🚀 go-pugleaf

David Eduardo wrote:

>
> > I was talking about  the problem of radio boycotting local music. Do you
> think
> > it should?
>
> It doesn't. when something listeners want to hear, it will be played.
> Generally, this will happen simultaneously with the act being signed to a
> label capable of producing, distributing and marketing the music. The reason
> most bar bands stay bar bands is that they are bar bands.

You side stepped the question. Do you think radio should boycott all local
music?

Why wait for great musicians to be signed by the 5 majors (which guarantees it
to sound like everything else they record - and guarantees payment from an indy
promoter in major stations)

There is something missing in your analysis IMO (see below). The idea that
somehow music has to be sanctioned by one of the 5 old men seems absurd to me.
Does every musical program director think that he is limited to only what  the
5 old men pre-select for him to play? Are they that controlled?

And further,

Do you think that there is no musician in Dallas and there has never been a
musician in Dallas that
had talent but wasn't signed to a major?

Also look carefully at the following
Here's a quote about  radio from the radio reporter at the conservative and
business geared
Dallas Morning news.
"In the 6 years I've been covering radio, the prevailing sentiment among people

who've taken the time to call or write is that 'radio sucks."  Al Brumley

This protest is about

1. the end of payola (which I think is illegal and should stop)
see http://www.salon.com and search payola for 6+ articles on the new payola
2. Radio following the license agreements that they freely signed with
the FCC to get their licenses, which included
local support. If not they should loose their licenses.
3. The refusal of local musicians to keep supporting radio that refuses
to support them. Why should they.

Tom Hendricks, musea
http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com
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It is time to stand up for local musicians and end the real boycott
the radio boycott of local music.