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The recent popularity of good bands.
grrraham:
Cult of the artist thing that's built up over the last century?
How many producers were there more than a century ago?
How much recorded music was there?
Yes, producers have really become a lot less popular than they were in the 1800s.
Inlander:
I compared producers to editors (for writing) on several occasions in my post. Immediately after the "cult of the artist" comment I wrote "producers, editors, whoever" - which I had hoped would make it fairly clear that at that particular moment I was talking about anybody in any field of art who has a roughly analogous role to a producer or editor - i.e., is not the artist but who seeks to help the artist.
-sam:
I do think it's fair to say that over the past 40-50 years there have been music producers whose fame has outstripped the artists they produce. Phil Spector immediately jumps to mind. And certainly over the past decade or so you've seen that increase, especially in hip hop where who produced a song will often tell you more about the song than the rapper performing the song, people like Dre, Timbaland, Neptunes, Puffy, yadda, yadda, yadda.
-sam
Kai:
*cough* Mike Patton *cough*
but I guess that's not fair, since Mike Patton rules.
grrraham:
And let us not underestimate the impact of the esteemed Mr. George Zimmer.
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