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The las vegas massacre will have a huge impact on the music industry and the staging of concerts and music festivals. earlier i spoke with eric burger, singer/song writer for the animals. thank you for joining us. you reached out to me about this because you feel so passionate after this happened. what did you want to speak about? >> i was wondering if my point of view as a performer and the things that i see leading up to a performance, and other people in performance like friends of mine who were at the club in paris and came under heavy

Flack jackets, helmets, and armed with machine guns. we've just become used to it. we've let -- we've let it become the norm. and it's not the norm. we have to get -- we have to back up and realize this is not normal. >> eric, music heals. how do we move forward? how can music help with this? >> first of all, open-air concerts you're asking for trouble. any guy who has ill feelings in his heart towards gatherings of people, the open-air concert is just handing him a shooter's gallery on a platter. and a lot of damage can be done.

People get to keep all that money and they are guaranteed to get $50 for six hours' work and the homeless say they very much appreciate it. listen: >> everybody that's got a job will come together and grab 12 or grab two at a time, then you might not have a homeless problem. you will have working citizens, paying taxes, and living life. >> reporter: ah, but critics claim this practice is shameful, they say it's dehumanizing, distopian. eric burger writes, and i'm quoting, it has to do with digital divides, have and have not, and the idea that a fellow human is of no more use to you than an int...