> In more recent decades, being a session musician for regional or mid-tier bands has stopped providing a living, following the huge consolidation in radio and

> In more recent decades, being a session musician for regional or mid-tier bands has stopped providing a living, following the huge consolidation in radio and music publishing in the 90s and 00s. How is this a problem of recorded music being a thing rather than of mindless consolidation that has affected many, many industries since that time? This is like blaming recent consolidation among publishers on the invention of the printing press.