Ray,

i'm going to tell you something that will change everything in your life. QUIT WORRYING ABOUT ANYTHING THE INDUSTRY DOES!There is NOTHING you are ever going to be able to do about it! Trust me on this. It is never going to be what you think it should be. The artists are never going to measure up to what you think they should. We are in a different world and it is NOT going back, and all the ego inflated English people in the world who make whatever their pronouncements on it makes no difference in the world.

Everybody's got to get out of that complaining and whining phase. It doesn't change anything. The music industry at the top is doing just fine, just like all big businesses. And anyone that sits around waiting for them to "see the light" are going to be waiting forever. They're not. They are divested into hundreds and thousands of businesses and if one dies off (The money on songs themselves) they will shift to doing something else (The branding of artists) and they will do JUST FINE.

You can argue that the Internet has done JUST that. It has put millions of people and billions of songs into the pipeline. Music you like and artists you like are out there. It is up to YOU to find them.

But if you are waiting on somebody to arrive and have the revelation to "fix everything' where you or me or anybody is satisfied, you are just wasting your time. COMPLAINING DOES NOTHING AT ALL. NOTHING. NEVER HAS, NEVER WILL.

The things I talk about are in DOING SOMETHING YOU CAN CONTROL. You are gonna have to lose that shoulder chip at some time and work on things you can do something about. The rest is totally out of your control.

MAB