Yeah. I think it's great that Pearl Jam and Aimee Mann are now making it on their own, and I wish them nothing but success. But, well, you got the point. They're good news, and probably a sign of something, but they're not the revolution Eric Olsen is looking for.
Ani DiFranco was the best example I came up with, too. (Fugazi might also come to mind if I knew more about them, but I don't.) And the difference between her and Pearl Jam is partly what I meant when I declined to define "success". If she can make a living income year after year from her music, and she's happy making it, then what's not successful about that?
And a lot of my favorite musicians have, by choice or misfortune, never signed with a big label. (It's a little surprising to me how many of my favorites have signed--even Ida, whom I think of as a paragon of indie, made in my opinion their best album with Capitol's money, although Capitol didn't end up releasing it.) But I don't know how many of them have made a self-sustaining business out of it, never mind the kind of popularity Pearl Jam has.
Maybe it's too early to say. I guess I should stop theorizing and get back to work.
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Date: 2003-06-14 09:35 am (UTC)Ani DiFranco was the best example I came up with, too. (Fugazi might also come to mind if I knew more about them, but I don't.) And the difference between her and Pearl Jam is partly what I meant when I declined to define "success". If she can make a living income year after year from her music, and she's happy making it, then what's not successful about that?
And a lot of my favorite musicians have, by choice or misfortune, never signed with a big label. (It's a little surprising to me how many of my favorites have signed--even Ida, whom I think of as a paragon of indie, made in my opinion their best album with Capitol's money, although Capitol didn't end up releasing it.) But I don't know how many of them have made a self-sustaining business out of it, never mind the kind of popularity Pearl Jam has.
Maybe it's too early to say. I guess I should stop theorizing and get back to work.