Crosby is another musician I love but he doesn't appear to realise that the very platform he's making that announcement on also hosts Joe Rogan. Why isn't he closing his Twitter account too?
Net Worth
| Neil Young | $200 million |
| Joni Mitchell | $100 million |
| David Crosby | $10 million |
I guess it's fine to see multimillionaires put themselves on the line like this but, even spending what they have at a lavish rate, they are old and their lives will run out before their dollars do. That is to say they really aren't risking much.
Surely, one might say, they could do more good using their money philanthropically, and Neil Young certainly does. Among the 7 organisations he supports is MusiCares which declared him their person of the year in 2010. Joni Mitchell is their person of the year for 2022.
MusiCares seems to do good work supporting musicians but I get the feeling that pulling their music from spotify will be a good thing for younger musicians as old music is sucking all the air out of the room and new musicians are struggling to make a buck.
Admittedly, they made some good music back in the day - and I'm not going to throw out their records. In fact, I may subversively stick them on the turntable and give them a spin knowing that I can listen to the songs as often as I want and they don't make a cent from each play. Oh that old fashioned non-monetizable music format. I paid for it just the once, and that's all the dollars they'll ever get from me.
Anyway, to Joe Rogan I'd just like to say:
There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can
Keep on rockin' in the free world
