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On August 1, 1942, the American Federation of Musicians, at the instigation of union president James C. Petrillo, began a strike against the major American record companies because of disagreements over royalty payments. Beginning on midnight, July 31, 1942, no union musician could make commercial recordings for any commercial record company. [1]
In 1887, the AFL and the Knights of Labor first invited the National League of Musicians to affiliate with the trade-union movement, but the offers produced deep divisions within the National League of Musicians. Some members objected to musicians being called laborers, insisting instead that they were "artists and professionals."
Though, in his youth, Petrillo played the trumpet, he finally made a career out of organizing musicians into the union starting in 1919. [2] Petrillo became president of the Chicago Local 10 of the musician's union in 1922, and was president of the American Federation of Musicians from 1940 to 1958. [3] Petrillo stepped down as president in ...
The only time the three had performed together in Yes was the 1991–1992 Union Tour during the band's short time as an eight-member formation. [8] Plans to have Wakeman play with Anderson and Rabin on Talk (1994) never materialised. [9] For Wakeman, not playing on a Yes studio album with Rabin became one of his regrets. [8]
The International Federation of Musicians (FIM) was established on August 3,1948, during a conference in Zürich, which had been organized on the initiative of the Swiss Musicians' Union. The conference brought together key figures in the music industry to address musician's rights and the need for international cooperation in protecting these ...
The USSR State Jazz Band (or the State Jazz Orchestra of the USSR, [1] Russian: Государственный джаз-оркестр СССР) was a Soviet jazz band that existed in 1930s–1940s. After it was auditioned by Joseph Stalin in 1938, a number of similar state-sponsored musical ensembles were created across the country.
On 7 May 1893 in Manchester a meeting was held to form a union for musicians, twenty musicians attended and formed the Manchester Musicians' Union. [4] The meeting had been organised by the union's first secretary, Joseph Bevir Williams, who became the leader of the Amalgamated Musicians' Union as the union was renamed to include artists from across the United Kingdom. [4]
I thought, if I ever make music, that's what I want my music to do. And when we started making music, it kinda stuck around." [146] Five Iron Frenzy – According to former bassist Keith Hoerig, a roommate of the band members would defend himself with a golf club, out of fear that he'd get attacked, and called it "putter mayhem". Guitarist ...