Dizzy O'Brian

Why Independent Artists? The question being, why independent artists? If you have the freedom to choose between a few things that are, for all practical purposes, the same, do you really have a freedom of choice? Once upon a time, there was but one Catholic Church and the service was in Latin and there was NO music. No freedom of choice there. One couldn’t say ‘honey, let’s pop down to the new church on the corner and hear the service in German, so we’d know what the hell their saying, and maybe they’ll have some nice lute music.’ No, there was none of that. Of course, we’re talking about the Dark Ages. Then Martin Luther thought he’d just translate the service into German, not change anything, mind you, and for that he was excommunicated. So, as far as music went first you had the Church controlling things and then it sort of shifted over to Royalty and such, supporting music, so they had control and wanted mostly party music. So, all the while the composers dreamt of bei...