I think CDs could come in more as it allows people to play a greater range of music and access to the latest sounds - it costs a lot to get an acetate done, it's so easy to burn something. I thought of this today, so it could be that, on that basis, it becomes "cool". If you can sell it to the public that's ultimately the test, isn't it? At the end of the day the wider market decides.
>A lot of the Body and Soul folk are using cds these days: Danny Krivit, if I >remember correctly, does. FWIW, I can only picture myself using something >that has some kind of creative incentive. This Final Scratch, if it is a >straight imitation of yer technics doesn't offer that to me, it only seems >to offer the laborious task of recording thousands of MP3s from records. (My >little brother, on the other hand, has his entire music collection solely on >his hard drive in the first place. It'd perhaps be of more appeal to him.) I >like to think that if someone showed me the creative advantage to it, I'd >have no problem, mind... (like showing the early 60s me the sonic >possibilities of Robert Moog's piano emulator.) Just now I don't see it. And >if I may speculate, there's all too many people working along the obvious >analogy lines: Coldcut's Video mixing stuff - if that isn't just a complete >lack of imagination then surely it's a pretty poor joke.
