| Title: | MUSIC V4 |
| Notice: | New Noters please read Note 1.*, Mod = someone else |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Wed Oct 09 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Mar 12 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 762 |
| Total number of notes: | 18706 |
I'm just a little curious... Does anyone in this conference
have real "personal success story" in the struggle to get a
record contract on a major label? I'm about to start the
"demo-tape shuffle" and I'm looking for some voices of
experience.
merci,
douglas
ps: Cross-posted in Music_making
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| 247.1 | NEMAIL::MERCIER | Do you hear the Pig?? | Mon Jun 15 1992 13:59 | 10 | |
My band CoNtaGioUs is currently raising some interest with a couple
of Independent Labels. Ill let you know how it progress's. Do you
have a lawyer shopping the tape for you?? If not, there are certain
labels that will accept un-solicited material. IMO I would say that
packaging is very important.....A&R people see alot of tapes and
probably dont listen to half of them....make yourself standout above
the rest
Good Luck!
Bob
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| 247.2 | is a label required ? | PBST::MUNNS | Thu Aug 06 1992 18:30 | 9 | |
Why go with a label ? You can approach a disc or tape manufacturer
with $'s and have them stamp out thousands of copies. I suppose that
a label can promote your material and handle the supply chain. Can
an individual do this alone (provide promotional material and
CD/cassette to local retailers, ...) ?
The International Buyers Guide, in your public library, has
names/numbers of manufacturers. For $3K you can have > 1K discs +
inserts, at least for all your friends...
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