Mixed up recording on the site music.One single per year? Whaaat!

Ah yes,most of the songs are full productions in highest quality and some are demo releases/outtakes impromptu recordings with a cassette deck-no engineer nor producer and unmastered.Live stuff mostly.There are just mountains of tape lying around.The one single thing,well.. it takes me a year to do it.Recording in full production is expensive.And there is no halfway on it.I get paid to perform but my recording sales are not happening.Not yet.In terms of an album there is a box set prepared.The concensus here is that the music industry is drifting away from the album concept on the consumer level.Except for collectors of plasticware that is gone forever.In the real sense of what it was.And it was powerful.AOR radio would play album cuts.No more of that from broadcast radio,all you are going to hear is the single.Even broadcast "Classic rock" radio only plays the hit singles.One would think that Jethro Tull only recorded two songs,Locomotive Breath and Aqualung.It's way over you see,what the album format once was.Not for major label acts of course,contracts are written for the delivery of album product.But the indies such as myself can do a tune that is a hit, make some money and carry on.It would be ideal if the hit is something you really like to play because you are going to be playing it a lot.James Taylor is going to do "Fire And Rain" at every concert he does.He doesn't mind that,it is fun to do.That is the bottom line for those of us that entertain.We choose to make a living from what is fun for us to do.And who in their right mind would not do that!Yet in order to do this behind the scene there is a lot of work you have to do.You are scratching and scraping just to get a bit known,to move out of the dump into a better club,And thirty different bands are trying to get booked at the dump!"Lefty and the Boyz"are willing to play for the door and they blast so fucking loud that they drive all of the regs out of the club.And then the club does no more live music.And then the club goes out of business.

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