If anyone is interested in the whole KLF story, then there's a brilliant book called: 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds.' By the author John Higgs. It's a very entertaining, often hilarious read, couldn't put it down, devoured the whole thing in less than a day.
At one occasion KLF kept the crowd waiting for them to enter the stage for a really long time. When they finally entered the stage, they just smashed all their gear and " KLF left the building". You could say the crowd was a little disappointed
I really like this post because I loved The Kopyright Liberation Front when I was young and all my friends and family said that I was mad for listening that music in a very loud volume. They listened Queen, Van Halen, with some lucky Depeche Mode... And I am 44 years old and still listening that music.
When I was about 15 I had a Saturday job in a local clothes shop, the owner was a very conservative older bloke who hated anything you could call electronic music, but the manager was in his mid 20's and far cooler. When the owner would go out we'd blast the boom box, with our reasoning being the cool music would get the kids into the shop. One day the manager was telling me about this new LP he'd taped that sampled anything and everything (1987 (What the Fuck is Going On?) ), put the tape in the machine and turned it up. A few minutes later a middle aged woman came in asking us to turn it down and saying this type of music had lead to her son being committed to the local loony bin a few months previous. My manager knew the kid and told me after she'd left that a 3 day amphetamine binge was far more responsible for his strange state of mind than The JAMM's were. Back in those days, this was the first new type of music since Punk that scared and confused our parents. I mean, my dad secretly liked the Stone Roses as they didn't sound that different from Hendrix. But, I can clearly remember playing 808 State's Quadrastate LP and my dad saying it sounded like the machines in the factory where he worked.
i often listened to the machines in a factory i once worked at, one of them made a really awesome breakbeat, never was able to record it as sampling and recording devices werent at the point that they were affordable yet
I read The Manual a few years ago while sitting next to a forgotten-about swimming pool in a neglected corner of a Cuban resort. Just me, The Manual, palm trees, sunset, headphones and that giant, placid 80's pool at my feet . . . I still think about it fondly as possibly the most enjoyable and relaxing two hours of vacation I've ever had. Not only was The Manual far funnier than I'd been expecting, but also shockingly prophetic regarding the transformation of the music biz in the three decades since its release. Last edited: Jul 29, 2016
Some good observations by Bill Drummond from 0:00-9:50. The rest of the video is interesting too, but the concept is a bit more advanced! I've actually wondered about similar issues myself before I came across this video, and one thought I had was performance only music, i.e. never recorded. It's an interesting proposition, but I'm not sure how practical it would be. All I know is recorded music has very little value these days as far as musicians are concerned, except maybe for marketing purposes, so a good place to start would probably be all artists withdrawing their music from streaming services. I applaud Mr Drummond for challenging the future Last edited: Jul 30, 2016
