Re: About the elusive record deal
- From: Cynthiangel@xxxxxxxxx (Cydne Singer)
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 21:18:16 -0700
I have been lurking much more than posting of late. Having been
transplanted ( rudely ripped up? ) from my old diggs in Hollywood,
spending 5 months of HELL with an alcoholic brother, and then getting a
teeny tiny ( smaller than my old digs ) apartment on a highway to
nowhere near ( meaning I have to bus to get groceries as I do not drive
and I am NOT gonna wait for a bus when it is 110 and it is close to that
tomorrow ). Soooo I have been a bit depressed and frazzled over
everything and have felt like singing or writing songs much ( though
have been working a little on fantasy writing, my other passion ).
I am posting this to let you ( Danny and Dec ) know how much I have
enjoyed hearing your stories.
Here are a few of my own: Years ago I can remember being approached by
a song publisher. When I mentioned the words "adminsitrative deal" you
could have cut through the ice that fomred with a knife! Also at the
time the big bone of contention with a lot of people was creative
control. No one was mentioning owning their publishing or said anything
about money.
And like myself at the time ( but once I found out I told others ) that
it was the artist who would be the one who paid for the recording and
the company that would own the masters they paid for. Once the internet
started to happen I told folks they needed to do it themselves and get
their material online. And yet... it seems that most of the people I
know that are in bands STILL want that record deal...
People in bands need to know about the business end of it or they will
get screwed and royally. But you are both right. In the beginning
everyone expects all the perks and don't seem to get that they are
giving up their rights and that they are paying for everything. It is as
if they are the food for a vampire's feast -- and then they are
presented the bill for being bled dry! Penny wise and pound foolish --
but those who are giving the penny expect you to pay that back and with
interest!
As far as making money, ah if we were only 23 and knew coding and could
put up a spiffy little website like yahoo or facebook or myspace that
would translate into a billion dollar plus payoff... why do we live in a
world that overvalues tech ( 47 something billion for yahoo and they
turn it DOWN? ) and yet art is still devalued. I would soooo love to see
that change. He who owns the company is he who makes the money. The rest
are just peons...
May the next internet revolution be for content.
Cyd
~~~ http://community-2.webtv.net/Cynthiangel/JustMySites/
~~~~ Biting at the bars, clawing at the cage; the wildcat of creativity
howls its frustration. Bent up and stifled, it now rages with a
relentless vengance, shrieking its song of ambition, wanting to be heard
above the dim muttering of the negativers. Rain on my parade --- I will
laugh difiantly, grabbing the silver drops to splice them into rainbows
for cloud linings. Glasses half empty spill not a drop of their
Job-comforter vitriol acidic platitudes onto the lemons I am squeezing
to make lemonade and then market it for my dreams. Biting at the bars, I
will bite them like they were candy sticks and then I will prowl into
the future of my success. CHS 4-22-08 Cat City
http://community-2.webtv.net/Cynthiangel/ComfortSong/
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