On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:38:16AM +0100, Andrew Bowden wrote: > > Music: > > Charge for Live performances/concerts > > Charge for physical merchandise > > Musical revenues are not something I know huge amounts, but this seems > to me to be a model which drives the musicians very very hard. To earn > money to live they have to perform - and they'll need to do it a LOT. > But to prepare their next album, they'll need to stop performing because > they'll need to write their album. > > And is there not a finite amount of gigs people will attend? The number > of people who go to a gig a week isn't that high. > > Where does this model leave people like Kate Bush - internationally > regarded and loved, but who hates doing live performances, so doesn't.
But aren't you just looking at the top end of musicians? Even for recording musicians quite a number of them aren't making much (or indeed any) money on their recordings. Artists could also sell recordings themselves presumably signed although this will probably not add much to the value long-term. We could completely go over to a gift culture - there would still be plenty of people who would like to reward artists. -- Andy Leighton => [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
