Chris Dalariva

I mean, you recorded a song, but you had to have a record label that had promotion people that would go out and promote the song to radio stations.

Radio airplay had a lot to do with how successful a song was going to be.

There were gatekeepers that if your stuff didn't match what they wanted it to sound like, you would never get your record released.

And the people who put music out online and some people become stars as a result, but probably most people don't.

So what's the difference?

What is it?

Is it the music is just so much better?

Or what is it that makes some online musicians successful?

How, if at all, how is the technology by which music is delivered to people, which is so very different than it used to be, how has that technology impacted the way the music is created in the first place?

Another trend that I've noticed is how in commercials today, they often use music from hit songs from the 60s or 70s.

You'll hear, you know, the Rolling Stones or the Who song in a commercial today.

And I'm wondering if...

if there's something about the music business that drives that, because there's plenty of good music out today, why go back that far and why those songs?

Lastly, I wanted to ask you, because I think people wonder about this,

Is writing songs and performing songs a great way to earn money for the rest of your life?

That's very, very hard to do.

Well, this was fun.

It's obviously a subject I enjoy talking about, as do you, since you wrote a whole book about it.

And it was very insightful.

Chris Dalariva has been my guest and the name of his book is Uncharted Territory.