[Libloather]

Play that funky music...

[faithhopecharity]

i love music but if that is their demand it is no wonder the music has died in San Francisco. absurd

[freedumb2003]

Public outrage will be up there with the Hockey strike...

[GeronL]

They need to raise ticket prices I guess.

or they can all quit and launch their own orchestra and pay themselves whatever they like. :p

[posterchild]

Throw up your hands,
Stick out your tush,
Hands on your hips,
Give ‘em a push
You’ll be surprised,
you’re doing the San Franciscan Mistake
Voila

[soycd]

I guess they can always extend their career switching to playing the boneophones and male organs in SF.

[DainBramage]

The only thing they did worth a shit was with Metallica.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“starving artists” is obviously a phrase from the past.

[Fiji Hill]

This action brings to mind the 1942 strike against the recording companies by the instrumentalists, an event that, arguably, was instrumental in killing the Big Band Era.

A Christmas classic nearly became a casualty of the strike. Days before the walkout, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians worked frantically to complete their recording of A Visit from St. Nicholas, and they barely got it "in the can" before the strike began. Otherwise, this recording that remains popular to this day would almost certainly never have come into existence.

Absent the instrumentalists, popular music took on some interesting sounds and characteristics. Some of the big hits of 1943, including Oh, What a Beautiful Morning by Frank Sinatra, People Will Say We're In Love by Bing Crosby & Trudy Erwin, with the Sportsmen Quartet, and Dick Haymes' Put Your Arms Around Me used background singers, but no instruments.

When the strike was finally settled, many of the strikers were unable to go back to work. They found that the public's tastes had changed, and big bands were no longer as popular as they had been before the strike. Singers and combo jazz were now in vogue, and an uptempo, bluesy sound, later to morph into rock and roll, was gaining an audience.

[Carry_Okie]

After Federal and California taxes on a salary like that, $150K isn’t that much to live on in San Francisco.

[MV=PY]

Clearly we need to legislate mandatory ticket purchases for those citizens that are able to earn income. That way the “revenue” would make the work product of these talented folks available to all and reduce costs at the same time. (Do I need the /s tag?)

[dead]

The San Francisco Symphony said on Sunday that it has canceled its upcoming East Coast tour as its musicians continue to strike over compensation.

"This is devasting news!" said nobody on the east coast.