• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Topic: THE BAND'S ENVIRONEMENT AND DECISIONS.

I rephrase what I wrote. It is a general item concerning bands.

- THE NOSE FOR TALENT. What is "IT." Where, how and why record companies base them to decide to give a contract to a band. Is it a feeling in your belly when you hear them playing. Or the looks? AND ARE THERE STILL TALENT SCOUTS?
It is a calculated risk? EXAMPLE: The Rolling Stones had a keyboard/piano player IAN STEWART, so a co-founder. WHO TAKES THAT HORRIBLE DECISION TO TELL THAT HE DOESN'T FIT IN THE BAND because he would never be a TEEN IDOL? And the fact that he stayed as road manager and piano player AND what happened to the Beatles? A wrong deal?
- RECORD DEALS: when does a band gets a fair deal.
- YOUTUBE: responsible in discovering "fresh blood"

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  • From: Renfrewshire, Scotland
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Re: THE BAND'S ENVIRONEMENT AND DECISIONS.

Sadly I think it's all down to image. A few years ago one of my all time favourite bands released a single under a false name and a video with young good looking chaps in their place. Thay new nobody would want new music by The Alarm (80s band) so they waited to see what would happen. The single entered the top 20 in tyhe charts and The Alarm then revealed themselves and showed the music industry up for what it really is. Image driven. The single them dropped out the charts almost imediately. The single was called 45RPM and you can see The Alarm play it live here....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsdlsSNCFO4

There was talk of making this story into a film!

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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  • From: Bellevue, WA
  • Registered: 2006-06-15
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Re: THE BAND'S ENVIRONEMENT AND DECISIONS.

"The Industry" is almost purely image driven.  That's due to MTV, and "reality television" and modern marketing.   It doesn't matter if you're talented, it matters if you look cool.

Take a look at the army of "Disney Pop" artists out there lipsynching their way through set after set in front of throngs of tweeners.  It's self evident.

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  • Registered: 2007-07-18
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Re: THE BAND'S ENVIRONEMENT AND DECISIONS.

Yeah, Im not famous cuz I aint pretty.

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