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[Bobolink7736 at aol.com]

Hey, Tom,
     Have you written any books or articles that have been published on all 
these ideas
you have gained from your many years of booking, promoting, employing, 
leading bands
and other musicians?  Or about copyrighting or otherwise protecting one's 
rights to
songs one has composed  and performs?  I'd like to read anything you have 
written on
these subjects--not for myself but for my children who are musicians just 
starting out.  TIA.

     Also, I know that much of what you say about discrimination against 
African-American musicians is certainly true.  The fact is blatant racism keeps 
rearing its
nasty head, threatening to engulf us again in its hatefulness.  While 
musicians have
been less racist than most, the music business has been only slightly less 
racist, if
at all.  Keep fighting racism and racial discrimination as it eats into the 
intriguity of all of us.

Best wishes,

boblynn
bobolink7736 at aol.com