Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.