At 12:44 PM -0500 6/18/00, Dirk van den Heuvel wrote:
>Well I've mainly worked in distribution not at labels, but I can say that
>Blink 182 (one of the bands at my former employer Cargo Records) made in
>excess of 350,000 (that's just royalties, not mechanicals or publishing
>either) BEFORE their last record came out. I don't think they're doing badly
>at all...
Okay, sure, some folks win in the record contract sweepstakes. And
if you've got your smarts (& lawyers) about you, you can turn your
talent into $$ even if you got stuck w/, say, an early TLC-style
contract. I don't know how much these are the exceptions to the
rule, but when enough negative press has been generated (and when
you've watched enough episodes of Behind the Music to know that the
companies WILL bone everyone who doesn't maintain a completely
hardass, tough-as-nails biz attitude-- which is not something I
necessarily want my favorite musicians to have to cultivate-- just
becauses they can), then even the layman can assume that something is
rotten w/the S.O.B. of the music biz.
--Jason Witherspoon ICQ #62837760
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