Daily Ramblings:
One More Cup Of Coffee ...06/28/2005 08:27:36 am
So this from Reuters:
Counterculture legend Bob Dylan on Monday became the latest musician to sign up with Starbucks Corp. in an exclusive CD deal that follows the runaway success of a Ray Charles album sold by the coffee maker.
That really raises the question of what someone has to do to stop being labeled as part of the counterculture. Let me see ... avoid anti-war protests, raise your family quietly, sing songs about Jesus ... that didn't do it ... maybe it's time to make a deal with Starbucks ...
"Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962," co-released with Sony BMG Custom Marketing Group, will hit Starbucks coffee shops Aug. 30. It features 10 previously unreleased tracks from performances at New York's Gaslight Cafe over four decades ago, including "A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice It's Alright."
Many people, including and especially some fans, will criticize this. Those who don't have access to a local Starbucks might have the best case to make - and for the moment, this deal is limited to the U.S. based stores.
Nevertheless, in a world where technology has effectively pulled the rug out from under the traditional music biz model, I don't think you can knock any artist or record company for trying to do things differently. Aside from the fact that this "Gaslight" gig has already been widely bootlegged, we all know that once it hits the counter with the cappuccino's, it will be out there in the most copy-friendly format ever devised, i.e. digital media.
So, I'll take a "tall," with room for milk, and one of them there folk/protest CDs.
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