Your problem might lie elsewhere.
royal trux were on a major label, given major
promotion, and lost major cash for Virgin. when they
dropped Virgin, Drag City picked them up although
yeah they did get bashed critically for their albums
on virgin.
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On Friday, June 18, 2004, at 07:19 PM, Glowdot Dot Com wrote:
quoted 56 lines To answer your first question, please re-read what I originally wrote.
> To answer your first question, please re-read what I originally wrote.
> I
> completely lost whatever manufactured "hip-cred" I had earned for
> myself,
> which is not, I suppose, what smaller labels want to hear.
>
> As for the second question: I don't want to sound abrasive here, but I
> was
> signed to release through the largest record distributor in the world.
> I
> think I know (or at least knew) what I was doing. I have management,
> PR and
> even a few commercials for ca$h under my belt. I did not send out 4-5
> demos
> and wait for the chicks to line up. I have been professionally
> writing and
> producing -- making money at it -- for 4 years.
>
> For whatever reason, I am in the void: not commercial enough for the
> bigs
> (which, as I was told by those guys, meant "not trance") and too
> tainted by
> exposure for the smaller labels.
>
> Whatever. Like I said, it is what it is. If I had humbled myself and
> produced the trance album they wanted, I might be rich and up to my
> eyeballs
> in fine foreign women today. As it was, I stood my ground, hoping to
> get
> picked up by a smaller label in the aftermath. Didn't happen.
>
> Rick Strom
> http://www.rick-strom.com
> http://www.glowdot.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ishay Sommer [mailto:IshayS@Radware.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 4:43 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: RE: [idm] Funkadvertising
>
> Why would an indie label negate communication with you because of your
> relation with a big label? did you try enough labels?
>
> (I am talking 400 - 500 here... not just sending 5 demos out and
> waiting for
> the girls to rush by your house with their mouth open...)
>
>
>
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