{"id":2454911,"date":"2020-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321432"},"modified":"2020-02-24T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:33:14","slug":"crocodile-tears-for-kajx-djs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/crocodile-tears-for-kajx-djs\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile tears for KAJX DJs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This letter concerning the unfairness of it all concerning KAJX\u2019s DJs has been delayed due to my need for more and still more Kleenex. Having temporarily recovered, I\u2019d like to point out that no one has mentioned the \u201cunfairness\u201d of musicians having their work appropriated by others without compensation. \u201cAppropriated\u201c in this case being a euphemism for \u201cstolen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I don\u2019t know all of the KAJX DJs, but Dan Sadowski is probably the only one who could bring a couple of instruments and his sidekick Pastor Mustard to a show and provide music and humor in a self-contained and original fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Songwriters are compensated for broadcast performance through ASCAP and BMI. Recording musicians who bring those songs to life are not, unless they wrote the song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This situation helps one to understand how the racehorse must feel when the judges give the jockey the silver cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Bill Parish<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/crocodile-tears-for-kajx-djs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter concerning the unfairness of it all concerning KAJX\u2019s DJs has been delayed due to my need for more and still more Kleenex. Having temporarily recovered, I\u2019d like to point out that no one has mentioned the \u201cunfairness\u201d of musicians having their work appropriated by others without compensation. \u201cAppropriated\u201c in this case being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 14:04:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454943,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454911\/revisions\/2454943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}