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Vol. 2: Iss. 4| B# Newsletter | May, 2001| ISSN 1533-6522

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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Editor's Blurb

2. B# RoundTable Discussion List

3. Music Career Stuff (Necessary Evils)

4. "A Gift?"

By Mark Baxter

5. "How Often Should I/We Play At Home?"

By Tim Sweeney

6. "Out-takes From People You Know"

By Chris Knab

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1. Editor's Blurb:


Hi! It's May, 2001 as we bring you an "abbreviated"
and abnormally late issue of the "B# Newsletter" this
month due to time constraints. Known for its vast
content, we are only able to bring you 73 pages of
content in this issue...

Hey! Wait a minute! Before you UN-subscribe, you
should know that I'm only kidding...it's only 69 pages. :-)
And, I would like to welcome all new subscribers, as
well as hope that you have enjoyed any previous
issues you have had an opportunity to review thus far.

Also, I informed several discussion lists that a
special treat by writer Chris Knab, would be in
store for them in this particular issue, which is Chris'
own collection of quotes he has acquired over the
years from some of the most famous people in the
entertainment business and, primarily, the music
industry.

Allowing the collection to remain in its au naturel
state and unguarded, I wish to serve notice, here
and now, that as my good and long-time trusted
friend, Mr. Spock, would say...

"Captain, it is highly illogical that there are a few
'colorful metaphors' contained within the collection,
presenting interesting schematics for design of a
new dilithium crystal chamber."

Dr. McCoy: "He's a writer, Mr. Spock! Not a
language cop!"

Oh, sorry for the momentary detour, as I still harbor
regrets regarding the cancellation of the original
"Star Trek" series. In any event, brace yourself as
Mr. Knab's trip down memory lane is the 3rd and
final batter up.

Seriously though, we only have 3 articles in this
issue due to our being in the midst of a *very*
successful PRE-promotion campaign for our first
artist, "Brizite," who will be released worldwide in
just a few weeks.

And, when we say "worldwide,"we're not just playing
on words by using the Internet as the assumption...
we are, literally, speaking worldwide offline.

During this initial PRE-promotion campaign, we
have already had almost 200 radio/press media
responses to get the CD the second it comes
from the plant, and as the responses seem to
have no end in sight, we could not be happier.

I've mentioned the amazing value of PRE-promotion
campaigns in some of my articles because it's like
having a $aving$ account...you've already built up a
core of media sources ahead of time who will "go
on the record," which is an old radio promotion term
that simply means that the media will begin airing it
and granting interviews/reviews as soon as it hits
their desks.

This great response is largely due to a very
successful proactive "street promotion" we did in
Houston recently, targeting the 15-25-year-old market,
since our first artist is a very unique Hip Hop/RAP
artist. The media got wind of it and, as they say in
Albania, Romania, and Angola, "the rest is history."

And, speaking of the RAP genre, a strong indicator
that I have, obviously, been spending far too much
time in the genre for my own good, is my recent
discovery of 2 online rhyming dictionaries that might
be of benefit to anyone; rapper, writer, or poet, who
struggles with discovering and executing those
oh-so-perfectly matching 1st & 3rd, or, 2nd & 4th lines.
Check them out at: http://www.rhymezone.com/ and
http://www.writeexpress.com/online.html

So, wish us luck with it, will ya? We're trying to, at
least, do HALF of what our fellow Houstonians,
"Destiny's Child," have already done in blazing the
trail in the industry for the 'Bayou City', which is no
small feat. You can read news releases on our
flagship artist at the news wire web sites of
http://www.prweb.com/releases/?00000024444 and
http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=21235,
respectively.

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4. "A Gift?"

By Mark Baxter


Imagine a friend showing up at your apartment with a
horse and says that, because you love to ride, he
decided to buy you the four-year-old filly as a gift. He
smiles proudly, hands you the reins, and leaves. You
are now the owner of a half-ton, grain-munching, farm
animal. As the horse stands in your hallway shuffling
on its hooves, it occurs to you that your friend is crazy.

A gift? Apparently, your friend assumed that you would
be completely willing to make all the necessary sacrifices
required to maintain this gift. As absurd as this seems,
we tend to make similar assumptions when it comes to
singing.

