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RE: Dinner with Al Di Meola
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Mark2
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RE: Dinner with Al Di Meola (in reply to chester)
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Elegant Gypsy is number 12 on all time best selling jazz records. Gold record. I'm pretty sure Al was doing very well selling records, especially considering he wrote most of the material on his records. I'd be surprised if he didn't net at least 1.00 a record or more. At his peak I doubt he was doing a lot other than writing, recording, and gigging. Now it's dinner with Al for 7,500. IMO that is because he's not near the peak of his popularity, and I believe it's in large part because artists have been cheated out of their share of recordings. I don't know anything about Paul Gilbert.... quote:
ORIGINAL: chester quote:
ORIGINAL: Mark2 I'd disagree. Artists toured to promote the record. Tours were often a loss subsidized by record companies. And it wasn't the royalty the musican really cashed in on. That was mostly taken by the record company, it was the publishing income. One hit song, one SOLID hit, and you were set for life. Songwriters still exist, and some of them are still raking it in. Most of today's top hits are written by professional songwriters, there are songs that are written by teams of songwriters. But we're talking Al DiMeola and Paul Gilbert here. They were never writing songs for the radio. They were always touring (or teaching at MI, writing mel bay books, making hot licks videos, writing music for pornos etc). I definitely don't think musicians are making a "ton" touring. Just saying that that's the job, always has been.
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