Reply #152: Lemme jump in here

[timtom]

I more or less agree with the two of you. The trick is that, at one time, artistic verbal creations were delivered orally. If there were any revenue to be generated, it would have to have been generated through fees to come in and listen to the speaker/storyteller. Dylan Thomas reading his own poetry??? How I would have loved to been there.

Technology changed all that. But now we are in a position whereby technology has changed all that again. Public performance. One might say, "But Youtube...." We know that that experience will never equal the in situ experience. No matter how many times I listen to Leon Redbone, nothing will equate with our eye contact as I was smoking a joint while leaning on the proscenium of the stage at the Armadillo in Austin many years ago.

Let's take story-telling, poetry, and music back to the people. Let's change the entertainment/arts model.