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Feb 9 2008, 12:07 PM
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To get signed today you must really deliver something EXTRA. It must be something big and great sounding and technically well played. Browsing the guitarists on myspace i found hundreds of guys who really CAN play so the competition is enormous. Self-advertising and self-selling stuff is the way to go in my opinion.
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Feb 9 2008, 01:18 PM
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But Pavel you can't self advertise and self sell if you don't have money and connections that record labels provide man. That's what they are for. Record label publish you cd and do all the work to get it sold, cause they need the money too. It is hard to get to the labels, but it is even harder to do it yourself trust me.
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Feb 9 2008, 01:32 PM
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Having Internet solves half of the problems. Advertising on internet is too simple. If you take Record Labels than you get in another portion of troubles because a label wants to OWN you. They don't need your music - they want to OWN you from scratch so in the end they earn 90% and you earn 10% out of your music.
If you ask me - no, thank you! I wrote it and i'm not selling cheap just because i want to be in music industry. Muris is doing just fine without a record label and so do thousands of guitarists. If you have a BAND than it's a bit different but being a SOLO musician is a different story. I don't want a band - i want to write and produce my music alone where nobody will tell me what to do and what not to do. If you watch Dream Theater's Bonus DVD (i think it is from "Live In Budokan") they tell their story from the beginning and record labels almost destroyed them during years. It also depends what label you get signed because some of them will do their job and some will just sign you and forget about you. It's a really tough question and you should not just accept ANY deal that gets in your way because you might get in major troubles. EDIT: selling today is pretty simple using online CD sales like mp3 downloads, whole album downloads and similar stuff. This post has been edited by Pavel: Feb 9 2008, 01:33 PM -------------------- "It isn't how many years you have been playing, it's how many hours." -- Prashant Aswani "PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!" -- Michael Angelo Batio Check out my video lessons and instructor board! |
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Feb 9 2008, 02:18 PM
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At least now a days we have internet, so hopefully a good band will one day be able to bypass all this non-sense called music industry.
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Feb 9 2008, 06:25 PM
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I read several people say here that there's Internet today whick gives good possibilities and that's the way to go. I disagree, sure it makes things easier... for hundereds of thousands of bands and solo shredders it does.
The downside to that is quite big and you really have to stick out to get noticed. While a huge record lable can offer commercial, play lists on the radio channels and more to that while would of course help both them and the artist. So while we're drowning in internet music, youtube etc the ones who break are discovered and supported by record lables. And certainly they will not do it for free, there's two sides of a coin here but my supportive side to their work is that they take a risk by promoting a record or an artist so of course they must earn money and own the rights to a contract. They are not blessed angles doing it for free and for amusement. This post has been edited by MickeM: Feb 9 2008, 06:29 PM -------------------- My bands homepage
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Feb 9 2008, 06:36 PM
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I'm an active member on Outworld's forum (for those who don't know -> that's a heavy/prog metal band of guitar master Rusty Cooley) and they have their new album ready and recorded a demo of it. Guess what --- they can't find a record label -> how stupid is that???
They have their first album on Replica Records but the label did nothing for them so they are not making the second album on that label. They are killer players and musicians and can't get signed --> so much about labels! -------------------- "It isn't how many years you have been playing, it's how many hours." -- Prashant Aswani "PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!" -- Michael Angelo Batio Check out my video lessons and instructor board! |
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Feb 9 2008, 06:39 PM
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QUOTE (MickeM @ Feb 9 2008, 06:25 PM)  I read several people say here that there's Internet today whick gives good possibilities and that's the way to go. I disagree, sure it makes things easier... for hundereds of thousands of bands and solo shredders it does. The downside to that is quite big and you really have to stick out to get noticed. While a huge record lable can offer commercial, play lists on the radio channels and more to that while would of course help both them and the artist. So while we're drowning in internet music, youtube etc the ones who break are discovered and supported by record lables. And certainly they will not do it for free, there's two sides of a coin here but my supportive side to their work is that they take a risk by promoting a record or an artist so of course they must earn money and own the rights to a contract. They are not blessed angles doing it for free and for amusement. Yeah i agree about that BUT we are talking about the 'how to start' thingy....i sure can't pay for promotion so i have to START with internet. Label's managers have their people searching internet for upcoming musicians so it is a way to start for sure 
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Feb 9 2008, 07:41 PM
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QUOTE (Nemanja @ Feb 9 2008, 07:12 PM) ther is an example...young sebian girl(blues)send trough the internet here demo tapes I think in Sweaden...or Norway....and they sad:come here wright know we will pay you what you want..just come....so she went...and now she publish for the major labels..............and yeh her name is Ana Popovic.....so any thing is posible.. Yeah that's exactly what i mean - you can start advertising through internet and get attention from a record label, and also you can easily send your CD to ANY record label just to try if you can get their interest
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Feb 9 2008, 07:55 PM
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QUOTE (Nemanja @ Feb 9 2008, 07:47 PM) from that point of view yuo are right 100%...and that shoud be taken in options...I know I will.....  Yeah i am glad i finally managed to make it clear - i guess i put it wrong together in my first post so i brought some confusion in!
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Feb 9 2008, 10:55 PM
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QUOTE (Pavel @ Feb 9 2008, 06:39 PM) Yeah i agree about that BUT we are talking about the 'how to start' thingy....i sure can't pay for promotion so i have to START with internet. Label's managers have their people searching internet for upcoming musicians so it is a way to start for sure Yes true -------------------- My bands homepage
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