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Essay on How Bands Tour
Like all workers, the musicians that perform popular music need and deserve fair remuneration for their hard work as well as safe and comfortable working conditions. At the present, obstacles Music sector encompasses many styles of music. Some of these require a lot of expensive electronic musical equipment which results in far greater expense and labor than other more traditional acoustic types of music performances. Since the mid - sixties, these elaborate stage production costs combined with the lack of collective bargaining rights have left the musicians who prefer to perform live or do so out of need, seriously underpaid for their labor. Also, there are several aspects of this type of performance that can be hazardous to the health, safety and well being of these artists.
There are of course many different situations that require the need for rate formulations such as the Guilde now uses. However even these, which are a scale paid to musicians who work under the very best conditions, fall short of fair remunerations for the actual labor involved.This mainly is due to the fact that musicians are often asked to perform other tasks such as: vocal doubling, rehearsal, new material learning , personal practice, equipment handling, boo keeping, driving rented vehicles and other miscellaneous duties. The need for guidelines to protect musicians and to insure fair remuneration is great and urgent.
The lower paying jobs offer $30.00 per man per night. Better jobs can sometimes pay between $100.00 and $175.00 per man per night. Some agents and clubs offer bands what seems to be very good pay such as $3500.00 for a 4 day club engagement, but require very elaborate lighting and staging and usually requires bigger bands of 6 or 8 musicians or more. This is of course before the agent's commission and rentals and other expenses.....
