[Fmpro] "if musicians went on strike?" - FMPRO Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8

[Jim Chase]

"There's always Mr. Freebie Undercut waiting in the wings for his  
'big chance.'  We're our own worst enemies"

Vic,
     I suspect Mr. Undercut's business card would contain the credit:

  Freebie Undercut
  Computer Knowledgeable
  Young Orchestra Usurper

;-)  Mr. Freebie Undercut would be the one to take up the slack if  
professional composers would unite and strike.  "Slack" is the  
keyword here; if professional film music composers were to unite and  
strike, producers and directors will get exactly the quality of film  
music they prayed for, and are willing to pay for:  24 track studio,  
with one Roland 808 rhythm track, and three tracks of white kids from  
Compton rapping through over-modulated sm57s.  Now, that's my  
definition of "slack."  (Recording Studio $300/hr.  Roland, $795.   
Coming in under music budget... Priceless!)

     Like you, Vic, I would rather starve than stab (scab?) fellow  
composers in order to sell myself as a composer.  Although my  
composing credits are nowhere near on par with the professional and  
veteran composers on this list -- yourself included -- I feel a  
strong camaraderie.  My allegiance lies firmly with "our own worst  
enemies", the film music composers.

Jim Chase