Many people view singing as a gift. I agree. Singing is
one of the many joys of life. What I don't agree with, is
the notion that only those who were born with this gift
were meant to sing. It shouldn't be surprising that this
line of thinking is most popular among two groups of
people: those who sing easily, and those who hate to
practice.

It's hard for born singers, who for the most part simply
open their mouths and sing beautifully, to relate to those
of us troubled with pitch, projection and tone. Yet, ease
of singing does not mean it's easy to be a singer. There
is still work involved. Just as with a horse, taking the
voice out for a run takes more preparation than some
would expect. If a natural ability is not combined with a
love of singing, the package is incomplete.

Most troublesome to would-be singers are the
practice-haters. Unlike natural singers, who are simply
unsympathetic, practice-haters feel the need to pull the
reins in on all who dare improve on what God or Mother
Nature didn't finish. It's a classic case of misery loves
company. Rather than apply some effort towards
change, they let themselves off the hook by claiming to
be saddled by poor genetics.

Be warned! It will be difficult to embark on a journey of
vocal improvement if you have roommates, bandmates,
parents, or siblings who are members of this group.
They will cite your current disabilities as evidence that
you were not meant to sing. Forgive these pessimists,
for they know not what they say.

Singing is a gift you give yourself. There is no panel of
judges out there awarding you permission to sing. You
can either let your voice be heard, or not; ability doesn't
have to be a factor. Although you can't return your larynx
to the music store if you don't like the way it performs,
any voice can be trained.

Think of it as learning to ride a horse. At first you may
have very little command. In time, though, you can
develop a feel, a relationship with singing that will allow
you full control. It is extremely rewarding to corral what
was first perceived as unruly into an obedient show-
horse of a voice, but you have to put in the time.

Don't be fooled by the illusion that talent comes easily.
We love to think of our idols as being other-worldly; as
having a free ride. Michaelangelo once said that if the
general public knew how hard he labored on each
piece, it would diminish the magic of his work. In other
words, without sweating the details, there would be no
Luciano Pavorotti, Ella Fitzgerald, Tiger Woods, or
Michael Jordan.

While it's easy to feel humbled in comparison to the
greats, don't count yourself out. We were all given the
same gift at birth -- it's called life. What we do with this
gift is what defines us. If you feel you have singing in
your soul, then let it run free. Don't worry about standing
out from the pack; having the courage to follow your
heart is what makes you a horse of a different color.
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Editor's Note: Whether Mark Baxter is a well-
experienced horseman, or not, is yet to be seen.
However, one thing is for certain...and, that is, he is
one of the professional music industry's leading
voice coaches to Grammy recording artists in
America . And, he has the clients to prove it. See
his highly informative web site at
http://www.voicelesson.com.

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5. "How Often Should I/We Play At Home"

By Tim Sweeney


"My band seems to have this ongoing discussion,
(more like an argument), about how many times per
month we should play in our home town. Friends in
other bands advise us not to play in town more than
twice per month. According to them, we will "burn out
our fans." But, I feel they are wrong and we should
play as much as we can. What's the right answer?"

The answer to this ongoing question, is to try to play
in your home market between 2-4 times a month. But,
instead of just leaving you with that thought, lets explore
the answer so you can have a full understanding of why
this is the right number.

As I have always preached, your career needs to be
anchored on your live shows, and it needs to start in
your home market, especially since your live shows
and the "proper" pre-show promotion will be 75% of
all your future sales.

Your home market needs to be a large metropolitan
city near you, or one that you are living in that, preferably,
has over 1 million residents. If not, focus on the largest
metropolitan city in your state that has at least 500,000
people. With that in mind, lets get down to business.

Artists will quickly say, "Don't play more than a couple
times a month because you will burn out your mailing
list." They are right! If your primary focus for promoting
your next show is to merely let your mailing list know,
then this is true...your existing fans will become tired of
being promoted to, especially if they have come to a
couple of your shows in the past and have bought your
CD. You can bet they are "burnt out" by your ongoing
requests for them to come to your future shows.

