Everything Counts in Large Cash Amounts

Now i'm not taliking about a certain Ex-Blonde Centre Forward who plays for LFC her, but it seems everyone really does have a price ... especially in music!

I was watching the telly the other night when a mate of mine text me and told me that one of the greatest Rock Front Men of all time – Steve Tyler from Aerosmith - was appearing in place of the great all-powerful Simon Cowell as a judge on ... wait for it ... American Idol! Hahaha, I nearly spat my fucking tea out!

Tyler, as we all know, recently ‘fell off the wagon’ and back into the dark clutches of hard drugs, drink and, of course, mainstream light entertainment television! I don’t know which is worse!!

Anyway, it got me wondering = everyone really does have a price as its plain to see that Tyler is obviously doing it for the money as there is obviously no kudos attached to appearing on some shit television programme ‘judging’ some pathetic spastic on their abilities to sing! Especially by a true Rock Legend

Now, if you add this rather absurd act by Tyler to the other rather absurd acts from Iggy Pop and his annoying latex alter ego puppet in the Swift cover adverts and Biffy Clyro’s allowance for one of their hit songs to be used by some biff from X Factor, its plain to see that financial gain has sadly replaced any form of musical licence or respect that artists used to wish for many many years ago. In all honesty, it makes me feel sick!

I remember reading a biography once about the late great Janis Joplin. In her own scatty way, she was something of a true, original great. She would regularly get lost drinking alone in bars, miss important appointments and gigs, and most precious of all – lose ALL her money somewhere. Now, when I say ALL of her money, I do mean thousands of dollars. But, it was shrugged off, replaced and simply forgotten about as in those days her music was the most important ‘factor’ not how many dollars she had in her bank account .

Can you imagine if someone like Coldplay, Girls Aloud or Take Splat lost thousands of pounds today? There would be a financial version of world war three! The stock markets would go into free fall and shares in the record company who represent the artists in question would fall so low the only way out would be bankruptcy (or thousands of job losses – starting at the bottom, of course)

So, have our ‘great’ artists of today taken more inspiration from out ‘great’ bankers and other spivs who feast on the anxieties of the poor and third world countries instead of the heroes of yester year that actually inspired their ability to take up/play music in the first place?

You bet your ass

As for Tyler, if he was ever offered the part in a film, the way he’s been action lately, I can see him playing an on screen version of Gordon Gekko instead of a washed-up old burnt out rocker

If the (begging) cap fits.............

Mol