#121 | The Man Who Put Art on the Moon: A Conversation with Pink Floyd Saxophonist Scott Page

Yeah, let's talk about that.

Let's talk about the artists.

I know you care deeply about the artists being able to control their art and the way it's financed.

Let's talk a little bit about the importance of that.

I mean, let's put, you know, it's so funny today.

I go back when I was growing up, you know, like 40 years ago playing in clubs, you know, I used to get $50 to $100 for a gig, right? Yeah.

Now, 40 years later, we get maybe $50 to $100 again, but...

We have to bring the audience.

It's even gotten worse.

So the artist has basically truly gotten ripped off and screwed for so many years.

But this is a time right now where the artists get to take back the power, the currency power of their brand and own it because of what's going on in Web3.

The whole world's about to get eaten up by what they call tokens.

And a token at the end of the day, have you heard of NFTs? A lot of people have heard of NFTs.

And unfortunately, it's been a It's that name has gotten beaten up because of, you know, the big hype that went around.

I mean, you had the Bored Ape Yacht Club and these things were selling for a million dollars, a picture of an ape.

Nobody could ever understand why this JPEG could be worth a million dollars.

And it's really more about what they call the smart contract.

The smart contract is actually tied to the blockchain and allows you to put all the rights, roles, permissions, access control into anything, an object.

And because of that, we can.

And then the robot network on the blockchain basically handles all this for you.

You've got new business models that are starting to happen.

And so for me, it's like I believe this is the greatest time in history for the independent artist.

They just don't really realize it yet because they don't understand it.

That's why I try to tell artists today the most important thing you need to do is you need to get understand AI.

You need to understand Web3.