"Virtually nobody wakes up one morning and says "you know what? I'm gonna start an industrial band, get real popular and my CD's are gonna go platinum and I'm gonna tour the world"."
In fact, many of them had this idea in mind exactly. Hence why we have so many copy-cat sounds and uninspired drivel flooding the club playlists, especially in the last ten years. There was some illusion of rock-star-dom that bands were convinced they could obtain by dominating the DAC. Unfortunately, attention on the DAC did not always pan out into album sales or dedicated fans. It is a faulty system for measuring success.
"what would people like Bill Leeb, Trent Reznor or Cevin Key do when they heard some new music? If they liked it they would probably buy it, if they didn't they would keep their mouths shut"
Like Xaos mentioned an example, you do not know those artists very well. I recall hearing interviews back in the Pigface days where everyone would sit around talking shit about other bands. Do you think Bill broke away amicably with Skinny Puppy? Trent moved away from Pigface with the other guys full support? It is funny you mention those artists in particular, as they also dislike the direction "industrial" music has headed. Read some interviews and if you get a chance talk to some of them face to face. The only difference between them and people around here is that we post our opinions on Side-Line in order to get some reaction and start a debate. It has always been like this really, and in fact a good bit of criticism can bring a perspective to a band that really thought they could do no wrong. A certain amount of humility is important to the integrity and direction of industrial music.
`michael
