DISQUS

the spam bots have moved in .. :P

as long as people are subscribed to your feedburner feed, then no matter where you move this thing the feed should stick, it was fine in my reader... so hopefully your stats stay up. :)

dont forget the price tag.

no clue

yeah its a 34 gallon reef!.. i started keeping fish as something extra to do a few years back... i've learned enough in reef forums and keeping a few small tanks to do this but it is way too expensive a hobby. :P

hhaha, thanks.

this was all in final cut pro 6 ... no motion this time

commercial photography, his source of income, selling yourself is pretty important . this is a promo for just that. :)

viva transfatty acids!

i was outside and must have been right under the thing because it sounded like a bomb and i felt pressure on my back, twice... was so awesome. sound is beautiful. *sniffles*

P.P.S.

I agree with a comment above that says it is also about the heart. I have no problem not getting paid and i am not jealous of the people i know personally who do. it is their place to decide if their compensation is deserved or not. and it is their heart which decides if they are being superficial or authentic when they play. i believe i am authentic when i play. thats all that matters to me.

however, another spice to throw in the soup: what if the musician is authentic, has no job, and has a need? a lot of musicians are pretty poor and gear is top dollar. should he/she be compensated? if you compensate one, do you compensate them all? do you keep it a secret?

juicy discussion....

P.S.. Tony is right on.

A different take: Are "worship teams" just "glorified" cover bands? The music wasn't created by them, they just play it. Which means the church legally needs the rights to play such music by licensing through CCLI, therefore the writer of the song gets paid a royalty even though he or she had no direct involvement in the service that night. Now, these incredible coverband musicians are getting no compensation when the original author and the record label and the producers are seeing a cut. When you hire the best Journey coverband in town for your wedding, they're getting paid. Why shouldn't musicians playing at church be compensated? Ah yes, the "servant" attitude argument. Then shouldn't the record label have a servant's heart and freely give their music without license?

Community is something that is built over time. I play, UNPAID, for ONE church in a drummer rotation and STILL don't know all of the names of everyone i play with. The guitarist, bassist, sure, I work with them the closest. But community is more of a time thing. Time and trust. To the spectator, Mr. Joe Middleclass in the audience, may have no clue that something is not jiving, they are hearing a combination of instruments creating music.

To us, we see an episode of "will it blend" with disconnected rotating people thrown in.

Is there a fine line between taking advantage of or respecting a servants heart?