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| From | Ralph Alfonso <ralph@nettwerk.com> |
| Subject | 500 cds = free beer from an A&R guy |
| Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:24:25 -0700 |
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> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:38:38 +0000
> From: Mike Vancha <mvancha@sk.sympatico.ca>
>Subject: Majors
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>> From: Lee Elliott <pop@anotherplanet.ca>
>> Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:38:27 -0600
>> To: audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: Rants
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>> I imagine the best way to get signed is like Beck or White Stripes - when
>> you already have some success and they want a piece.
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>I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but I've always heard in Canada if
>you sell 5000 independently, the majors start to listen. Jaimie?
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>Mike V.
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hahahahaa..... if you can make it to 1000, you can count on a free
lunch with an A&R rep
& some free cds from the pile in their office... the cover of your
local weekly paper
and maybe somebody from atlantic calling you (those atlantic reps
used to be EVERYWHERE at
one point)...
5000 gets you a bidding war (in theory), your own label P&D deal, and
a bag of money, too....
the US labels are all over Canada scooping up acts... i think half of
canada's alt country
& folkie brigade is on Rounder/Zoe already...
who can ever figure an A&R rep out?
best book i ever read was Simon napier-bell's bio and how he scammed
all these US A&R guys
with phoney groups and masters by session guys.... he'd just come in
to NYC... start at one end
and work his way down till he ran out of masters to sell.....
hahahahaaa...... *sigh*
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