Comments on: The Gates are Wide Open, What Now? http://adrianelake.com/2009/08/18/the-gates-are-wide-open-what-now/ Making adorkable music with a computer since forever. Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gordon Hulley http://adrianelake.com/2009/08/18/the-gates-are-wide-open-what-now/#comment-32 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:22:39 +0000 http://adrianelake.com/?p=261#comment-32 I now take some schadenfreud delight in knowing that when I see the latest magazine / Sunday supplement covers featuring the suave fizog of the latest ‘rising star’ or a return of one from yesterday/last decade, I’m not looking at a universally adored/acknowledged/talented super-person from some different planet but simply looking at the face of a working person because some crafty PR department manipulated it into position there.

]]> By: Ian Robinson http://adrianelake.com/2009/08/18/the-gates-are-wide-open-what-now/#comment-31 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:03:47 +0000 http://adrianelake.com/?p=261#comment-31 Some of things that music labels could still do are: manage live tours, get radio airtime (radio is still huge I think), pimp music for advertising, same for movies and TV shows (incidental music). They could also get artists and producers together to ensure better output. In much the same way that authors need a good editor, musicians need a good producer.

But times are definitely changed. They’ll need to adapt or die.

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