On 10/18/2010 3:16 PM, Angelo wrote:
Does anybody really want to steal Kiss' music??
Not the point. Gene Simmons has every right to try to protect the business he is in and to spread that word to his fellow musicians in the hope that they can benefit from those words. Personally, I think the musicians have been (stupidly) silent about it for far too long.
Most of the piracy of music is of the current teen musical heartthrobs...not
old has-been jazz players.
I'm not so sure about that. It seems to me that the entirety of the music business, throughout every genre, has been hijacked by thieves.
I don't see Puff Daddy, or Jay-Z going around in rags and driving Pintos...
And they don't see you driving around in a new Jag. So what? I already made the comment that these guys are some of the few non-fools left in the business, and that is sad, considering they aren't even musicians.
Don't most studio musicians get paid per session? So it wouldn't really
matter to them if the CD sold ten or ten million copies.
This whole problem has "pin action". As it gets less and less rewarding (or even possible) to make and promote recordings, every person in the industry is affected. You are a smart guy, Angelo - how is it you don't see that?
Has anyone on this list written a top-ten tune and hasn't been sufficiently
rewarded?
Again, not the point, but Dave has defended his publishing company right into the ground. Is that enough for you?
My point is that it's the large corporations, the same ones who have
marketed good music out of the picture, who are "suffering" because of
piracy - and over-priced product. $20 for a Kiss cd??? Gag!
Your point is off target. You're just too cheap to buy records.
I would like someone to explain to me how all this piracy is affecting the
average musician, who by the way, is probably not paying composers for the
right to play their tunes on gigs...
It's the music establishments who pay for the music played in their clubs. Or at least that's what it USED to be. Everybody made a buck, everybody was happy. Angelo, I know that you are (or were?) a school teacher. You had a Union to defend you every step of the way, and without it you would have made around $6000 per year, and without any benefits forever. If the Social Studies teacher is treated unfairly, the Phys Ed teacher is right there to stand on that picket line and defend her.
For you, of all people, to make these comments is callous and hypocritical.
"He who lives by the sword, etc..."
Exactly.
I don't sound like it right now, but I really do like you,
Bobby
