Once the jury was out and back with the verdict then time to put the wheels in motion. Was it good enough? If all were agreed about the finished product the planning would begin. They’d have ideas about a single , they would decide on the order of the tracks and start to engage in [...]
On February - 17 - 2010
On February - 13 - 2010
This all started with the question, ‘What makes a great album.’ I can only offer my own conclusion because if I ever went in a recording studio I can guarantee one thing, that I wouldn’t come out with a great album. I can’t play or sing, maybe a great spoken word album but then again [...]
On September - 15 - 2009
I can’t believe we’re half way through September! And before I know it I’ll be coming up with another dumb ass comment ‘What happened to 2009?’ I shouldn’t complain though, at least I’ve got things to do and probably enough things to do that’ll pre empt the ‘what happened to 2010 extra dumb ass comment.
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On January - 16 - 2009
We need stars, we don’t have them any more and the ones that we do call stars are different, they’re train wrecks, they’re misfits, they’re tortured ‘artists’. But Lindsay, Britney, Madonna even, aren’t tortured like Janis was, Jimi Hendrix or Brian Jones were they are just people craving attention. It doesn’t matter if it’s they [...]
On November - 5 - 2008
Many books have been written about Manchester and they’ll be many more to come. I’m just grateful I spent all my working life in the music business in the 70’s, 80’s and 90′ there and was never tempted to take a job down south. I loved working out on the road, loved starting my promotion [...]
On October - 28 - 2008
Today the artists are doing what the record companies can longer do , or have no desire to do, build careers. It involves work, hard work by dedicated people and there used to be a word for it, artist development.(OK two words) But you still never hear it mentioned anymore by record companies. It gave [...]
On October - 20 - 2008
Who did what to rock and roll indeed? Everyone is to blame, some more than others. Maybe the one area where they understood it a little better is touring, it seems to be thriving. It shows that while the record business suffers the music business doesn’t. Let’s begin by taking a look at record companies and [...]
