RE: Dirk's Wet Nappies

From: Richard Hawkins (rhawkins@stark.co.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 17:25:50 MET DST

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    Steve,

    You're probably right that they work on the same financial basis, I was
    trying to distinguish between those who want to share good music and those
    who are only interested in shifting units.

    In theory, the internet should remove the distribution cost but personally I
    would want CD-quality and I don't want to sit at a PC to listen to it. And
    how would a particular artist stand out from the thousands of others selling
    in cyberspace? Think how much some of the major dot coms are spending on
    advertising just so people will come to their site in the first place.

    Would we end up with the situation where the most well known mp3 sites are
    full of songs by Garth Brooks, Puff Daddy and Christina Aguilera like some
    kind of internet MTV? I would love to be able to preview more tunes but I
    find alot of the stuff I'm after isn't carried by the likes of CDNow and the
    smaller sites which do carry it do not provide sound samples.

    Apologies for this ramble, I'd love to see the right artists getting the
    royalties that they truly deserve but I have a feeling that the sharks will
    still be around when the dust settles.

    Richard

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Steve Catanzaro [mailto:stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com]
    Sent: 27 April 2000 15:58
    To: Richard Hawkins; Acid jazz list
    Subject: Re: Dirk's Wet Nappies

    ? By
    > the way, do Talkin Loud, Ubiquity, Compost... come into the record labels
    =
    > BAD equation? The music world is full of sharks but don't confuse them
    with
    > the dolphins ( dodgy analogy, I know).
    >

    Well, I'd almost agree with that...except I've never seen a Talkin' Loud or
    Ubiquity contract.

    I can tell you I worked with Dave Pike, who has released for Ubiquity... and
    he was broker than a mo fo.... I can tell you that Ubiquity is one of the
    few labels that puts out sample CD's (i.e., solo drum breaks and what not)
    and still makes you negotiate with royalties for them... most of the
    companies that do that set them out as license free.

    But aside from that, if they conform to the standard practice... i.e, paying
    musicians 8-12 cents on the dollar, then at best, they're dolphins with
    really really sharp teeth.



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