BOB'S BANTER

1.   The Jacksons.  Nice family.

2.   Gordian Knot.   Get It!

3.   Paris Hilton sometimes showed alarming glimpses of brilliance. Does that make me a Perv?

4.    James Brown’s mugshot.  Scary!

5.   INTENSITY!.  Music Makers!

6.    Bush going to start another war?  Before November?

7.   Football.  Is Brady now better than Favre!

8.   "Weird" Al Yankovic received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1981.  He also served as valedictorian of his high school at age 16.

9.      Bill Bruford.  Alien!

10.  Did you ever wonder what the WD in WD-40 stands for?  The name was lifted right out chemist Norm Larsen's laboratory notebook.  Way back in 1953, he was trying to concoct an anti-corrosion formula, which worked on the basic principle of displacing water.  On his 40th try, Larsen finally got it right.  Hence, the  name     WD-40.  It literally means Water Displacer, 40th try.

11.   Steve Rose of INTENSITY!. High Hat Lover.

12.    Liquified.  Adj: changed from a solid to a liquid state.

13.Gary Oldman.   Great actor, (pour-fl),  needs the Intense! Music “Toe of the Camel”.

14.   Why I (Bob) think INTENSITY! works….from the words of Robert Fripp.  Fripp perceives the state of the industry this way: "I think two things are happening: One is that the mainstream is becoming increasingly established in the mainstream, for example the acquisition of Polygram by Seagram’s, so you now have a whiskey company in Canada ensconced with something like a quarter of the music industry. So the mainstream is not going away, it’s getting more solid in the middle. And what tends to subvert that is the eruption, mainly supported by technology, of artists outside the mainstream. Mainstream record companies develop in the mainstream — they’re very, very bad outside it. In other words, they’ve a very small focus, and they’re very broad-bound within that small focus.

"And my sense is technology is now enabling a discerning seeker of a particular something to actually find it through the Net. So two things are happening simultaneously: Mainstream record companies are focusing in on the mainstream, and they’re wafting all around."     "As an artist," Fripp explains, "it was no longer possible for me to work for major labels — there was no way to get around this fact of copyright ownership, which I had always understood to be my property. You can make a case for the royalty rates which majors pay. You cannot make a case for record companies owning the phonographic copyrights.”

"So the only alternative at that point is to form an independent record label, which is the last thing any player wishes to do — only necessity will take you to that point. Most young artists say, ‘I’m not interested in doing my own label,’ and I say, ‘Well, I sympathize, because I hate it myself quite substantially.’ But anyone can be their  own record label as long as they can print up at least 10 cassettes and sell them at shows, and then perhaps 500 CDs and sell those at shows."  

Please support INTENSITY!   INTENSITY! …play more events. More silent movies. 

Bob’s Banter  out…