Just to clarify, I don't expect anyone to receive payment when musicians are just playing together for the love of it. But, when others are making a profit, out of the fact that it's YOUR music which is bringing people into a festival/concert/gig etc..then it seems only right to me that the very musicians, without whom, there'd be no audience in the first place, get to share some sort of financial reward, even if it only covers transport and you're given free food and drink, being treated with respect at all times.

Do you give away your CDs too, for free, as you give away your performances?

And is there bad feeling towards any musician/s who does/do get paid for their music, making their actual living from the natural talent they were born with?

How come you pay your plumbers, your builders and all others, whilst expecting to never be paid for your own skills?

I DO get the 'for the love of music' part, I really do, but it seems to me that if all of you offer your services for free, then eventually, even the musicians who DO get paid will be offered far less, or nowt at all...

If you are a talented musician, then you should be paid for performing, in my 'the woman talks out of her arse, as always' view.

Mick stated, a while back, that Pete Seeger agreed with this outlook, so would you have given Pete some of the rudeness and patronizing words which have been directed at me, I wonder?