Anybody out there who is the music business, a part of the RIAA or just know's what's up? I have a simple question - If I pay $10-$20 for a cd or digital album. How much of that exact amount goes to the artist?Leave out the the extended explanations, just give me a straight answer.Thanks,A concerned MOG'r
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"Tom Waits":http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1932046,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1 on songwriting:'Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it. Kinda like a time capsule. Or making a voodoo doll. You gotta wrap it with thread, put a rock inside the head, then use two st...
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I've been on a real Tom Waits buzz of late and all of it is done to just one song. Road to Peace, a song about the Israel-Palestine conflict. I know it might be wrong, but I think it is possibly the grooviest song EVER! If you ignore the lyrics of course. It seems to be coming on a lot in my random, and I can't help but getting into it. Damn its goooood! The lyrics only add to the fact that its...
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It amazes me quite often just how versatile a musician Tom Waits is, and I feel one area where he doesn't get enough credit is his writing of political songs. Green Day got all the props for their political rock with American Idiot, but meanwhile, one song on Real Gone, "The Day After Tomorrow," pretty much trumped every other anti-war song from 204. I just relistened to Orphans, and was remind...
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