Protest From The Backwaters
Sir,—Ever since the income' tax people put musicians in a class along with street clean, ers, drovers, and television
performers (several grades below those occupied in gathering potatoes and refuse removal) I have come to accept that we must be somewhere on the outer. Your article last Saturday dealing! with dn gs has finally removed the few social pretensions we musicians had remaining The; bitter truth is revealed when we read that "many of the; addicts appeared to be musicians, odd-balls, homosexuals, and others outside society’s; mainstream." This explains the draughty concert platforms, the dingy dressingrooms, and the beat-up pianos What can you expect if you drift out of "society's mainstream”? Unfortunately, council rate demands seem to follow you whether you are mainstream or properly washed up. It’s some consolation that you can often feel quite at home in the company iof odd-balls—provided, of (course, you are one yourself, j— Yours, etc., MAURICE TILL ( February 16. 1970.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32224, 17 February 1970, Page 12
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