To the editor: In studying Mikael Wooden’s gushing profile of Interscope CEO John Janick (“Why this ‘visionary’ document exec nonetheless believes within the main label,” Jan. 30), with nary a nod to the harm achieved to the music business by huge conglomerates like his, I recalled this quote by music historian Alan Lomax:
“We now have cultural machines so highly effective that one singer can attain all people on this planet. … As soon as that will get began, he will get backed by a lot money and a lot energy that he turns into a monstrous invader from outer area, crushing the life out of all the opposite human prospects.”
Chris Erskine, La Cañada Flintridge
