critical blah blah.

The opinion that the Grammy Awards is a self-validating celebration of industry success in the commercial marketing of sensationalism and media products to mass-appeal doesn't really need to be iterated since it will influence neither the accessibility and diversity of the music consumer market nor the public's consumer choice in the corporations they support. It is also nothing more than an opinion based on the observation and speculation of myself and possibly a minority of music enthusiasts. I waste little time with the Grammy Awards, but I always read the nominees and winners of the genre category of which I am the most knowledgeable in order to confirm that the opinions of myself and relevant publications in regards to musical accomplishment within that genre are critically amiss. I think that it's really great that the Recording Academy is a charitable organization, as this is a compromise for their useless design in musical achievement. Their attempt at enveloping authority over specific musical genres is like calling an American Major League Baseball team the World Champions after they win the World Series. You can't win a game that you aren't allowed to play in, and the less profitable alternatives (like the olympics) don't garner the prestige or paycheck. Their world is limited to a domain that is controlled by the industry leaders. The Grammy Awards are laudless of nothing but a sensational facade covering a commercial agenda that necessitates dependence on these corporations for media success. The snake has no head.

Music and the Music Industry compose a distorted symbiosis. I came across an article on nydailynews.com that illustrates who is benefitting who.

( A music industry case study. )

Who Made Who? How can artists take control?

I'm bored with this and don't how much of what I've written is even valid.

So on an unrelated note:

GREAT WHITE To Continue Touring With Replacement Guitarist - Feb. 23, 2003

According to the New York Daily News, GREAT WHITE singer Jack Russell is wasting no time in scouting for a replacement for guitarist Ty Longley, who died after a pyrotechnics display got out of control in Rhode Island on Thursday. "I personally would like to express my heartfelt condolences to those families of the loved ones who perished, as well as Ty ... in the tragedy at the Station," Russell said in a web message. "We will continue our tour with a replacement guitarist sometime in the next few days." Russell and an unspecified bandmate were seen catching a flight yesterday out of town, Providence TV stations reported last night.

THANK YOU, RHODE ISLAND!

What would Spinal Tap do?