SONGWRITERS ATTENTION!: New Royalty rate for streaming is a JOKE! We need to DECERTIFY the joke known as the musicians union, and go on a worldwide strike! TOTAL MUSICAL EMBARGO! F.U PAY ME!!!

Well............whooopdef***king doooooo!

Let's all make like Jagger and Bowie and do some homoerotic-paisley-styling dancing in the streets!

Guess what my fellow songwriters!

The Copywriter board has ruled to increase our mechanical royalty rate (Streaming) from 10% to 15

OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS!

This contemptible human hemeroids aren't satisfied with giving it to us "deliverance" style (Go watch the movie if you don't get the reference, and if you do, then just go ahead and cancel any camping plans you've made)

They want to make us squeal like a pig while they're at it!

And let me tell you, I"M SQUEALING!

WEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Good god, this is just for the writers share, so if you're signed to a label (and 90% of my catalog was released under a record deal with a label) then 50% comes off the top to whoever owns the master recording (Whoever paid to have the song recorded owns the masters) so no were down to 15% of 50%

Which is 7.5 %!

And we won't even get there for FIVE YEARS!

Here's what I don't understand....

When I license a song, if I wrote 100% then I get 100% of the writers share (50%)

If I own the masters then I get the synch fee and the master fee. 50% + 50% = 100%

I've licensed countless original songs to TV and film, going back to my very first composing gig, writing a cabaret song for HIGHLANDER "The series" when I was 17, since then I've licensed tunes to major network shows, a Quinten Tarintino film (No it wasn't pulp fiction you a$$) serval other major films, Composed original cues for COUNTLESS reality shows (I'm taking hundreds, if not into the thousands, and I'm only counting the stuff that got USED) did a good portion of SPIKE TV's new line-up for last season, blah blah.....put it this way, I've been around the block.....or rather, I've paddled around the lake in my canoe (Serriously watch the movie)

I've been screwed every which way you can take it, but THIS???

In case the problem is registering with you let me break it down like this....If we, the songwriters are currently getting 10% of 50% (7.5%)

THEN WHO THE HELL IS TAKING THE OTHER 92.5%!!!!!!

PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T WRITE THE F**G SONG! THAT'S WHO!

So, now they tell us were going to get another 1% a year!??!?!? OVER 5 years?!?!?!?!?!

WEEEEEEEEE!!!!! (Movie, watch it....but don't stream it or whoever did the music won't get PAID!)

Seriously, I know the business is a joke right now, you have guys in big bands RETIRING because they can't make enough money to feed their family's,

The library business has moved on from composers to "stem kits" where the editor can now piece together his own cue using parts of yours and anyone else's that are lying around.

(BTW I did contribute to that, about 3-4 years ago, the networks were no longer interested in cue they wanted STEMS, and boy did I give it to them, At the time I was like "Whatever...pay me" Now? I see that I was putting composers out of work if you are currently composing for a TV  series and they are asking for stems only...

STOP GIVING IT TO THEM, they only want them so they won't have to pay you next time.

I honestly think the music business (What's left of it) is run by the dumbest crooks in the pen.

There's a musicians union! I belong to it! Not because I want to or because they are of any use what so ever, they are simply an extortion front, who set themselves up as the gatekeepers to things (Like touring Visas) that don't REQUIRE a gatekeeper, they are a scam, they sit there and say:

"Nope, can't have that unless you are a union member in good standing"

At this point, you have to pay ALL YOUR RETROACTIVE BACK DUES!!! And for what?!?!

NOTHING! They do NOTHING! While we get insulted and abused by this 5% of 50% over 5-year B.S

They do NOTHING!!!!

Listen, though I don't buy into the whole right-left B.S, I do have beliefs that are somewhat libertarian and would, therefore, be called "Right-wing"

I'm NOT a fan of unions and organized labor, there was a time and a place when they were absolutely necessary, but that time passed AGES ago, not they are greedy lazy leeches trying to get as much as they can for as little work as possible...

.....but right now, I feel like the musicians union needs to be DECERTIFIED! (We can do that you know?)

A new union set up, and have a total and complete shutdown of ALL MUSICAL SERVICES

From little Johnny and the jerk-offs all the way up to The Rolling Stones and Metallica, total touring and musical output EMBARGO

SHUT THIS DOWN L.A.M.F!!! (To borrow a phrase from the late great Johnny Thunders)

Let's tell them we will return musical services to them at a rate of 1% a year over 5 years...

.....I mean, that's fair.....right?