Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!UTCVM!JEFF From: JEFF@UTCVM.BITNET (Jeffrey R Kell) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.emusic-l Subject: RE: Sheffield Drum Record Message-ID: <900221.160404.EST.JEFF@UTCVM> Date: 21 Feb 90 21:04:04 GMT Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Organization: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Lines: 14 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 21 Feb 90 12:54:00 EST from On Wed, 21 Feb 90 12:54:00 EST b.klassen said: >BTW did anybody happen to catch the articles in the AFM rag flaming McGill for >producing their CD sample source set. They claimed this would cost scores of >musicians' jobs, and they all but black-listed the musicians who "performed" >for the sampling process. I don't know how you others feel, but I was rather >amused by how intimidated they are by technology ... Our local union (when I was in it :-) ) frowned on just plain synthesizers (and we're talking 1970s era mono-synth days). Likewise they hated string machines, mellotrons, drum machines, etc. A solo guitarist/singer (lounge act style) could use a drum machine -- but had to charge the client as if the drum machine were another musician -- and had to pay it's work dues! /Jeff/