To the editor: In reading Mikael Wood’s gushing profile of Interscope CEO John Janick (“Why this ‘visionary’ record exec still believes in the major label,” Jan. 30), with nary a nod to the damage done to the music industry by massive conglomerates like his, I recalled this quote by music historian Alan Lomax:
“We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world. … Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities.”
Chris Erskine, La Cañada Flintridge