Part 5-welcome to the machine ...

The band Pink Floyd is a fine place to start when discussing the music business in general. Doubles exist, in this case we have employed the more complex concept of the "surrogate band", and it is implied in the "wall" that there is an integral need for such an entity to exist in the entertainment industry; not everyone in a band has eternal good health, allowing them full participation in all of the required band member duties. Someone inevitably can't make it to the show to play. Drugs for Floyed, are implied to have played a major role in deeming this double band concept necessary. High on heroin, or in a rehab detoxing, you don't feel well enough to write songs, reherse songs, or going photo shoots/ autographs. However in most respects the record company owns you and your likeness in respect to the band and the fragility of your fame( your public image). This precisely is the price of fame, you can be sued for breaking the contract and using your fame in a way that is outside of the signed contract, you must not tarnish your image unless it is the how you are being marketed. This is how you "sell your soul for rock n'roll, literaly. To ensure the huge investment record companies spend on you. Remember the British government at the time of the beatles owned 75% of the totality of the recording industry in England, and a majority of the stock in radio or radio technology .Big business. The music industry didn't happen by accident , it was calculated and heavily promoted to be what we have now in 2009, remember it isn't a need like food and shelter.in appearance the image of modern music is differant than before beatle era of music. The industry exploded in popularity as a weapon used by the anti war counter culture youth movement. Finally spurred into existence by the killing of Kennedy . Being that such an emotional tragedy leaves people to suggestive programming, to fill the void left after the violence. Anti-government because people lost trust in them and put their trust and love into rock stars the new politicians. Before sgt.peppers the music industry sold singles; A-sides and B-sides , many of which were re-recordings of previous hits. Then came the album, a completion so to speak of the initial dream of the music industries master plot, the whole industry matured and doubled in size. It went from war time radio to being one of the largest most lucrative businesses on the planet , especially due to it's non essential nature. The industry via radio and tv aims to make the album irristible urge to own and integrate with this "new" album.
Meanwhile we spend money we don't have, unaware that it is loaded with subliminal information as well as full of overt right in your face suggestions about what's real. If no-one believes in the music it will fall apart. It's propoganda to say music will save the world, people save the world not music. Music is isolation and confusion , we consume beer at shows not enlightenment. We give these people our hard earned money, our love and devotion. So now there is 24 hours of music, a constant barrage of sound and seemingly new things to keep the attention on media and away from creating and thinking your own thoughts.
The new music we create and push as the "new beat" is nowadays mostly rude, dark and "satanic"; and each band is trying to one-up each other in morbidity. Otherwise we just re-hash the oldies over and over again. Almost like were trapped, and it degrades all the while it tries to stay the same, this illusion hoisted over our beings. A vision so complete it supercedes the the very idea of any other attempt at quantifying another type /kind of reality, trapped in a "tunnel vision", created by mass hip-gnosis( the group solidifies "like concrete"; the idea that other people think that it's happening to them, assures us that it's happening to them , assures us that it must be happening fo "real".instead of awakening to a false image of the passion play we call music. ....
The machine is the mechanism by which we are willful participants in supporting the present civilisation in which we live , in an imaginary playground that seperates us from true wisdom. We should live in the moment, creating all we need as we need it out of love and the simple urgency of the moment, try it some time. Because, rich or poor , happy or sad we all die the same... Alone, confused, without any of the things that you acquired in your life... Maybe even the wisdom we accumulate goes away in the end ...is that so bad? A real rest for your tired being... A chance to reflect and decide...