{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Dead Kennedys: Safe Harbors, Cheap Cotton & when Google bought YouTube","description":"\u201cPeople need to look at the Internet as a plantation sharecropper system - Yeah, you got your cotton really cheap but is that how you want society to go forward?\u201d Episode 012: East Bay Ray -  Safe Harbors and Cheap Cotton.  From its infancy in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1970s to today, the enduring legacy of the Dead Kennedys, is due in no small part to its founding member, East Bay Ray.  Ray\u2019s Music, The Oakland Tribune cited ray as penning, \u201csome of the most recognizable and memorable guitar riffs to emerge from the initial West Coast punk movement\u201d, and Ray\u2019s drive have kept the band alive and relevant for more than three decades.   So how does a self described, \u201cmiddle class band\u201d, one who managed to survive, Napster, The PMRC, and the wrath of local sheriffs survive in age of the internet?  It\u2019s not easy.  As someone who considers himself a modern, \u201cRenaissance Man\u2026 someone who thinks with both sides of his brain\u201d, Ray is worried about the future of music.  Since Google purchased YouTube, Ray argues, he has seen local artists in the Bay area\u2019s, \u201cincome cut by half.\u201d  He\u2019s seen the Dead Kennedy\u2019s music, - music he wrote, owns and preformed - misused and abused on YouTube; \u201dOur song, \u2018holiday in Cambodia,\u2019 there, a video of just our DK logo and our song playing, and it has I think 14 million \u201cviews and that's money for Google is not money for dead Kennedy\u2019s.\u201d   As for the future?  He doesn\u2019t see much hope for another band like the Dead Kennedy\u2019s to break through the noise, \u201cThere will be music, but it will be blander - because you need an audience 11 times bigger.\u201d And thanks to the fact that some of the internet giants of the world hide behind the nation\u2019s \u201cSafe Harbor\u201d laws, there isn\u2019t much money there for the musicians in any case. \u201cPeople need to look at the Internet as a plantation sharecropper system - Yeah, you got your cotton really cheap but is that how you want society to go forward?\u201d Its a fascinating look at the past, present and future of Music, through the eyes of one of the music industry giants.  ","author_name":"21khz: The Art of Money In Music","author_url":"http:\/\/www.21khz.com","html":"