Jim,

You always come on here telling me how wrong I am. I am not the one who says any of this stuff. I work with people from the UK, From Scotland, from Ireland, I have had artists with record deals, publishers, people from that world that tell ME what I say here.

The reason I know this is because for years many people have talked about trying to get me to come over there. But they say that you have to come over one time to set things up because no one gets paid. They don't have a booking agency or central clearning house that books anything.

Now maybe they are wrong. Could be. But there have been dozens and dozens over many years that have said the same things. So you might be one of the few getting paid. You might be the one who is wrong. I have heard one thing from you, and many other things from many other people that say the exact opposite of what you say.

So as usual we dissagree. I don't plan on making the trip. It is simply information passed on to me by other people who have been there and what they go through. I would tend to belive that you have been doing it a long time and have earned a different wage and different respect level that many people who may have come in over the past few years.

Like everything, it is a different world for people starting out now than it was 10-15-20 years ago. The truth is probably somewhere in between. There are people of your stature that have established a career over many years. There are others who have come through in the past 10 or so years that have a totally different environment than you have.

The majority of people I deal with, leave their home countries or cities because they have run out of options where they live. That is why Nashville has as many newcomers as we do.

MAB

Last edited by Marc Barnette; 08/18/11 09:37 PM.