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Phil Frazier
Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 823
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 12:15 pm Post subject: THE TWILIGHT ZONE |
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The label is saying that if an Artist does not have an Attorney or Mgr. representing them that they must spend $50 in order for the label listen to the Artists' material.
Edited by: Phil Frazier at: 1/7/03 2:42:35 am
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Geosphere
Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 37
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: *A Label Asks Artists for $50 to listen to Artists!!!* |
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Tell them it costs $51 to hear you.
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Phil Frazier
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RonOnGuitar
Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: THE TWILIGHT ZONE |
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Artists do have to watch where their $$ go. There are legit expenditures in getting noticed, but anytime $$ are asked for upfront a warning bell should go off and questions should be asked.
If you're talking only about getting reviewed, more or less, there are plenty place online and off that will do that at no charge. Of course, they might not give an artist the strokes they were expecting, haahaw-haww!!
By way of example, I do reviews for Demorama.Com, an unsigned-indie artist group that's been around for awhile. I believe some of the artists find the reviews helpful in fine-tuning their stuff. Since it doesn't cost anything, the price is right, heh-heh. Of course, some reviewers use pseudonyms
(including self) to cut down on the number of severed horseheads discovered in my bed. At any rate, I think it's wise to be a bit wary re: upfront money for review services.
But the exchange of $$$ for something that should hopefully be mutually beneficial has always been a cause for asking a question or two. The M.O. itself just reminded me a bit of the "turn poems to hit songs" scam the unwary - usually the general nonmusic-biz savvy public - still fall for, to wit:
www.sharpeworld.com/song_poems/
--Ron
Edited by: RonOnGuitar at: 1/9/03 4:38:37 pm
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bbchris Princess Of Hongkong
Joined: 01 Jan 2002 Posts: 11441 Location: Hong Kong
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RonOnGuitar
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Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2003 7:01 am Post subject: Re: THE TWILIGHT ZONE |
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When I was about 13 (back in the Jurassic Era) one of my bros and I wrote some gawd-awful "lyrics" - I mean they were bad on purpose - to send to one of these 'song mills' just to see what kind of reply it got. Of course, they loved it, lol!! And all they wanted was a good amount of $$$ ($50 US, I think)to put music to the words, hahahaa!!
But the "contract" said they would share all royalties 50-50 - hahahhhaaa!!!
But that neat songwriter club card on the page would be nice to have all that preferential treatment it affords the bearer!
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If you have a demo, even just a "home-burned CD, of TOL that would be fine if you ever cared to submit to Demorama for a review at all. Or if an artist(s) has 3 or more full length songs - hopefully streaming - online, that's good too. Demorama reviews only unsigned indie artists - I'm not sure if TOL is in that category(?). I've been writing/reviewing for 'em for about a year - Demorama gets a good amount of submissions of misc. genres from around the world, so it's interesting what turns up . (The submissions are assigned to, or picked at random by, the writers.)
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