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© APJon Bon JoviJon Bon Jovi slams Steve Jobs for 'killing' music
March 14, 2011, 3:41 PM EST
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Jon Bon Jovi has taken aim at Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, accusing him of "killing" the music industry with iTunes.

The rocker is saddened that the "magical" experience of buying records in a store is disappearing, brick-and-mortars stores being eroded in part due to iTunes' success.


Bon Jovi tells The Sunday Times Magazine, "Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it."


"God, it was a magical, magical time," he continues, "I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: 'What happened?' Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business."

If Jobs hadn't done it. someone else would have. Technological advances always sem to further remove us from those little things we so enjoyed when we were younger - going to the music store, going out to the arcade, roller/ice skating rinks, movie theaters, theaters for plays, when I was a kid, we acually had this old grocery store that someone refurbished into a HUGE bunch of racing tracks, with all these little race cars you could control with levers & such. They weren't RC cars, though, the power came from the track, like an old train set. It was way cool, & not very expensive, unless you started buying your own cars...

The more we take stuff out of the public realm, & put it immediately into the home through the web, the less we interact, & the less likely we are to be involved in COMMUNITY.

I know I spend a lot more time with my o/l community than I do with real ppl in my area, cuz of $ constraints these days. It's a helluva life, ain't it?

some tru werds there Philbydoode

NO.

Bon Jovi ??

Hell if anyone killed music ... it was him ...

Steve Jobs? I thought it was crappy music killing the industry. Then again, the whole economy isn't doing so well. So, buying music is sometimes a low priority. But, I agree with Jon about a loss of an experience when people only listen to files.

I'm a firm believer that there is simply an over-load of information pounding us. I don't think homo sapiens is at an advanced enough stage in our evolution to be able to handle this overload. I can't imagine at 17 the unbearable info bombardment young people are exposed to today. I don't think we can handle it. Literally. That's one of the reasons I fish. To decompress. Part of the overload is the staggering amount of music available. So many genres, so many ways to consume it, in advertising, in every TV and movie, on every commercial, I-tunes, Youtube, the countless internet radio stations, MTV, VH1, it's enough to drive me insane sometimes. While participating in the Battle of the Bands (which we won of course) I had to vacate the place numerous times. Nine bands, including us, nine different genres, all too loud (probably including us), most NOT following a melodic progression, lyrics full of profanity (NOT including us), as much as I love playing music I have to take a break. I agree that the old days were better. Buying an album was a pleasure. Before you even listened to the album you were (sometimes) amazed by the pictures, loved (sometimes) to look at the back cover to see what songs were on there, who wrote them, etc. Some albums had posters inside. And then the analog recordings had a certain richness of sound that is lacking on the sterile CD recording technology. You spent more time with an album. It was a sociological happening. I went to numerous parties where people just sat around and played albums. We didn't spend all of our time isolated listening to the albums alone. It was a sociological event. Todays musical technology lends itself to becoming isolated. People are supposed to be with people more than they are today IMO....

Bon Jovi ??

Hell if anyone killed music ... it was him ...

Now he's a political shill for big brother.

I don't think iTunes killed music. $.99 a song is basically the price music has always been.

File sharing (pirating) is a problem but that's nothing new.

The way music is purchased and consumed has changed, as have most aspects of life. The past was great but I wouldn't go back.

Music is just as much alive as it always has been.

Adapt or die.

He means KILLED HIS WALLET.

In the old days you could clean your smoke on the gatefold covers

Oh shut up! Bon Jovi's lucky they got two more hits that kept them from being a one hit wonder. If anything, iTunes saved me from buying crappy albums with only one good song on it. If it did anything it made these musicians get off their ass and write some decent tunes.

You guys remember, when you go to the music store and spend that $5 you saved up all week to get your favorite band's album and there's like two songs you can stand to listen to and the rest was shitty jam sessions (Rolling Stones, anyone?)

Chaeya

Bon Jovi ??

Hell if anyone killed music ... it was him ...

Dead or alive is the only song that saves this guy IMO.

I will listen to a Bon Jovi Song before any Rap song. So he does have that going for him.