with Magical pitch do!
By the way, Alec Baldwin should also stop referring to his daughter as a “Vile Pig”. From what I understand, she can actually sing without Pro Tools Helper. She doesn’t grunt out the lyrics.
“Let’s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging.”
Isn’t he the guy who threw a hissy fit about having to walk fifty yards to a royal event? Who’s he kidding about going on marches?
How dare he suggests to shut down the internet after I invented it. Hey Elton, what to pull my finger???
Shame on you, why would you insult morons.
LOL!
While I think the idea could never happen in a billion years, I am technophile who would love to see that experiment. We as humans do spend too much time in front of computers. What was supposed to free us is holding us captive.
I love the internet, my mp3 player, my digital camera and the like, but I could love without out them. And I do not think that other people realize how full their live would be if they were to really talk to people instead of IM cryptic messages.
Yea well...good luck with that one Elton. Maybe you can get a ban on DaVinci’s flying machine diagrams while you are at it.
In one day on FreeRepublic, I communicate with many more people, hear their opinions, comment back and have valid discussions than I MET in a week in the real world.
Lets bann reading and writing so we can go back to verbal story telling. Oh, wait, TV’s getting close to that.
It seems to me you live your life like a candle in the wind. Now blow.
Take two aspirins, and call a good psychiatrist if it doesn’t go away by the morning. Wait a minute, you’re Elton John. You probably don’t KNOW a good psychiatrist.
We would all be on the street corners because the economy crash if this were to happen. So we would be forced to speak to one another. BTW, I still do plenty of talking to others just as my forefathers have done. Like anything, moderation is the key.
IOW, it's hitting him in the fanny pack.
Case in point.
Johnny wants people to buy his music at retail since his profit level decreased so he blames users of the internet. That’s real intelligent, John boy! (sarc)
And here I thought the Internet was a new communication medium. Now I find out it was merely created to facilitate the music purveyors creativity. By all means, if it interferes with that, we must shut it down now, and damn the consequences to everything else on the Net.
Dame Elton, you’re an idiot.
He's right about this comment. But Elton....concerts in the 70's were about $10-$25. Now it's like 30 times that amount to see one of your concerts? No thanks gay rich man.
Ya know what killed music?
Recording.
Before recording, even small towns had a band that was a cherished local institution. Every fasmily had at least one person who could play an instrument, and any garden party had at least one person who could do it well. Even the folks who didn’t do as well took part and had fun.
Music was basic to life; it was communal, it was a thread that tied towns together. In churches, around campfires, at dances, it was friends and neighbors who would take the stage and give us a song or two.
When an out-of-town guest came to visit, he’d be asked to take a turn at the piano and share the songs that were popular back home; when a professional musician came to town on tour, it was a huge event that folks would turn out in their Sunday best to see, many of them picking up tunes and ideas they’d try themselves at the next gig.
That culture gave us the birth of the blues, jazz, gospel, soul, R&B, and rock & roll.
But then came records, and then came record labels. Music became a passive consumer event — not one person in a thousand who listened to music was involved in making music. Local musical cultures gave way to a homogenized national culture, dictated by big marketing budgets and manufactured based on image as much as musical substance.
The Internet is shattering the oligopoly of the labels. People are collaborating, across the world and on their own, not when they’re put together by some producer with a hit-making formula he pulled off the shelf.
The Internet isn’t the problem — it’s the solution. The problem, Sir Elton, is the commodification of music my marketers without an artistic bone in their body; in other words, by the very people and the very system, Elton, that made you rich and famous enough that anyone gives a damn what you have to say.
TRANSLATION: He's not finding enough young boys to molest
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