Lula wrote:This is just plain wrong to sit here and speculate on how much Steve Perry is worth. In my opinion, some things should be kept in private. Although I think some of the earlier predictions are laughable and way off, I would be a hypocrite in furnishing my own opinion. Like I said, on a public board, this crap shouldn't be talked about.
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Well, what are we debating here?
Perry's personal net worth?
Or are we assigning a dollar value to his voice, in the concept that measuring value-added to the recordings he's contributed to?
If it's the former, I agree with you Dean, in that it's wrong to discuss such a thing publically.
However, if it's the later...people are just speculating on whether or not someone's contributions to a band, recorded work or performance constitute a measurable value. That's fair game, as far as I'm concerned. In fact, I'd bet a testicle that there isn't a profitable record company that doesn't already have some sort of model to estimate just such a thing.
Perhaps I need to go read the OP and see what's being asked....