The Bass Geek

According to this article, the last major label holdout is renouncing digital rights management and will soon offer at least a portion of their catalog without encumbrance. Which is pretty damn cool, as it allows consumers to move their files to devices and back without hindrance. My only question at this point is whether or not these files will be available to all download services. Amazon is a natural choice, but will they allow these files to be sold through iTunes or eMusic as well? One would think that it makes sense to be distributed as much as possible in order to get the maximum amount of customers, but the Internet means you don’t have to drive to a store to get it - you can just browse to the next site. I can see the labels trying to set up their own site to maximize their profits in addition to using Amazon to try and extract Apple from their top spot.

Meanwhile, Tunecore gets your songs on these services and more without the need for a label. Something to think about . . .

Not that I’m relying on well-researched facts here, but I’m fairly sure Mike Huckabee is the first bassist ever to win a presidential primary probably the first Republican bassist to win a presidential primary, barring Nixon’s jamming with Moby Grape or something. While sites like Jossip may mock this fact, I hereby submit that a bassist carries many traits that would benefit a leader and a country:

• Ability to lay solid foundation for his group
• Bringing together disparate elements to form a cohesive whole
• Define the issues (or chords, as necessary) that the group must deal with

In theory, a bassist would make a fine president. In this particular case, there’s all that other stuff Huckabee represents that makes me disinclined to vote for him. But the trend is set, the die is cast, and I fully support a Bootsy/Wooten ticket in 2012. It’s not too early to start campaigning for the next election, is it?

EDIT: Screwed the pooch on this one - a friend of mine reminded me that John Kerry was a bassist as well. I stand humbly and regretfully corrected.