My whole experience in the music business has been influenced by watching the “Top Down” music business lose a masterpiece to my horror, and once I could remedy this oversight, we released this valuable LP. As a matter of fact my whole label Beserkley Records was an example of “Bubble Up” music and the corporate interests “Top Down” attempts to take us over. The little label I founded has been approached by every corporate label for a “Top Down” takeover which we resisted (control over our destiny was paramount), afraid of the ”tin ear” (“still birth” Warner Bros. refused to release the band’s recordings) of the original Modern Lovers LP) made it easy to resist the corporate mega bucks. After I witnessed and participated in the recording of the Modern Lovers, I was moved to release this music by mail order after Warner Bros. balked on releasing this brillant LP. Back then, record collectors and music journalists searched for music to consume. The ”Bubble Up” phenomenon seems to be lost, but the “Top Down” approach is still around. I wonder how much gr8 music has been lost to the “Top Down” corporate approach to deciding what music you hear?
THE MUSIC ON BESERKELEY RECORDS WAS BUBBLE UP! NOT THE CORPORATE TOP DOWN MUSIC OF TODAY.
