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Henry Rollins in February 2010 … YES!

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | Music, Personal, event | 1 Comment

2 years ago (well almost) I went to see Henry Rollins, and even blogged about it.

He is and has been since the 80’s a true source of inspiration for me. Many times I’ve sung his songs in my head or screamed them out load just to ‘recover’ myself. I can’t say I agree to everything he says. Far from it, but his energy and commitment. Wow. If you’re in Gothenburg or somewhere else and have a chance to see Henry. GO SEE HIM!! … think he’s got more muscles on one of his arms than I have in total.

There are of course other people that have meant a lot to me. Tom Petty, Will Oldham, Richard Dawkins, Suicidal Tendencies to name but a few … more on that some fine day.

Blind faith is good

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | Music | No Comments

Contrary to what most people seem to believe about me, I think that Blind Faith actually is a good thing. Time has shown that the results stands out. This is true if we look at the band with the name Blind Faith. I can really recommend Blind Faith’s first (and self titled) album. For more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_faith

Swedish journalist Daniel Levin about illegal file sharing

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 | Music | No Comments

Daniel Levin talks about illegal filesharing in the Swedish newspaper GP (Swedish).

Daniel thinks we will see an end to the “piracy” and gives rather good arguments to support that. He ends the article with a little note on the new services, web based services, where you (the user) subscribe or by some other means pay for the content, which is good. .. until you do some more thinking.

Those services, again, put the control of the media in the hands of the middle man. Not in the hands of the “creator” or the user. When I buy music (yes, I do buy music!!!) I want to be in control. I want to be able to listen to the music I paid for in my portable ogg player, without being connected to the internet. Furthermore, using services where you use clients under a proprietary license you’re not only lacking control of the content but you’re also not in control of the software itself. What does the software do, apart from playing music? Does it spy on you? Does it send information about what you’re listening to to some central place somewhere?

…. I can see one good solution to this. One that benefits the artists and the users. If the artists themselves release their music under a free license in a free format and let people pay if they want. … and go out and play live in front of an audience.