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Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
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Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
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The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.
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My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.
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I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.
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Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.
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It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
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Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities.
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But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.
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I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.
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No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
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We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.
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