OFF: Black Sabbath?
Sen. Volstead
antisol at SOFTHOME.NET
Fri Oct 8 15:32:12 EDT 1999
> I remember discussing this sort of issue with several musician friends in
> Cambridge, and we all agreed that given the opportunity to "sell out" and
> become shamefully rich ... we would do so immediately. Then, once filthy
> with lucre, we invest it conservatively (no big houses, cars, boats, and
> coke binges ;) would have plenty of time to arse around doing the kinds of
> music we wanted to since it wouldn't matter if anyone bought our records
> (since we would already be totally wealthy :)
>
> Digusting, isn't it? :) But I'm all in favour of putting my artistic
> integrity on the back burner so that I actually have a chance to wield it
> more effectively in the future.
>
> Mind you, not many artists seem to follow quite that plan ....
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
Bruce Springsteen did just that- not that I like any of his stuff really.
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/
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