What is the most useless job society has?

[Mr Angry]

Na, musicians are usless, should get real jobs, and stop preying on the young.

What instrument do you play?

 

[Twizzle]

don't hold your breath waiting for an answer Angry

 

[Mr Angry]

He come on, I got a lurker to post.....I am sure when he/she is done busking at a train station, they will enough to post again at an internet cafe.

 

[Twizzle]

lurker, lol

if you only knew

 

[Mr Angry]

So a coward, not a lurker..

anways.. I just watched a story on the Grammys (pedoes) whatever you call it.

Lady goo goo was there, Bieber with ashtray, and of course Mick Jagger 104 not out... quailty industry, sucking in children...they love it.

What a great show for suckers........and those like Jagger who cling like death to thier youth.

Even the Aussie beat Dolly...hey I would take Tom's rejects too.

most grow up.....then there are musicians.

 

[Mr Angry]

Tell you what too, if anyone wants to get into the copyright law, and the fact musicians expoit like no others, I am up for that.

Go china I say.....

 

[Mr Angry]

A 10-YEAR-old Canadian singer, dubbed the female Justin Bieber, looks set to follow her young countryman on the fast track to stardom after being signed by Simon Cowell.
The music mogul and creator of The X Factor swooped for Heather Russell after being tipped off by former Canadian Idol judge Zack Werner, British newspaper The Independent reported.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/simon-cowell-signs-youtube-sensation-10-dubbed-the-female-justin-bieber/story-e6frfn09-1226007947580#ixzz1EGqMMoxZ

And the insidious nature of this industry shows itself again

 

[Twizzle]

more child exploitation

 

[Willow]

What about Paul Robeson? He had one of the best voices of the 20th Century. I even bought an LP of his once. The son of a black american slave, Robeson stood up against the McCarthy trials in the 1950s and sung for the workers on construction site of the Sydney Opera House. Your kind of fella Mr Angry. Not a kiddie exploiter.

 

[Mr Angry]

Sounds a decent man, music a hobby, and again shows how people like musos of thier era.

And then there is what music is today, and industry preying the young and the copyright laws, meant to protect true inventors. Disgusting trade.

 

[ozbash]

I even bought an LP of his once.

I used to have those.

dubbed the female Justin Bieber

Justin is a male ?

 

[Willow]

I wonder how many folks here know what an LP is. ;-)

Sounds a decent man, music a hobby, and again shows how people like musos of thier era.

And then there is what music is today, and industry preying the young and the copyright laws, meant to protect true inventors. Disgusting trade.

As far as I know, the US govt wrecked Paul Robeson's life. Very popular in Australia but rubbed out in his home country. They took away his passport because he was a black rights activist, and always had something to say about it while abroad.

Music was more than a hobby. He used his music popularity to deliver a very important message. It probably killed him in the end but history shows that he was right.

So what about Beethoven?

 

[Mr Angry]

Rewarded as he should be.

 

[Mr Angry]

It probably killed him in the end but history shows that he was right.

Because he sang, or because he championed human rights?

Did he die poor? Or what happens today? Rich with no talent, or like Beethoven poor and still looking for a real job?

 

[Willow]

Both.

Well Robeson was rewarded, but those awards were taken away by the US govt, only reinstated after his death.

People go on about the injustices handed out to Ali, Mandella and Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter. But they were popular causes.

Yeah yeah, songs have been written about those fellas as well.

Robeson did die poor, in a manner of speaking. The McCarthyists put him out of business. The greatest black singer of the 20th century has a relatively modest following.

Btw, Robeson played football as well - american football has its roots in rugby football - so in a way he is one of us. Those records were also stripped but I understand they have since been reinstated thanks to some determined people.

 

[Titanic]

I wonder how many folks here know what an LP is.

I was asked recently by my nephew, visiting his only uncle after graduating from uni, how did gramophones (he meant record players) play the flip side and was shocked when it was explained that the listener had to manually turn the record over. Gee, how I miss the sound of sand scratches between meaningful guitar solos ... whatever happened to Iron Butterfly?

 

[Twizzle]

 

[innsaneink]

I seem to recall them as being black in colour

 

[Willow]

I once heard a teenage girl describing how her parents had these 'big black CDs' stored in their garage.

 

[Parra Pride]

I'm changing my vote from Tim Sheen to the Souths Halves as the most useless job.