The post I did on "*Masha Qrella*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/44280 yesterday lead me to "*Stereolab's MySpace*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=34575430 which is one of my all time desert-Island acts but then I started wondering how involved these artists are with their MySpace profile pages...did John Cotlrane have one? ("*there's a tribute page*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=33658502 with about 22,000 friends...Gram Parsons doesn't...Remember Adam Ant from back in the 80s? Well "*Adam has a MySpace*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=33658502 with links back to his official site but Kraftwerk only "*has a group*":http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupID=100003676&MyToken=62389e08-3734-4a68-a9c7-a82406ca4f5e with just shy of 500 members and fan page with 750 members while "*Willie Nelson has 94,487 friends*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=12411479 on his profile page......the latter seems a bit odd to me for some reason maybe it's because Ryan Adams and the long deceased Johnny Cash are among Willie's list of his "friends"...of late I've been to Rupert Murdoch's connection to the pulse of what's happening in cyberspace a couple of times to check out small bands' music but I can't help but feel that those in charge of my faves' catalogue (like "*the people who handle Cash's catalogue*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=21386866 ) are trying to squeeze a little more juice out of their corpses....I work with record companies and all but MySpace still skeeves me out for some inexlicable reason and I have to wonder how much coverage is enough or has the rose tint in my glasses clouded my judgement? Am I being a digital Goody Two-Shoes? Does having a Multiply or LastFM membership contravene on said skeevy-feeling? What's the dealie, yo?
SatisfiedMind614 says
I know from experience that none of the artists on the Lost Highway label(Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams,etc) don't have any control over their myspace pages...the label runs them all...I imagine all of the bigger companies act the same way
Nixne Svix says
some of those artists sites are phonies, myspace is only good for me as a way for old friends to find me and quickly give info to alot of people, i only use mine because certain people i know and bands i like can keep me in the loop , i honestly hate it now, its a cultural dual edged sword....
jenipop says
Awesome, "skeeve" is my number-one verb for describing why I deleted my membership - that and the Murdoch banner. Not that I was leaving anyone behind, really - think there was the innocuous "Tom," a friend's band and a favorite publicity house in all. I don't know how much content is provided by the artist versus the label. That's a good question. My assumption is that a personal blog entry indicates a higher degree of hands-on participation but maybe those are also manufactured in some instances? I don't know. Now I'm broken inside. Where do I get a pair of those glasses?
The post I did on "*Masha Qrella*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/44280 yesterday lead me to "*Stereolab's MySpace*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=34575430 which is one of my all time desert-Island acts but then I started wondering how involved these artists are with their MySpace profile pages...did John Cotlrane have one? ("*there's a tribute page*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=33658502 with about 22,000 friends...Gram Parsons doesn't...Remember Adam Ant from back in the 80s? Well "*Adam has a MySpace*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=33658502 with links back to his official site but Kraftwerk only "*has a group*":http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupID=100003676&MyToken=62389e08-3734-4a68-a9c7-a82406ca4f5e with just shy of 500 members and fan page with 750 members while "*Willie Nelson has 94,487 friends*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=12411479 on his profile page...
...the latter seems a bit odd to me for some reason maybe it's because Ryan Adams and the long deceased Johnny Cash are among Willie's list of his "friends"...of late I've been to Rupert Murdoch's connection to the pulse of what's happening in cyberspace a couple of times to check out small bands' music but I can't help but feel that those in charge of my faves' catalogue (like "*the people who handle Cash's catalogue*":http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=21386866 ) are trying to squeeze a little more juice out of their corpses....I work with record companies and all but MySpace still skeeves me out for some inexlicable reason and I have to wonder how much coverage is enough or has the rose tint in my glasses clouded my judgement? Am I being a digital Goody Two-Shoes? Does having a Multiply or LastFM membership contravene on said skeevy-feeling? What's the dealie, yo?
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