[boc-l] Good article about the reality of the music business for senior bands like BOC

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, EMF via boc-l wrote:

> Featuring Eric Bloom.  An perhaps a brief hope for future music...
>
> http://www.ocweekly.com/music/blue-oyster-cults-eric-bloom-is-a-road-warrior-but-says-albums-dont-pay-8256912

 	Thanks for posting that, it's actually quite encouraging in a grim 
way. The economics of it make sense, though there's a third way there 
where a good new song might find a public via the streaming and Internet 
distributions of which they seem so wary. But I would actually like to see 
this band do something else before they quit. I should also go see them 
again but they seem to have given up on touring in the UK, just doing 
festivals now. But people I know who've seen them there have given better 
reports than I'd have expected.

 	I am so behind with it all, though. I only found out there was new 
Hawkwind just after the tour finished this May and I still haven't got it. 
Not because I don't care, just because I'm buying music in dribs and drabs 
from Discogs.com now and so don't see the kind of advertising to remind me 
that I used to. And of course, there was no mention of it here... But new 
BOC would also be good, as ever. I do play CotHM every now and then, 
mainly for 'Dance on Stilts' and 'Good to Be Hungry'. It means kind of 
tuning out the rest, of course... Yours all,
 					     Jonathan


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