ABSTRACT
Working as a rock journalist is a helpful adjunct to other modes of researching the multifaceted rock industry. It allows access to members of well-known bands, permitting one to ask them a wide variety of questions with the tape recorder running and to hang with them backstage, on the bus, and in the studio. Over the years, almost a decade now, since Charlie Gillett called the author's attention to the lack of love between other musicians and the singer. The author discusses and observes this phenomenon with sufficient number and variety of bands to give her some confidence that it is genuine. One of a complex of factors that helps to explain negative views toward singers relates to their "otherness." Some of acrimony between the singer and the musicians is documented in the press; those who work in the rock industry know far more. In a gossip website for the industry, the Velvet Rope, one thread was on this topic.
