I found the following pretty useful, albeit its from 2005. Health insurance for an independent contractor is impossible. This country is in a terrible health insurance situation. We have at least 400,000 songwriters affiliated with the three performing rights organizations who have no coverage at all. These are people that we know don’t have health [...]
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Previously, I wrote about the Zero Revenue Music Media Model. For the individual band or musician, they can get by, and likely ever prosper with alternative revenue sources. A few might even strike it rich. The big problem is providing revenue in the chain for the parts who create huge value. The predicted lower value [...]
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@kevinkclee talked about the rise of digital music, and that owning, storing, and listening costs are heading towards zero, thus killing such as a revenue stream. Obviously, those with a vested interest are not going to want to see that happen, but I think its inevitable. In part, being I just read the full transcript [...]
Music was a revenue source of mine for many years, but then chasing semiconductor process issues took more and more time, and something had to give… and the days of being a hired gun were it. During the time I was out of the music scene, many things changed. The whole pay to play thing [...]
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