Creation is the source of life, while making money is what people do for food, clothing, shelter, necessities, and comfort in some cases, and to exercise their greed in others. They are distinct from one another, and it is my conviction that music should always be made because one loves music, regardless of whether one plans on selling it or not. Selling is the making money part, and artistic expression, creation, is the giving part. Giving people music for free online being so common these days is a good reminder that artistic expression is always a matter of giving, not taking, or selling. ![]() I believe that this was a very healthy instinct on the part of music lovers. When I was a teenager it was very common for people who loved music to insult a recording artist for being, or becoming, a sell-out. Its a shame its become so normal, expected, and acceptable to be one. The word indicated a lack of artistic integrity. Sell-outs is an antiquated term which, when I was a kid, referred to artists who love making money more than they love making music. Recording artists have been “giving” the public music by selling it to them for so long that we now think of sell-outs as dedicated musicians who love their audience so much that they aggressively sell them products, and sell themselves as an image and personality to this audience on a regular basis just as aggresively. If I sell you an object, we do not say that I gave you that object. If I sing my friend a song, it goes from me to her, at no cost. When someone releases music on a label, they are selling it, not giving it. In other words, Zone is the only song which was intended to be on a record. With the exception of Zone, this is all music which was made purely for the sake of making music, rather than for having it released and thereby sold. This music is all free of cost to the public, and can be downloaded or streamed on Bandcamp and Soundcloud. In addition, there is an interpretation of the song Fight For Love from the movie Casa De Mi Padre, recorded one sunny afternoon in November 2013 by Omar Rodriguez and myself, plus Medre, a track recorded in 2008, and a vocal and guitar only version of the song Zone, from my album Enclosure. The version which was online before, under the name Trickfinger, omitted the first 5 minutes of the piece. Furthermore, you will find in these places the full 20 minute version of Sect In Sgt, my all-sample piece, in its entirety. I have also uploaded a 37 minute collection of tunes made between 20 which were all recorded in my main studio during various stages of its development, as well as various stages of my devopment as an engineer. ![]() It is a bunch of weird anti-rock star guitar solos, played mainly on a Mosrite Ventures guitar, and a Yamaha SG, accompanied by an Elektron Machinedrum, excepting one song where I used a Roland TR 707, and another where a 707 was used, but is not in the mix. ![]() At present, I have put up a 19 minute group of 6 songs recorded on 4-track cassette in May 2010, the instrumentation being 3 guitars and one drum machine. My own name has been taken by several people, so one is called and the other is called /jfdirectlyfromjf. I now have a Bandcamp page and a Soundcloud page and have put up a bunch of unreleased music of my past. I've only listened to the Renoise Tracks so far, some of them are also pretty good. ![]() I quite like this track, but a few of them are pretty rough. He set up new Soundcloud and Bandcamp accounts, and added loads of new, previously unreleased music. So, i woke up this morning to find an Email from John Frusciante.
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