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Gunnar Sharp
- guitar, keys
Gunnar Sharp
- guitar, keys
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» label: unsigned
» for fans of: Buddy Guy, Perry Farrell, Zeppelin, Zappa, The Animals, Velvet Underground
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We've been told we sound like . . . grating of martini glasses; gay men street fighting; cochlear 350 Chevelle; grunge opera; slapping of wet limbs; Wagner falling down several flights of uncarpeted stairs.
See Gunnar Sharp's blog: Gunnar's Wild Ideas
See Gunnar Sharp's blog: Gunnar's Wild Ideas
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
The Big 4 record labels whine about declining CD sales--good!
P2P'em to death!
Computers are shaking the foundations of the establishment in a way that punk music in the 70s could only dream of.
Musicians--for the first time since vinyl--don't need the Big 4's support.
This generation is part of a revolution, which was mostly handed to them on a silver mouse pad. I'm not even sure they're aware of what's happening or how much things have changed.
GB.com, MySpace, YouTube--as well their music software counterparts, in particular Apple's GarageBand--shifted the paradigm.
Simultaneously, for the first time any PC can be turned into a studio that by comparison makes Abbey Road seem like a Yellow Submarine.
Home PC's are now poised to give us unimagined musical freedoms--analogous to the way the technological advances of the electric guitar in the 50s and 60s gave us Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix and rock-n-roll.
Never have so many people had so much power to make music and to share that music with others.
Ten years ago, we had Pro-Tools. Spend a few thousand dollars and devote your life to learning the technology and whamo! you could make music in your home--that sounded pretty bad.
Then you had to peddle your wares to Warner Bros. and co.
Now for $79, you get iLife, which comes with GarageBand. Seven-year-olds can figure this program out before their morning nap, and buy it with their milk money.
Then they can upload their song to a site like this one and anyone can have a listen. No asshole in a suit there to stop it. Music making is now in the hands of the masses. Distribution is now in the hands of the masses.
Listeners can go on a site like this one and download incredible music, from bands who haven't signed with anyone. (Thanks Wax Sound, I love "Hong Kong 1982!")
The process of music-making just ten years ago was so discouraging that I more or less put down my guitar for what I thought was good. I picked it back when I bought GarageBand/Logic--thanks Steve Jobs.
Now, I make music alone, up in the attic, by lamplight . . . the way one might make pipe bombs, while my baby sleeps.
P2P'em to death!
Computers are shaking the foundations of the establishment in a way that punk music in the 70s could only dream of.
Musicians--for the first time since vinyl--don't need the Big 4's support.
This generation is part of a revolution, which was mostly handed to them on a silver mouse pad. I'm not even sure they're aware of what's happening or how much things have changed.
GB.com, MySpace, YouTube--as well their music software counterparts, in particular Apple's GarageBand--shifted the paradigm.
Simultaneously, for the first time any PC can be turned into a studio that by comparison makes Abbey Road seem like a Yellow Submarine.
Home PC's are now poised to give us unimagined musical freedoms--analogous to the way the technological advances of the electric guitar in the 50s and 60s gave us Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix and rock-n-roll.
Never have so many people had so much power to make music and to share that music with others.
Ten years ago, we had Pro-Tools. Spend a few thousand dollars and devote your life to learning the technology and whamo! you could make music in your home--that sounded pretty bad.
Then you had to peddle your wares to Warner Bros. and co.
Now for $79, you get iLife, which comes with GarageBand. Seven-year-olds can figure this program out before their morning nap, and buy it with their milk money.
Then they can upload their song to a site like this one and anyone can have a listen. No asshole in a suit there to stop it. Music making is now in the hands of the masses. Distribution is now in the hands of the masses.
Listeners can go on a site like this one and download incredible music, from bands who haven't signed with anyone. (Thanks Wax Sound, I love "Hong Kong 1982!")
The process of music-making just ten years ago was so discouraging that I more or less put down my guitar for what I thought was good. I picked it back when I bought GarageBand/Logic--thanks Steve Jobs.
Now, I make music alone, up in the attic, by lamplight . . . the way one might make pipe bombs, while my baby sleeps.
Your influences?
Jane's Add./P. Farrell, 90s Grunge/Zepp/Blind Willie McTell/Pink Floyd/ Velvet Underground/Gus Van Zant/Chuck Palahniuk/Buddy Guy
Favorite spot?
San Francisco and Seattle