[Fmpro] One step further.......scab?

[Chris Alpiar]

A film production is very very different from a rock band les, it isnt
realistic to compare them. We are talking about hundreds of jobs for one
film. Unions in US and UK set up realistic pay scales for the artists and
musicians to be able to expect a decent way of life and persue their art.
That machine has in the past, and hopefully will find a way to in the
future, been a source of legal protection, life benefits, retirement
options, rights that we agreed that every American is deserving of. (Of
course every person of the world should have these but that is a subject for
another thread). These unions are on the brink of destruction, right hand in
hand with all the more evil aspects of the music industry, and if we don't
get involved its all going to be sound design engineers scoring the films
and computers performing

If we ever "just come to terms with the fact. we do NOT run the business" we
most surely have lost comepletely. Go get a job in a factory because its all
over. 

WE MUST, ABSOLUTELY MUST specify and confront real issues, as a group, or be
willing to accept the death of our artform

"If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely
obscure them. If you do not alarm anyone morally, you yourself remain
morally asleep. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an
acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell."

- C. Wright Mills
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Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
Cinematic Composer 
2727 Gaylord Avenue 
Studio C 
Dayton, OH 45419 
310.339.9603 (Los Angeles) 
937-294-0900 (Dayton) 
chris at alpiar.com 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmpro-bounces+chris=alpiar.com at nxport.com 
> [mailto:fmpro-bounces+chris=alpiar.com at nxport.com] On Behalf 
> Of leshurdle
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 5:06 PM
> To: fmpro at nxport.com
> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] One step further.......scab?
> 
> Should European composers and/or songwriters come to America 
> to record or should they only record in their homeland?
> 
> Should bands like U2 play American venues.... 'cos they do 
> they prevent an American band from doing the gig !
> 
> Should Non American musical and theatrical product not be 
> shown in theaters or on TV, 'cos when it is American 
> composers lose out.
> 
> Should we just come to terms with the fact. we do NOT run the 
> business.
> 
> L
> 
> On Sep 8, 2007, at 12:05 PM, leshurdle wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Sep 8, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Chris Alpiar wrote:
> >
> >> However,
> >> they need to get paid the same as US Union players.
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > I know you care not to talk to me these days, but I can't help 
> > wondering where the idea of 'equality' comes from?
> >
> > Can anyone find out if the amount paid to these 
> impoverished musicians 
> > is in comparison to the % paid to US musicians based on local 
> > economics?
> >
> > Maybe they are paid in excess of what US musicians are paid on  a 
> > local scale?
> >
> > Trust me... no one would like to be paid what I get as a 
> tow pilot !!
> >
> > Just all come to terms with the fact... as a gent who is in 
> the know 
> > told Northam & I a few years ago.........  ''''you have no 
> idea what 
> > is coming down the pike and how you are all to be 
> > screwed'''............  why is there no watermarking ;-)
> >
> > If it comes to buyout for life&70 years.. what is a cue 
> worth [not the 
> > entire score] ?
> >
> > $1M??
> >
> > Think very carefully..... and if you are employed, but not as a 
> > composer........ think very very carefully !!
> >
> > Les
> >
> >
> >
> >
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