It's night and day. From when he began his career and when I began my career, there has been a seismic shift.
I received the $280 to do one recording session for Republic of Doyle. I do one recording session. I go in there and I play my fiddle for three hours, doing a whole bunch of different “stings”, as they're called, that are used over a series of episodes. Say I did five seasons of the same show, I'd have five sessions for $280 each session.
I don't know how much studio work Bryan did for Canadian television shows, but one of the things he said two days ago that really caught my ear was that he made two albums that didn't do well before he had a hit. We are in a climate now where artists are making records, and if they don't have a hit on their first record or first single, they're gone because we have been subsidizing billionaires and we need to stop that.