> I can find higher quality music being given away by the artist > for free than its possible to find in all the archives of major > labels (well, ok Hendrix is major label, but look, they assassinated > him). Hendrix is actually a great example. Far from unknown and then 'discovered', as most people would have it, he was playing live for years but no-one in the industry would give him a break. It took an outsider (and a musician, not a label executive) to recognise his talent, and introduce him to other UK-based musicians. It was on their insistence that he got the gig at Monterrey in 1967, which I think was his first big break in the US. As for assassinated, I think it would be fairer to say that they didn't look after him very well. He actually died due to the combination of sleeping tablets and alcohol, shortly after playing a storming set in a field just outside our village to 600,000 people. He's kind of a religious figure around here... Cheers Daniel
