:D As was pointed out earlier in the thread most bands don`t make money touring. Although it`s more acurate to say they don`t make profits from touring, they generally generate enough to pay band members wages as it were but not enough to make money on top of that.
The idea of touring was to help increase the sales of your albums the idea being that after you`d made your 3rd to 4th album the band would be selling lots of albums & at that point you`d renegotiate your contract with your record company. Genesis tell the story that they were bankrupt & pennyless when they played Knebworth in i think 76/77. But they had such a large fan base that there record deal was up so when they moved from Charisma they got offered a huge sum of money & a great points return on every sale they made. The Chilis have been going for years, believe me they`ve renegotiated there deal !!
As for CD sales i have no sympathy with the industry what so ever for the download issue. It`s there own fault for forcing people to pay £15 for 1 single cd. I like most if not all the people on this forum use a shareware file service. It`s a great way of listening to an album to hear if it`s any good or not before buying it !!! . I`ve found that far to many Albums get stunningly overated reviews, so downloading songs from the album is a great way of hearing before buying.
As for the survival of the industry as it currently stands it`s not going to survive :twisted: & as far as i`m personnaly concerned good ridance to bad, rip off, Cr@p. The trueth is no ones buying this F***ing S**t because its utter F***ing Cr@p not because there illegally downloading it. The internet is the future, Bands not being tied down to or even needing record companys [ Majors] & then able to tie up deals with touring inorder to make money is the way to go.
:D 8)
