Post by officialkilljoy on Feb 22, 2008 1:29:50 GMT -5
KINDERGARTEN COURSE TO BECOME A RECORDING ARTIST!
"Talent" is not required!
WHAT WON'T WORK! - The surest way to squander your life and spend it in abject poverty is to be idiotic enough to suppose that Record Companies "need talent" or finance pipe dreams. Being in the business of being a Recording Artist is being in the Business of BEING a Recording Artist! And if you can show any Record Company the garage General Motors gave to the mechanic - or the restaurant General Mills gave to the Chef - then that Record Company will give you a FREE Business of being a Recording Artist! - The damned lies of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC notwithstanding!
The next biggest blunder is thinking YOU can 'distribute' your own records! You can, with a few million bucks in the bank, but not Blivethead International Records from over next to the garbage dump. However, getting a release on a distributed label takes about ten minutes of common sense and ten thousand years of no paranoia! Details of exactly how to do that are linked below. You'll need to re-educate yourself out of the deliberately perpetuated Beer Joint Baritone delusions and into the real world of phonograph records. And EDUCATION in those realities is the key. - The damned lies of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC notwithstanding!
On a different level of the subject of Education: Nothing beats a good education, and that includes music, but having a Degree in Music doesn't guarantee a Recording Contract. It might guarantee a license to TEACH, but if you're thinking of a Music Career as a performer, as opposed to being a Conductor, then a Degree in Music is all but worthless. And you're going to have to make a financial investment to be in the Business of being a Recording Artist. - The damned lies of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC notwithstanding!
Publishing is FREE to songwriters! That's it! The entire freebie in existence. But being a songwriter does not entitle you to a FREE recording contract - and neither does anything else! If you contact the damned liars at ASCAP, BMI or SESAC, and ask about any monetary investment in music: they'll tell you that "spending any money is paying for publishing" - knowing damned well that being your own Executive Producer is not! NEVER pay a publisher! Not for 'lead sheets', not for 'better demos', not for anything else a Publisher needs or has to do to exploit a song!
And NEVER believe a god-damned thing the lying thieves at ASCAP, BMI or SESAC say about anything or anyone concerned with Recorded Music! They'll tell any lie, endorse any Beer Joint Baritone delusion, defame any honest offer, or commit virtually any other damnable act necessary to keep YOU or anyone else not in their respective 'Pay' or 'Pittance' Cliques out of this best-of-all businesses.
Even so, when any Record Company fronts any money - whether for recording (including demos), promotion, concert tours, whatever - each and every penny is taken out of the Artist's earnings with interest before the Artist is paid one red cent! And the entire debt must be repaid in full before the contract will expire. It's called "charge back" and there are no front money contracts without it! - The damned lies of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC notwithstanding!
"Talent" is not required!
WHAT WON'T WORK! - The surest way to squander your life and spend it in abject poverty is to be idiotic enough to suppose that Record Companies "need talent" or finance pipe dreams. Being in the business of being a Recording Artist is being in the Business of BEING a Recording Artist! And if you can show any Record Company the garage General Motors gave to the mechanic - or the restaurant General Mills gave to the Chef - then that Record Company will give you a FREE Business of being a Recording Artist! - The damned lies of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC notwithstanding!
The next biggest blunder is thinking YOU can 'distribute' your own records! You can, with a few million bucks in the bank, but not Blivethead International Records from over next to the garbage dump. However, getting a release on a distributed label takes about ten minutes of common sense and ten thousand years of no paranoia! Details of exactly how to do that are linked below. You'll need to re-educate yourself out of the deliberately perpetuated Beer Joint Baritone delusions and into the real world of phonograph records. And EDUCATION in those realities is the key. - The damned lies of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC notwithstanding!
On a different level of the subject of Education: Nothing beats a good education, and that includes music, but having a Degree in Music doesn't guarantee a Recording Contract. It might guarantee a license to TEACH, but if you're thinking of a Music Career as a performer, as opposed to being a Conductor, then a Degree in Music is all but worthless. And you're going to have to make a financial investment to be in the Business of being a Recording Artist. - The damned lies of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC notwithstanding!
Publishing is FREE to songwriters! That's it! The entire freebie in existence. But being a songwriter does not entitle you to a FREE recording contract - and neither does anything else! If you contact the damned liars at ASCAP, BMI or SESAC, and ask about any monetary investment in music: they'll tell you that "spending any money is paying for publishing" - knowing damned well that being your own Executive Producer is not! NEVER pay a publisher! Not for 'lead sheets', not for 'better demos', not for anything else a Publisher needs or has to do to exploit a song!
And NEVER believe a god-damned thing the lying thieves at ASCAP, BMI or SESAC say about anything or anyone concerned with Recorded Music! They'll tell any lie, endorse any Beer Joint Baritone delusion, defame any honest offer, or commit virtually any other damnable act necessary to keep YOU or anyone else not in their respective 'Pay' or 'Pittance' Cliques out of this best-of-all businesses.
Even so, when any Record Company fronts any money - whether for recording (including demos), promotion, concert tours, whatever - each and every penny is taken out of the Artist's earnings with interest before the Artist is paid one red cent! And the entire debt must be repaid in full before the contract will expire. It's called "charge back" and there are no front money contracts without it! - The damned lies of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC notwithstanding!