aww, y'all are too rough on TL ...

And my brother is the best drummer in the world, so i kinda had to stop reading at that point...;-p

Andie, if your brother is the 2nd best drummer in the world,then the article is important! Its about how liner notes are dissapearing,and without them 3/4 the information of the music is missing.
(Of course I say 2nd best because *I* am the best! )

lol, you win!

I used to read liner notes all the time. Sometimes they were great, other times they didn't say much at all, and other times they were just weird. Regardless, liner notes were a way of getting a deeper connection with the artist as they (for the most part) chose what those notes would say.

However, there were almost always space limitations, which often left me wanting to know even more. Perhaps that was part of the strategy.

That being said, I suppose it would be possible for artists to include digital liner notes with their music. The nice thing is that, being text, they would have a lot more freedom to write as much as they want.

On the other hand, perhaps it was only a minority who ever read them in the first place (I still do when I buy new CDs, which is very rare), so it could be in response to that.

Now when I'm going through YouTube to listen to music, I will go to Wikipedia or Google to learn more about the band. However, this isn't quite the same as liner notes, but it does satisfy the curiosity to some extent.

Rock on!
Michael

The Ultimate Liner notes?
Jethro Tull, Thick As A Brick!

I don't know, but if you know a drummer looking to be in a band...let me know.



We are, as usual, having a heckuva time finding the right drummer.

Rock on!
Michael

Talk about an obscure little niche.....

"Liner notes in Large Print"

I agree with this