Dear Brenda, The nice thing is that I have never given up on the music business despite my negative experiences. I truly believe that you were a good A&R person because I feel that you sincerely care about artists. I'm not trying to paint Clive Davis as a saint, but he seems to have the same qualities, and he seems to really love music as well as developing artists. When I see people like him and you, it's hard to totally give up on the industry. I do hope it changes and eases up on the greed factor. I believe that financial circumstances in the industry will force it to do so, or the industry will go down trying to hang on to too much of the pie.
Sincerely, Sherelle In a message dated 02/28/2002 10:49:14 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:38:13 -0800 > From: "Brenda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: was Broadcasters Outraged ... advice to artists NJC > > On 28 Feb 2002 at 3:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > So true. I had a very bad experience with an A&R guy/Producer from a > > record label 20 odd years ago. It left a taste so bad in my mouth that > > I dropped out of the music scene completely. > > I did A&R for five years. We're not all bad! ; ) However, I will say > that when you get > interest from a company it is very important to find out what their motives > are and what > the individual's motives are and what your potential success will mean for > them.
