I feel for musicians. Like other skilled trades they saw their market value nearly destroyed by business and tech changes. A tone deaf felon and his label can auto tune some trash that will be heavily promoted to musically ignorant fans. And here in California the musicians still earning a bit at night spots had their incomes destroyed.
Yes...Covid did destroy a lot of venues...and now with all this 15 dollar minimum wage stuff I dont know how it will effect employees such as bartenders...if the bar can't pay that...or HAS to pay it...they will either go out of business OR hire bands for less money than its worth. Bands have been underpaid for years anyway. It will also I believe have a positive effect though also on one end. Those of us who want to be more creative musically will have that option more and more rather than being a human jukebox of the crappy hits we have to repeatedly play over and over. If it isn't worth playing cover songs monetarily then we can truly have our hobby back and play what the hell we want becaue the money isn't there anyway.
I feel for musicians. Like other skilled trades they saw their market value nearly destroyed by business and tech changes. A tone deaf felon and his label can auto tune some trash that will be heavily promoted to musically ignorant fans. And here in California the musicians still earning a bit at night spots had their incomes destroyed.
Yes...Covid did destroy a lot of venues...and now with all this 15 dollar minimum wage stuff I dont know how it will effect employees such as bartenders...if the bar can't pay that...or HAS to pay it...they will either go out of business OR hire bands for less money than its worth. Bands have been underpaid for years anyway. It will also I believe have a positive effect though also on one end. Those of us who want to be more creative musically will have that option more and more rather than being a human jukebox of the crappy hits we have to repeatedly play over and over. If it isn't worth playing cover songs monetarily then we can truly have our hobby back and play what the hell we want becaue the money isn't there anyway.