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my best to Dave...........we go back a long way and I've known him to always be at the top of his game...

Thanks jai,
Richard is a thoughtful and clear thinker,
I appreciate you letting me tune in to this .

Very well said!

Cool...

Just when I thought this series couldn't get any better. Thank you, Les!

Excellent article, Deane.

I hope the call-out bears fruit. The points you make are all spot-on. I wonder who's going to have the stones to step up and speak out one way or the other.

Interesting article, and a very worrying situation for our composer friends to be in. I hope that things improve somehow. I think the movie business can be so cruel. I have a good friend, an assisatnt director who hasn't worked in years. He gave this profession so much and then became discarded, terrible, just terrrible!

Chris - I share your viewpoints.

I'm an optimist at my core. I'm having a hard time with this whole thing because at certain junctures, it smells, looks, and feels like one group of people drawing adversarial lines in the sand with another group of people. I, too, understand the past. I get all that, and I'm sorry about it all. But, life frickin' goes on.

You have to make a choice as to whether you are going to get up tomorrow, sharpen your pencil, and write better than you ever have before, or if you are simply going to maintain the status quo. For some of us, the choice is clear and there is only one way to go. For others, it just seems easier to throw in the towel and try to relive the past.... See More

For the last couple of days, I've been thinking about that old saying about the definition of insanity. It seems kind of appropriate as we get deeper and deeper into this.

A composer's union would *not* be a cure-all for what's wrong with the music-creation aspect of the multi-media world. I think it would be a fool's errand to consider such an undertaking. And likewise, I don't think anyone believes it's possible to turn back the clock to make the working model revert to the way things were done decades ago.

The ... See Moreexercise now is to consider, ponder, and yes even *argue* over what's possible and what's plausible. And for that, you must be open to the possibility that a composer's union *might* work. If you haven't made that first step, then you're not really part of the conversation.