Almost every band has videos. It's a requirement these days. Labels will
often spend more $ on the video than on the album. There are plently of
uses for videos besides MTV, not least of which is MTV in other
countries besides america.
-CF
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> From: idm-owner@hyperreal.com [SMTP:idm-owner@hyperreal.com] On Behalf
> Of random junk
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 1997 3:45 PM
> To: IDM List
> Subject: RE: (idm) MTV
>
>
> On 09-Mar-97 Jeremy Meyers wrote:
> >Whatever MTV do, they wont be able to exploit the "underground" dance
> scene
> >since 99.99% of all the tunes have no videos (unless MTV wants to run
> test
> >pattern and play the songs) so I don't think we have to worry about
> that.
>
> dance labels are falling over themselves in a rush to get videos ready
> now that
> MTV is welcoming them. i've had a few labels already bug me about
> getting a
> video done...
>
> Jon Drukman
> jsd@gamespot.com
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