Most artists, however, do not think creatively when
promoting their next show. They make the mistakes of
handing out flyers, instead of sample tapes or sample
CDs, or spending hundreds of dollars on newspaper or
magazine advertisements that no one can hear their
music through. So, lets start from scratch.

Lets use Los Angeles as the major market that you live
in. LA itself is approximately 90 miles in size (counting
in the smaller cities around it). This is important to know
because of the following reasons...

Music fans who go out to live shows will generally stay
in their "own area" when it comes time to see an
independent artist (If it is a major, established artist,
who rarely plays in the area, fans will travel farther to see
them). One of the primary reasons people stick close to
home is the issue of drinking and driving.

Research has shown that people feel they can have a
couple of drinks (or more) and safely drive home if it's
only 2 or 3 miles away. Most people, as you can
imagine, don't have a desire to be on "Cops," or the
nightly news, with the police chasing them down the
freeway. Wrong in their thinking about drinking and
driving, or not, that's one of the main reasons people
don't drive 20 or 30 miles to your future shows.

However, that brings up a good point for us to talk
about. If people, generally, won't drive more than a few
miles to go to a show, doesn't that mean you will have
different audiences at each show? That's right.

Using LA, for an example, even though Santa Monica
and West Hollywood are right next to each other, people
from the respective areas "hate to drive" 5-10 miles.
Beside the concerns about drinking and driving, they
complain about finding parking and the "safety" of each
other's respective areas.

So, doesn't this mean, since there are clubs spread
throughout the major market you live in, that you should
play 2 or 3 times a week all over the city? No. The
reason I suggest 2-4 times a month has nothing to do
with people on your existing list, who have come to past
shows and already bought your CD. It is, alternatively,
based upon allowing yourself enough time to "effectively"
pre-promote your shows.

Creating the sample tapes and CDs, doing your
market research on the targeted areas around the club,
where your potential fans hang out and shop, allowing
for the time to hand out the 200-300 tapes or CDs
minimum, will mean that you are going to need to
generate new fans, plus the extra time, you will need to
"redesign" the club for your show.

If you find that you can do a couple of shows in the
southern part of your city, and 1 or 2 shows in the North,
East, or West and adequately promote them, you can
consider 4 to 6 shows per month.

Keep in mind that your city is a big place, with over a
million people. You are not going to get the same
people at your next show unless you invite them. Even
though your city may seem limited in places to play, or
even geographically on the map, don't let your mind
become "limited" on what's available to you.
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Editor's Note: Tim Sweeney is the best-selling author
of a cassette series titled, "The Living Room Sessions,"
a series that will instruct you, not only on conducting
effective market research for your live shows, but also
how to generate a new larger fan base in a shorter
amount of time. Web Site:http://www.tsamusic.com.

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6. "Out-takes from People You Know"

By Chris Knab


Over the years, I have collected various quotes I
found in magazines, books, email messages,
and the Internet. For anyone wanting to learn about
the business of music, reviewing these quotes will be
equivalent to earning a college education. Enjoy...??

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"I never met an asshole in the record business I didn't
like." - Irving Azoff

"We live in an age of music for people who don't like
music. The record industry discovered some time ago
that there aren't that many people who actually like
music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the
very least, they don't need it. They discovered if they
could sell music to a lot of those people, they could
sell a lot more records." - T Bone Burnett

"The whole music business in the United States is
based on numbers, based on unit sales, and not on
quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype,
and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving
presents of large packages of dollars to play records
on the air." - Frank Zappa

"Modern music is people who can't think signing
artists who can't write songs to make records for
people who can't hear." - Frank Zappa

"Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's
interesting." - Dennis Hopper (Actor)

"Just because you can record, doesn't mean you
should." - Christopher Knab (yep, the author himself)

"Independent labels take nothing and make something
out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to
make more out of it." - Tom Silverman (Tommy Boy Records)

"When you hear my records today...you hear a vanilla
sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was
trying to imitate what I heard." - Pat Boone

"You go through stages where you wonder whether
you are Christ, or just looking for him." - David Bowie

"You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get
the piss taken out of you." - Melanie B, "Spice Girls"

