Steve Mills - Life, the Universe and the Digital World

THE FUTURE OF MUSIC

I had a thought the other day while driving around listening to MP3’s. I envisioned a future where Supergroups are formed, groups that comprise some of the best or influential musical artists. You might get Chris Cornell singing, and Thurston Moore playing guitar, and Danny Carey from Tool playing drums, and Sting playing bass. And then they organise a tour where they play all of the best songs from any of the really classic rock bands, for instance Led Zeppelin … So they promoter gets all of these guys together, dumps the truckload of money on their doorstep and then they hit the road. 50 dates across the planet, playing stadiums. They come out and crank out Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song, Battle for Evermore etc and the goes on from there. Imagine the excitement and the novelty, imagine the interest.

As the iPod revolution continues, and moves into easily download-able video the music industry is going to have to come up with more ideas like this. Also, as the ideas of new accessible forms of musical expression are used up, and people get sick of the same old, novelty like this will be the way to breath life into the old standards that people love. This is the “mash up” taken to the next level.

So there you are music promoters / managers that read this site. Just get the best there is together, and get them to go out and play the Beatles back catalog, or the best of Hendrix etc.. You have to admit that it is something different.If you hear of anyone who has done this in the past please let me know.

Back in the saddle

Wow, one month between posts. I hang my blogging head in shame.

I have been working way too hard in the last month, trying to get a few projects of the ground and working on too many other things for too many people. Not to be too cryptic, but these involve

• Starting up a environmental rebate company
• Working on some large php sites for the CSIRO
• Graphic design and marketing for another mortgage broker
• Working on the tranistion of IT systems for a large insurance company that has just been bought out.

I think here I can tell you that I haven’t learnt to say NO as effectivly as I should. I took on too much work and so it has been head down, bum up for the past 5 weeks.
This is not how intend to run things around here, so hold tight everyone, there will be some fresh and tasty info coming your way over the next few days..