Jim,

Thanks for chiming in from Europe. I was referring to discussions I've had both with European PRO's (Bumra Stemra if I spelled it close enough for you to know what I am referring to) for example and also to people in France, Italy, Germany and Belgium. In France in particular (where the story about the party originates) they seem pretty hard core. In fact, across a lot of Europe I found much less live music taking place than in the USA because venues told me that it's just too expensive to license it. It was significantly more than in the USA where it's often the cost of a cup of coffee per day to have live music in a small venue. In Italy, the concept of common music spilling out in every venue across town was totally alien. Go to Chicago and you can often find music in venue after venue. Not all of it great, but certainly a lot going on just about any night of the week.

I am really glad to have you here Jim. I wish we could get more Europeans in on these discussions. You have to deal with a lot of unique problems there and we could learn from them. It just proves that, as I've been saying for 11 years, "we're all in this together" sometimes whether we like it or not.

Brian

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