Okay the video comment was a bit tongue in cheek, but only a bit...over the
years the only things that ever dramatically seem to effect record sales are
live shows (and then only in that market and only with big acts) and videos.
When I worked at Cargo we saw a HUGE difference with Blink 182 when MTV/The
Box started playing the video to Dammit. Sales went from around 20k to over
200k on that one single. Radio helped for sure, but the video was the
difference. When you start thinking about it, it's really the difference for
a LOT of bands: Smashmouth, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Lit, Chemical Bros,
Prodigy, etc etc. Keep in mind the people on this list are the EXCEPTIONS to
the rules. The early adopters, the cutting edge, etc. You aren't relying on
videos to learn about music, you're out there finding it (and playing
it/writing about it for other people). For a lot of people though videos are
their radio/newsgroup/mailing list/deejay all rolled up into one.
Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
Groove Distribution
http://www.groovedis.com
Your Guide To The Underground
-----Original Message-----
From: Elson Trinidad [mailto:elson@westworld.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 1:16 PM
To: Dirk van den Heuvel; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: FUTURE STATE OF ACID-JAZZ
At 12:04 PM 5/30/00 -0500, Dirk van den Heuvel wrote:
>And hey I just thought of another factor for these guys--how good are their
>videos. It doesn't fit into whether or not they're good musicians, but it
>definitely has an effect on their status as entertainers or as SUCCESSFUL
>musicians. Moby gives good video.
I don't really agree with that. Videos aren't as important these days as
they were back in the '80s (where music videos were everywhere and even MTV
played music videos...what a concept!) I barely see any videos nowadays,
and for most of these electronic folks, 1) they're not even in their own
videos and 2) the video is nothing more than a smart-assed 4-5 minute art
film. Some of them are cool, but it's gotten to be somewhat of a cliche.
I've never even seen a Moby video. Perhaps they are indeed good, but I
don't think it's a requirement.
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