Right on Ben!!!
Just a reality check for all those who don't know the way that the
record industry works. There ARE NOT, contrary to popular belief,
record company thugs that hang out in studios with guns and chain saws
insisting that a band plays a certain way. All the companies really
ask is that the job gets done and gets done right. The only thing that
could truly change the music and the sound is the band and it's
producer. I don't foresee a SDRE hip hop album happening just cause a
record exec. thinks thats the cool thing. Get my drift?
I will not deny that the industry is cut throat. If your not
producing they're gonna cut your ass. Would you start a business and
keep a guy working for you if he doesn't do jack? Doubt it.
Look at it this way, If they have to keep paying for everything out
of their own pockets, this isn't gonna last long. In order to keep
being a great band they need to keep focus in the music and not spend
their energy trying to organize a profitable business. They need to
get whats theirs while the time is right.
Just some thoughts
Jeff
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>thoughts;
>sunny day, if signed would play more shows, hopefully. how can that
be a bad
>thing since many on this list have only seen them a handful of times
if at
>all. signing would help the band make "better" albums by letting
them do
>things that helped them get signed, i.e. make great songs that are
not
>universal but speak to some souls that are smart enough to but their
>recordings. chris thompson would get paid more for the use of his
paintings.
>dan could buy more chickens, or onions if he's vegetarian this is
all if the
>record company gives them money.
> earlier this year some of the big heads in the music biZ
handed out
>pink slips to a SHITLOAD of bands. Primus, who really hasn't done
anything
>musically great in five years got dropped. now i know hardly anyone
on this
>list listens to primus, (i don't), but you could buy stickers and
shirts at
>musicland and sam goody for gods sake. the huge bands eventually
aren't so
>big. korn will pass. emo will not take america by storm as it
shouldn't.
>don't blame nirvana, a group of olympia punks that wrote good rock
songs.
>blame bush for coppying the sound. blame days of the new for
reminding people
>of alice in chains. blame the malls, blame fox undercover, hell,
blame the
>illuminates and the masons, just dont hold anything against a working
band
>that wants to put out good music.
>
>have some real estate
>-ben
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