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'I was paid £27 for the saxophone performance on Gerry Rafferty's “Baker St.”
- flyGuyOnTheSly 8y agoSo what? I got paid $0.05 per paper I delivered as a child... and the newspaper company charged $10,000.00 for a full page advertisement... I'm not complaining. Business is never fair. It's competitive.
- heldrida 8y agoThat's not the same, takes years and talent to play a saxophone. I'd definitely pay him better if he was featured in one of my tracks and I kept getting that sort of royalties a year. It's all a matter of respect for the art and not simply handing pizza flyers, as some people may think. He also said that the cheque bounce anyway, so he wasn't paid, plus "If I had received pots of money, I wouldn't have known what to do. It might have destroyed me." To complete, he played a tribute to the guy who died. Hopefully you'll hand some flyers out when your ex boss dies too right.
- ZeroGravitas 8y agoThough in context, since Rafferty is one of the prototypical rich ex-rock star, burnt out, alcoholic recluses, that may well be interpreted as a pointed insult. Similarly calling your tribute to a dead person "forgiveness" is a bit ambivalent.
- tim333 8y agoMy current startup idea is to fix that for this sort of thing. Will report back when I've cracked it.
- ZeroGravitas 8y agoThe rules around who gets copyright and royalties is a bit abitrary in many fields, so I have some sympathy, on the other hand I like the quote from famous session guitarist Tommy Tedesco on this topic (can't locate the quote so paraphrasing from memory): "I never gave my fee back if the song flopped either"
- sunstone 8y agoThere's a human sentiment, carried over from the plains of Africa, that compensation should be decided by percentage (a fair share) and not by a fixed amount. It's been the cause of bad feelings ever since.