Interesting rave here. File sharing. Hey, you cant put Pandora back in the box. I guess thats why some of the big acts charge 100-to 250 bucks a ticket. If you cant sell records like the old days might as well fuck everyone for the expensive ticket price right? Ok, its NOT all that way but you get my drift.

I think that "sharing" music is way cool. Its like loaning a record to a friend so he or she can dig it before they buy it. OR like taking a record and making a CD out of it. Mix tapes-Cd’s-MP-3’s are all good. It is just this is a dying business. It’s like the movie the Terminator. "It was all good till the machines took over". Yeah, the fucking machines. If you cant play or sing you suck. Bottom line. There is SO much cheating going on it would scare most of you. Yeah, I bought into that shit for awhile myself so *I* am full of shit too but NO more. It’s all real or I will kill myself. I am no longer with my old scene. I will die and would rather play in front of 500 people that dig the music than be a vibe sucking whore that FORGOT that music is an art form not just a fucking business.

You think Motzart ever got an ASCAP check?  ( no personal comparison of course)

As for young kids digging classic rock, well I have 2 kids in there 20’s that LOVE classic rock. Why? Because its fucking GOOD! The music stands up after all the years that have gone by. Machine/ pro tooled driven music is shit and we all know it. Unless you are so high on X that you dont care then whatever..

Even the Monkeys SANG on there records.

All this bullshit about "studio musicians" having no soul is just laughable. You think its EASY to be a studio guy? Do you know just how much "the guys" contrubted to the hit records of your life? It aint all about reading the little dots guys. There was creativity at the highest level with NO paper or notes! We were all co-writers on the hits we made and didnt see the extra $ taste. I remember working for producers that were not even in the ROOM when the music was being created and accepting there Grammy’s etc..  I know there are alot of muso’s on this blog Bob.

I was there and saw alot. Over 1000 records playing every style with the biggest names ever.

The Wrecking Crew deserves a little ego stroke. Those cats were AWESOME!

Hal Blaine was the drummer with every fucking band in the 60’s as were the rest of the guys whom we all look up to. Rememeber the Section?

All the NYC cats? Nashville, London, Munich etc..

Its all going to shit, much like the USA and the world for that matter. We are in tough times. God Bless our guys fighting a war we cant win and the cost of BILLIONS and no end in sight.

I just hada little baby girl, 11 months old. What kind of a world will she inherit? My older kids work and cant make the rent and pay all there bills cause shit is too expensive. I still gotta help out and I love my kids. What do you do? Life is too expensive. Poor Ed McMahon got thrown out of his house cause he got in too deep. When does it end?

I figure fuck it. File share and then I want EVERYONE to work for free no matter what your job is. That levels the playing field.

If musicians and songwriters dont get paid for what they do why the fuck should  anyone else?

Just an old fuck’s 2 cents.

Have a nice day. haha

Luke