Originally Posted by Guitarhacker
The state of the music business is total crap. ... getting paid $100 a week with a couple of number one hits making your business managers wealthy while you're staying in cheap hotels and eating beenie weenies out of the can with plastic spoons.

Reminds me of the movie One Trick Pony .. Paul Simon probably made more off of SNL than some of his later albums .. which is sad, because some of them were pretty good albums

If anyone likes the old studio guys like Eric Gayle, Richard Tee, Steve Gadd, Tony Levin etc. .. it's an interesting watch with good music

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081280/

It ain't for everyone, but being a musician makes it much more relatable.

.. I'm going to continue on here, but feel free to ignore, as what follows is all a hunch .. no facts

I think the above movie was Paul's way of expressing frustration and making his own movie to complain .. was it critically acclaimed? No. But his point of writing all of this and going thru the effort is pretty clear.
Shortly after he continued to push it with the recording companies and did the video with Chevy Chase on 'You can call me Al' tune .. kinda rubbing their nose in it.
About the same time Chevy Chase made a solo album (pretty obscure) featuring parodies of Rappers Delight and I shot the sheriff, it was a pretty funny album at the time, but he used all studio musicians to create new versions (avoiding using previous recordings) .. and I think he joined in thumbing it to the recording companies

Joe Pesci kind of the did same thing on his Vincent Laguardia Gambini album .. took a lot of 'old' school' type stuff and recreated it with his own band .. again it was funny, but this one requires more tolerance of language/approach to appreciate .. if you know Pesci, you can imagine

There have been people who tried to express the frustration at the situation, with their own money (which makes commercial success very unlikely) .. but previous artists have done it. I wish more had supported them back then, just for the effort.

That's why I said earlier that Paul probably made more off of SNL than a couple of his later albums; he was clearly frustrated

Last edited by rharv; 03/12/24 04:42 PM.
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