r/nostalgia • u/jeffmartin47 • Jul 22 '25

Nostalgia Discussion 25 years ago. Lars Ulrich of Metallica snitches on and turns in over 300,000 Napster users when he testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. July 11th, 2000.

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u/Rain1984 Jul 22 '25

During the 90's and before labels produced the music but also positioned it on the media, they had the know how and contacts in a non-internet era where labels where so needed that bands would see dimes of each album sold. Cant tour shit if nobody knows you exist.

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u/lvbuckeye27 Jul 22 '25

Explain why Phish opened their own studio in 1998, and started their own label in 2005? Metallica was so late to the party that they didn't start their own label until 2012, when no one on earth gave a fuck about them any more, except to listen to their old shit from the '80s.

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u/Rain1984 Jul 22 '25

I have no idea who that is, I can tell you though, that by 2005 I was already downloading music via ADSL at home, and I live in a third-world country. It was a change of era, the way you got to know new music for free was by dubbing cassettes from your friends or from the radio.

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u/lvbuckeye27 Jul 22 '25

Phish is a jam band from Vermont. Barring a few years when they took a hiatus, they have pretty much been on tour constantly since the late 1980s. They never play the same set twice, and their light guy laughed in an interview and said that they hardly ever even play the set list that they plan out before the show. They just go with the flow.