"Actually, I don't know if honesty is a strength or some
kind of weakness." - Ani DeFranco

"That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody
who cares about music." - Michael Penn, musician

"It's magazines like "HITS" that have to label things."
- Nina Gordon/"Veruca Salt"

"I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else,
but I try to keep something for myself...I don't kiss
the world's ass." - Freedy Johnston

"Anybody that forms a group, writes songs, and
releases records and says they don't care if people
like them, are complete liars."
- James Dean Bradfield, Manic St. Preachers

"I mean, the Cranberries could go on and take a shit,
and the people would probably love it." - Jon Spencer

"Music is a big machine that would go on with or
without me." - Rob Thomas, Matchbox 20

"Music should be about bastardization." - John McCrae/"Cake"

"Rap fans are quick to forget what they appreciated
just last year." - Trugoy, De La Soul

"In this business, the first rule is, never act out of
desperation, because there is always someone out
there looking to sucker you." - Kevin Czinger, Volcano
Entertainment Founder

"In the music business, bigger is not necessarily
better. In fact, I believe smaller is actually better."
- Chuck Kaye, Dreamworks, SBK Publishing

"When we had a record blow up, we really knew how
to put it through its paces. It wasn't groping through a
voyage of discovery." - Steve Vining/Windham Hill

"To sustain hatred, is a very difficult thing to do, year
after year. It's exhausting." - Nick Cave, Musician

"The problem with alternative radio, is that it has no
fiber at all, and is giving itself it's own enema."
- Mike Halloran, former KUPR PD

"The hardest thing in the world to do in this business, is
start a band nobody's heard of." -
- Tom Whalley, Interscope Records

"If we do our job...Music's not black or white, it's
green."
- Jim Caparro, PGD

"Going to radio with a rap record, prior to going to the
consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend."
- Lyor Cohen, Def Jam/RAL

"There would be no new school without the old school."
- Vivian Scott/Epic Records

"Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the
legacy that was important." - Barry Gordy/Motown

"Our whole preconception will be what's going to make
the kid push our button and not someone else's."
- Bruce Kirland/Capitol Records

"We'll take advantage of the changes going on in the
music business because we're lean and mean."
- Miles Copeland/IRS Records

"That's the shame about Miles Copeland...he's evil,
but he's got a heart of gold."
- Dave Wakeling, General Public

"If this company is about anything, it's about discipline
and staying focused." - Jimmy Iovine, Interscope Records

"We're starting to climb. I've got my fingers crossed,
my toes crossed, my testicles crossed...and, it's painful
too, I might add." - Rick Michaels, WENZ Radio

"We are the Beavis and Butt-head generation, whether
we want to recognize it or not."
- Billy Corgan/Smashing Pumpkins

"People don't buy plastic and paper...they buy
emotions." - Scott Young/Wherehouse Entertainment

"You can't control the public from itself. If they get good
tickets, they scalp them. If they get bad tickets, they
bitch." - Fred Rosen, Ticketmaster

"People don't want to see a whole lot of crap, any more
than they want to see one piece of crap." - Wayne Forte, ITC

"The moment you have the promotion department going
one way, and the marketing department the other, you're
fucked." - Larry Stessell/Mercury Records

"American music is something the rest of the world
wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for
it." - Jason Berman/RIAA

"I've probably put together more deals backstage at
concerts than by telephone."
- Michael Lippman, Lippman Ent.

"You've got to feel comfortable with people telling you
your shit stinks." - Andre Harrell, Uptown Entertainment

" I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects
you."
- Dick Clark

"My bass player came up to me and said, "Sarah, when
are you going to start being a bitch?" And I said, "That's
why I have a record company." - Sarah McLachlan

"I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing
anything." - Rick Rubin, Def American

"I hate to say this, but at the time (late 70's), it was like
the smart people liked punk, and the dumb people liked
'Journey'." - Howie Klein/Reprise Records

"Kill all the major record company presidents."
- Howie Klein, 1978... KSAN/"The Outcaste Hour"

"I've made hundreds of legendary records that people
talk about that didn't sell." - Jerry Wexler

"Without freedom of expression, good taste means
nothing." - Neil Young

"I think anyone with less than 10 years experience in
this business starting his own label, is looking to create
a disaster." - Russ Regan/Quality Records

"Listen, the easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of
her, is to write a song about her." - David Crosby

"I love sinking my teeth into things." - Samantha Fox

"When we make a decision on which group to sign, we
don't foresee a goddamn thing."
- Cliff Bernstein/Q Prime Management

"Without music, the greatest marketing plans in the whole
world don't mean shit." - Eddie Rosenblatt/Geffen Recs.

