Bon Jovi: 'Steve Jobs Is Personally Responsible For Killing The Music Business'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Funny...I thought Bon Jovi's shitty albums were personally responsible for killing the music business. Go figure!

:eyes:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/15/bon-jovi-steve-jobs-killing-music_n_835818.html

Bon Jovi: 'Steve Jobs Is Personally Responsible For Killing The Music Business'



You can download Bon Jovi songs on iTunes, but don't expect the band to be too happy about it.

Rocker Jon Bon Jovi, whose band soared to prominence with its 1986 album Slippery When Wet, reminisced in the Sunday Times Magazine about his days as a kid in New Jersey, falling in love with music -- and ripped Apple CEO Steve Jobs for taking that opportunity away from a new generation of listeners.

"Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it," he said (via MSN), thinking back to his record buying days. Then came the less fanciful: the blame.

"God, it was a magical, magical time. I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: 'What happened?' Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business."

[meegbear]

1. I blame Bon Jovi more for killing the music business

[GodlessBiker]

2. And I personally blame Henry Ford for the death of the buggy whip. Damn bastard!

[Auggie]

6. LOL

[GodlessBiker]

12. And hat pins. Who the hell killed them off?!? Oh, and davenports. Damn those couches!

[arcane1]

3. That explains why there are no new albums and never any concerts

oh wait!

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. Bon Jovi = Drama queeen

He does sound like an old man.

[driver8]

5. No, people tired of paying a lot of money for 2 or 3 decent songs on an album killed the business.

Now, we can buy the songs we want without all the shitty filler songs.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" album...

...Rolling Stone ran a piece at the time about how Bon Jovi recruited a group of high school students and fed them Kentucky Fried Chicken while they played back the songs from the upcoming album and asked them to pick their "favorites."

Musicians don't do that...real musicians, anyway. Of course, Jon Fawcett-Majors isn't a real musician anyway. He's just was a lucky guy who had a cousin who ran a recoding studio (Tony Bongiovi).

[JuniperLea]

7. What a dumbass...

It's over, Jon... deal with it and quit blaming others for your career's demise!

[Bluenorthwest]

27. Bon Jovi was one of last year's top grossing concert acts

$210 million gross. Not a big fan myself, but them's the facts.

[JuniperLea]

28. Maybe he needs to work too hard and wants to rely more on album sales?

If he's making bank on concerts, what the heck?

[SharonAnn]

8. I think Napster and others were also involved. Face it, technology changes things.

[Demonaut]

9. I agree, SACD and DVDaudio meant to replace the cd died

shortly after the introduction of the Ipod, fidelity is a low priority for audio meant to be listened to on $5.00 headphones

[Cleita]

10. Huh?

Back in the Jurassic Period or my teenage days, I could go to Music City on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, go into a booth and listen to an LP album BEFORE I bought it. It seems once this option was unavailable, I stopped buying music and just listened to the radio. I don't care for the iTunes format either, but then I get a whole bunch of music stations on my Satellite TV service so I still don't need to buy much in the way of music unless I really like something and I get it from Amazon.

[leveymg]

11. Is Bon Jovi confusing Steve Jobs with Sean Parker, the founder of Napster?

Too many drugs, Bon boy. :crazy:

[Scurrilous]

13. Payback for Hair Bands killing the Ozone layer. n/t

[hlthe2b]

14. well, as much as I admittedly love my ipod, I MISS "record" stores

Only a few short years ago, we had a really large Tower Records store, with different "listening" sections for classical, jazz, world music, etc. It was open 365 days--even on Christmas Day and was a favorite spot for those bored with the "family" post Christmas morning to head. I have to say, that I bought far more music then than I do now, just because it was so fun to "explore"...

I'm not an audiophile snob to the point where the loss of quality between digital and analog LP technology drives me to drink, but I do miss a lot of the former music experience...

Oh well....

[LisaM]

15. I know - with knowledgeable employees....

who could steer you to good stuff. Not that there are really any music stores left - our great store, Silver Platters, is now so stocked with non-music items it's pathetic - but the staff don't know anything. They are nice enough, but they don't know squat about music.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

19. We still have a "brick & mortar" store here, "Rasputin Music"...

...the one in Campbell is a couple of blocks down Bascom from the former Tower Records, which is now a pet food store (!)...

...I admit that I don't miss paying $20 for a CD with one, maybe two, good songs. I've ripped pretty much all of the music I like from CDs I've purchased, and my iTunes Library currently has 22,487 songs (none of them by Bon Jovi).

But every once in a while I'll go to Rasputin, simply for the pleasure of walking around a funky old "record store."

:toast:

[hlthe2b]

21. Yeah... when I started ripping all my CD's

I had this sense that I had to convert every song on the CD--even those I really didn't like. This "archiving" fixation, I guess. Well, that rapidly passed and I am now content to have only a couple of songs, if that is all I really would want to listen to. SO, yes, it is nice to be able to purchase a single song. That, said, i can see why that would drive some singer/songwriters to distraction, if they continued to produce "albums" that were meant to be heard in total.

[arcane1]

23. I still like going there for used CD's n/t

[driver8]

24. I miss them, too. I could spend hours in a record store...

browsing, listening to music, talking to others about music.

I also miss buying albums. Compact discs are cool, but I miss the whole "album experience" -- reading the liner notes, the wonderful art work, playing the album for the first time when it was in pristine condition. One other thing I noticed was that when I listened to records, I could tell you the names of every song on an album because I would read the names as the record played. I never did that with cds.

[rrneck]

16. Said one multi millionaire to the other. Fuck 'em both. nt

[driver8]

18. Right on!! n/t

[msongs]

20. funny how the something for nothing crowd gets mad when people take THEIR stuff nt

[RandySF]

22. What kids are missing

Is the misery of buy a $20 CD for one song and discovering the rest of it is crap.

[Cheap_Trick]

25. Bon Jovi to neighborhood kids:

"GET OFF OF MY LAWN!"

[emulatorloo]

26. LOL - thanks, I needed a good laugh today! n/t

[abqmufc]

29. Picking an album by artwork - 1989 The Stone Roses

Best decision I made in my life was picking up the band's debut album at a Champaign, IL record store. It was solely done for the artwork.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JqLenf8LkDg/TNJ8hvaFp0I/AAAAAAAAA6s/Xo12EL-fdHE/s1600/The+stone+roses+remastered.jpg

[Iggo]

30. Oh. He means the RECORD Industry!

Music is doing just fine.

[mackerel]

31. If it's any consolation Jon, Steve Jobs is dying.

[mackerel]

32. Wanna hear good music

http://www.capradio.org/programs/off-air/2011/03/10/off-air---112---chappy