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Default They don't make it like they used to ...

Bob Olhsson wrote:
Recording is cheaper but my point is that where people got really good was playing on stage and doing that has become unaffordable for most.


Right, that is the thing. There used to be plenty of venues for people to
make good money while practicing to better their craft. Everything from pit
orchestras to bar bands provided opportunity and paid a living wage.

The article was about pop musicians not seeming as good as they once were and my point is that there is a good reason for people to observe that.


That's only part of the problem. When I started out, we had a lot of
well-paying recording gigs for things like in-store muzak, and even
Army training films had composers, arrangers, and a small orchestra
on the payroll. That's gone.

But also when I started out, we had a whole lot of European musicians who
had come here as refugees before or after WWII, who were very seriously
trained in an environment that never did exist in this country. Those
people have mostly died off.

But it's still pretty amazing to work with some of the eastern European
orchestras. You sit down and hand them charts and they play it all right
the first time and then everyone goes home. This does not happen in the
pop world.
--scott
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