"Without marketing plans, the greatest music in the whole
world don't mean shit." - Chris Knab (he strikes again)

"Who could have dreamed in 1965, that the alternative
society would eventually multiply to such extraordinary
proportions, that it becomes our mainstream."
- Bill Graham

"I want to hear the word `cherish' about 5 times."
- Clive Davis, Arista Records (listening back to an "Air
Supply" song during a mixdown in the studio)

"If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy
and increase consumer demand, there must be hope
for music." - Gary Arnold, Merchandising Mgr./Best Buy

"So many record companies turned me down, they said
I sounded like a Chipmunk." - Brandy

"Being a manager or agent, is similar to renting an
apartment. Having a record company, is like owning a
home." - Rob Kahane/Trauma Records

"I think the second you feel you've gotten somewhere,
you're nowhere." - Michael Goldstone, VP A&R/Epic

"You're a local band until you get a record contract,
then all of a sudden, Bruce Springsteen is your
competition. - Sammy Llana/"The Bodeans"

"I don't listen to music...I hate all music." - Johnny
Rotten

"I don't think anybody steals anything...all of us
borrow."
- B B King

"He took my music, but he gave me my name."
- Muddy Waters on Mick Jagger

"If KISS is a dinosaur, damn straight I'd rather be that
than a mouse." - Gene Simmons/"KISS"

"We're the McDonalds of Rock. We're always there to
satisfy, and a billion served." - Paul Stanley/KISS

"Don't try to explain it...just sell it." - Colonel Tom
Parker

"The way I see it, Rock n' Roll is folk music." - Robert
Plant

"I wish there had been a music business 101 course I
could have taken." - Kurt Cobain
(so do we, Kurt...so do we...)

"Rock n' Roll does for music, what a motorcycle club at
full throttle, does for a quiet afternoon. The results bear
passing resemblance to Hitler mass meetings."
- "Time Magazine"/1956

"Rock n' Roll is poison put to sound." - Pablo Casals

"In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want
you to die." - David Geffen

"I sent a demo of the band, "Confederate Fagg," to an
A&R friend at Sony. I asked him what he thought. He
said, "Don't know yet. Let me see what my boss thinks."
- Dave: Kathoyd <= (Dave Hooper, is that you? :-)

"There are more letters in the word, `business', than
there are in the word `music'." - Anonymous

"Consumers have musical choice? What musical
choice? In our society, we choose only from what we
are given to choose from, and that choice is determined
by 5 major media corporations who control the exposure
outlets that consumers depend on for their entertainment."
- Chris Knab

"Music executives need to start thinking less like men,
and more like women. As men, we tend to believe
more in selling someone something for $15, and
transferring it to their possession without ever learning
their names. Women understand the value of starting a
relationship that never ends. There's too many men in
our business.'' - Anonymous

"If you are still at the same point you were after six albums,
and all of them came out on a major label, I don't want to
hear about how 'the label didn't understand us,' or 'our
management didn't make us a priority.' If after that time
you are still at the same level, either you suck, or people
do not like you." - Anonymous

"Record companies like to make money, and that is
their only goal. They do not care about the content that
they sell - they care about maximizing their profits. It is
because of this that, I hate record companies with the
same passion that I hate venture capitalists.

The record companies do not try to foster a creative
environment which rewards musicians who serve their
respective niche, but create an environment which
attempts to market a small amount of music to the
largest audience possible. It is more profitable for the
record company to sell a few decent records in bulk,
than to have a vast array of cult hits that sell decently."
- Numair Faraz

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Vol. 2: Iss. 4| B# Newsletter | May, 2001| ISSN 1533-6522
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