[Dixielandjazz] Re:was: Simultaneous Appearances And Fraud/ new thread

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/12/03 1:32:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jazz_man at ix.netcom.com writes:

> 
> So, we went to a wedding. I had been out of the music scene
> for about 15 years. The band played "Sept. In The Rain."
> I was intrigued. The Shearing Quintet recording exact.
> I asked the keyboard player "How did you do that"?
> His reply: I sequenced it this morning.
> "Not likely" I thought. I knew nothing of midi nor electronic
> music. Never even heard of Karioke. (Please forgive the spelling).
> =======
> 
Now folks and all you unemployed and underemployed musicians read this post 
very carefully.

Herein lies the demise of Jazz, bands, arrangers, big bands,   who the author 
admits to rehearsing with, Not performing any paying gigs with.

Electronics, and midi have replaced all of us, samples, and editing on this 
fabulous new invention the home computer.

Folks we have finally outsmarted ourselves.

I used to own and try to operate a first class recording studio with 
$500.000.00 worth of sophisticated recording equipment, and woke up one morning and 
found that the technology world had found a way to put the same capability into 
the hands of average consumers for about $500.00.  Now you still had to go to 
a manufacturing company to make records or CDs or mass produced cassettes to 
sell.

Through the blessing of modern technologies we can now do it all on a 
computer in our studio apartment or garage or maybe even in the back of our motor 
home or van if we have a wireless connection.  Record it mix it midi in any thing 
we want, print out charts from anybody's CD and play them back with midi 
instruments and remix them and rerecord them as original arrangements and 
recordings, print the labels, burn the CDs, print the inserts, buy a few plastic jewel 
cases and we have replaced everyone in the chain of making music.

Hell we can even play duets with Louis Armstrong and sell a million copies of 
it through the science of modern technology.  Ain't it nice that musicians 
have gotten so smart.

Now the best marketplace we have for our music is MUSAK or selling a few 
copies to the DJs who are booking all the gigs we used to play and rather than 
hiring live bands they play our CDs and charge as much money as we used to make 
for performing live.

Then to add insult to injury they are now frequently manufacturing and 
selling copies of our CDs as their own favorite songs with their name and pictures 
all over them as if they had anything to do with it.  They book themselves out 
at shopping centers and such while selling the shopping center advertising on 
the radio station in a "package" that includes an in person appearance by the 
DJ at the shopping center or Night club where they brazenly sell these damned 
CDs and pocket the money.

These sophisticated nightclub owners that used to hire you guys now just buy 
advertising and get a DJ to show up at the club and sell CDs of everybody's 
music, they don't have to pay for a band and the punters who listen to the radio 
station are duped into coming out to meet the CELEBRITY RADIO Personality 
like it is the party of the year.  They pay a cover charge to get in and hear the 
same crap they just heard for free all day long on the radio show for free.

Now this is what should be upsetting us.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band and stuff.