Many of us old school types have music going back to when it actually paid.

As I alluded to at the beginning of this thread, my latest album is stillborn. The group member who took over the project was completely out of touch with today's reality — unfortunately, it was easier not to contradict him. The attitude was to fix it after he died. Now that he's gone, the other engineer and I expect to undo much of the last couple years but it still has 0% commercial success. I'll be having a conference call next week to let everyone know the final reality-check and how much it will cost to distribute. They can split the costs with me, distribute their own songs only or abandon it. Most of the songs are covers. Copyright registrations alone will cost $630 — not on my dime, thank you very much. At least in the US, we can register the SR (sound recordings) and the PA (work + publishing) on works we own for the same fee (SRs only on cover tunes).

It's quite possible that the only people who get to hear it will be those attending the wake the band is throwing in less than three weeks.

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