There are many talented musicians who play music likes blues, jazz, and other (you know, music that musicians play), while rap and hip hop primarily use sampled trax which are manipulated by computers, synths and sequencers with a front man/woman... I do not dispute their talent, but the other musicians in this world receive near-ZERO backing by the music industry. Why?
BMI and ASCAP? You are the destroyers. You go to individual bars and nightclubs to shake down/charge fees to bar owners who hire cover bands to acquire performance royalties for songwriters and performers?!!... Do you realize that many won't pay/hire bands anymore? Do you realize the Beatles, the Who, the Stones, Led Zep started out by playing - hmmm... COVERS? Many of them played the blues - and the Blues performers benefitted DIRECTLY from the exposure. Now - you are forcing owners to hire original bands or else $$... yeah. No wonder the music industry is in the toilet. No wonder musicians are a dying breed
2006-06-22
08:51:43
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