I ran into a place here that was fined a bundle because they weren't paying the royalties, so they were not hiring anymore live entertainment.

I never ran into this before, I was amazed.

Turns out the restaurant blew the whistle on themselves. They contacted ASCAP and asked if they needed to pay for live entertainment. Apparently ACAP checked them out and fined them several thousand bucks! They are now out of business.

Probably the other "weird" thing that I remember was something about if a club hired a non-union band they would get black-listed for like a year where no band could perform there. The band I was with at the time was the first band to go back in after they were off the defaulters list.

This seems really strange to me, but it really seems like that's the way it was. Back in about 1972.

Scott