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Brotherhood of creation and production
Leicester Mercury has a short interview with the two Ians. The bigger one states his view on the alleged upcoming AI armageddon of creativity:
My feeling about anything artistic is the beginnings of it should be organic but the development and production values, that can be technical. We’ve always benefited from advances in technology, whether it’s in the film business or in music.
There are famous names and famous moments in history where you suddenly see great leaps then you see great problems, like 1982, from the moment the CD came out, it was a disaster for about five years on the technical side. Because the engineers had no idea how to make it sound warm, and everyone’s saying, ‘well, it doesn’t sound nearly as good as vinyl’, and it didn’t until they mastered the technique.
But then the production took over, and so you take a c***py idea and you overproduce it, and put the bells and whistles and the fairy dust on it, and it sounded magnificent, but it left you cold inside because there’s nothing organic from which it grew.
He also shares an anecdote about the last time he saw Ozzy (with a pint of vodka — don’t tell Sharon, she’ll kill me — in his hand), while Paicey reminisces meeting with the Japanese PM.
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Isn’t there an election coming up in Britain soon. I reckon Sir Ian has a bit of chance. Let’s face it, he has the gift of the gab, he takes NO prisoners and he has a ‘philosophical’ way of looking at everyday life and much more. However of concern is that he could be exploited, as he enters a new phase in his life as a political celebrity. What would he call his party though? No Laughing in Heaven or Hell Party. He would have to drop the mantra of ‘no politics or religion’. Maybe it isn’t a good idea after all. Better off sticking to the music Ian. Cheers.
July 11th, 2026 at 06:59