[Fmpro] Dave Joining ASCAP/BMI

[Les Mizzell]

> climate is really my biggest concern b/c South Carolina is 
 > WAY too hot for me!

You're right! I'm in Columbia and ARGH!!! Too damned hot!

Not to mention...

1. The market for original music in South Carolina has gone from "OK", 
to "almost none" over the last 10 years. I made a very good living for 
years scoring TV and radio spots, industrials and documentaries.

Now, it's "Why should we pay you $1000 when we can use this library 
stuff here for (almost) free?"

2. If you mentioned residuals or a per market license for music on a 
commercial, you'd get dropped quicker than hot potatoes. It's just not 
done here. I've got spots that I scored 15 years ago that I *still* hear 
on air from time to time, and I've never gotten a single dime over the 
$500 they paid to start with - and if I had demanded residuals past a 
certain time period, I wouldn't have gotten the original $500 either.

3. If you're from and working in South Carolina, you're not "good 
enough" for a major project. This happened to me a lot. The agency would 
want to use me, but the client would demand "Somebody from South 
Caroina? You're kidding, right? You've got to hire a New York or LA 
Composer for this" - without even listening to what anybody here could do.

This is the deep south! Music from here? Nobody but us bar-b-que eating 
rednecks! We had our minute of fame with Lynyrd Skynyrd! That's all 
anybody remembers. You're guilty by association!

If you're interested in makig a living with music, my best advice to you 
is to **ESCAPE** South Carolina as quickly as you can!!! You'll die a 
slow death here!!


If my wife and I didn't have so many connections and other things going 
on here, we'd be out tomorrow!!!!