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> My son regarded what we did as illegal. He kept saying it was wrong to
> steal the music. I told him we were listening to it, just that. When we
> were finished we could trash it if he preferred. If he wants to fight for
> my rights he could call up BMI and ask them why my broadcast-related
> payments were so low during the years The Who were in the top 10 AOR
> playlists. He might ask them why during the 1989 Who tour, when we paid a
> huge sum of money to BMI for the right to perform songs I had written, they
> eventually paid me (after a lot of complaining from my manager) a tiny
> portion of that sum, excusing themselves because their main payout area
> that year was Nashville.
> 

Via slumberland.org, [1] Pete Townshend [2] on the recording industry.

[1] http://www.slumberland.org/
[2] http://www.rockrap.com/nomusicbiz/pete.html

Email author at sean@conman.org

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