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| From | "Michael Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
| Subject | Re: Thank you, Jaimie |
| Date | Sat, 12 May 2007 16:19:15 +0100 |
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I second that.
I think the posts over the last week on this subject, particularly from
Jaimie, but from all performers and consumers, has opened my eyes to just
how the business currently operates, and where it has come from in recent
years.
The majority of my CD purchases are from indie labels, whether that be from
folks on this list, or from acts on the big(ger) indie labels such as Merge,
Matador, Bella Union, Yep Roc, etc., so I pray to god that there is always
going to be a way for these people to stay in business and keep the music
coming.
And who better on Eurovision day than Bennie and Bjorn to sum it up for
us????
So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me
Mike.
>From: "Bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <president@bullseyecanada.com>, <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Thank you, Jaimie
>Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 07:52:39 -0700
>
>This was such a great post -- thanks for it, Jaimie. -- Bryan
>
>
>>Thanks...and to Adam for the recognition. But I'm not decrying a right or
>>wrong vision here. There is no need to draw a line or make camps. I want
>>to make it perfectly clear that I encourage the purchase of music in
>>whatever form --- I only got defensive when the value of the music itself
>>was declared insignificant. It was like having someone insult my mama :-)
>>
>>Somewhere in the intervening years between being a musician and running
>>the record label I had to decide whether to make the music industry my
>>living....no one except Segarini, Hershberger and David Bradley on this
>>list knows that I was, in my former life, a civil servant -- 12 years as a
>>certified records manager and archivist (an ironic title given my future
>>career). I was at a financial crossroad with a baby on the way, a new
>>marriage and the opportunity to be given the golden handshake from the
>>City of Toronto to the tune of 40 weeks pay and ALL my medical plan
>>investment back. Coincidentally, I was offered a year's salary to write
>>what has become the Canadian Music Encyclopedia...AND at the exact same
>>time was offered a NEW position as content editor for the, then, flagship
>>launch of SamTheRecordMan.com (RIP).
>>
>>I had the friggin' world by the tail....a huge buy-out, a new job in the
>>music biz and a sideline income writing the Encyclopedia. It was time to
>>stop being a silly servant and finally commit, full-time, to the music
>>industry. That was 9 years ago. Every dime I was paid in 1998 went into
>>the re-launch of Bullseye as a corporation (I had run the company part
>>time since 1985 as 'sole proprietorship'). In April 2000 my business
>>partner came on board and we went global.
>>
>>We've released 117 CDs , one vinyl LP, 7 DVDs and a best selling book by
>>Greg Godovitz since 1996. I've even been able to revive my music career
>>(which was put on hold the exact year this 'dream' began so that I could
>>focus on the important elements of establishing the label), see the
>>reunion of KLAATU, send one act to Japan, dozens of IPO gigs, roadied for
>>the Bay City Rollers, attended an industry brain-trust holiday weekend in
>>Cancun, Mexico, met some incredible people on this list (the main reason I
>>still read and contribute), and can count some of the greatest Canadian
>>rock stars (and two comedians) as my personal friends now.
>>
>>But it's been no picnic. l've gone through three distributors (and about
>>40 sales reps from each), a near fatal moose impact accident in a van,
>>four office relocations, the collapse of three major retail chains (Sam
>>The Record Man, CDPlus, Tower Records), loss of my front tooth during a
>>meeting with EMI, four kidney stones, gained 75 pounds, had nearly all my
>>hair turn grey, been denied credit, been stranded in LA/New York/Chicago
>>without a personal dime to get me out, had the RCMP investigate us for
>>having TOO much money in the bank (!!!), been ripped off by two of my own
>>acts, become the proud owner of 35,000 unsellable pieces of inventory, and
>>the disbanding of half the acts on our roster.
>>
>>Would I give it all up? Yep....but only if the public fails to support
>>what we do. I don't care what the rest of the industry is doing...I only
>>care about what WE are doing to reach our audiences and continue
>>generating revenue from that. I've got a lot mouths to feed and if that
>>stops being viable, I will go back and work for the government. They're
>>already devalued. So expectations are low.
>>
>>
>>
>>Jaimie Vernon,
>>President, Bullseye Records
>>http://www.bullseyecanada.com
>>
>>SWAG:
>>http://www.cafepress.com/bullseyecanada
>>BULLSEYE LIVE 365 RADIO:
>>http://www.live365.com/stations/bullseyerecords
>>
>>Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
>>http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
>>
>>http://www.myspace.com/jaimievernonsmovingtargetz
>
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