Original QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate was recently interviewed by Rock Titan.
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Tate addressed the fact that physical and digital music sales are continuing to fall as the music business inches closer to an access-over-ownership model.
Tate went on to praise METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich whose band’s image took a tremendous beating in the eyes of music fans after METALLICA launched legal action against the pioneering music file-sharing service Napster in 2000.
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“Hats off to him for standing up and saying what he felt, ’cause he was right,” Tate said. “I challenge anybody to suffer an 85-percent loss in their income, like musicians did — people that wrote music, that wrote songs. 85-percent loss in income — that’s staggering.”