Barry,

First of all with around 100 BILLION songs out there, you could go on strike forever, even every writer who ever lived could stop doing music and it wouldn't even be a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of songs that are already out there. You wouldn't be MISSED at ALL. None of us would. That comes up all the time and I say "Sure. Why don't you go ahead and go on strike? If you are a hit writer on music Row and you are saying that, they could come back and say "NO, YOU GO ON STRIKE! You tell your families, your creditors, people who depend on you for THEIR livelyhoods that you are not going to make any money until you get things the way YOU want them." Go ahead....make our day.

It's not going to ever happen because for every person who would go on strike, tens of thousands would just take their place. Would they all be GOOD? That really doesn't even matter because music, like art, is subjective and what you think is good, might not be thought is good by other people even the masses.

But YOU CAN GO ON STRIKE. You have that power. You can stop writing songs now. Not contribute at all to anything. Not let anyone hear anything you do until they pay you for it. You can do that. Go ahead. I'll wait. I'm pretty patient. And since I've been hearing this for around 40 years now, I'm still waiting for the big major music strike to happen. Just like I keep waiting for all the major labels to fold. Yeah. Go ahead. I'm waiting on that one too.

The truth is that we are each only as good as the people who listen to, become atracted to, and pay us for our creative work.

Before you get a royalty check, you first have to get a REALITY CHECK.

MAB