tone_aot said:
A ment, how do you send them to artists and managers? I don't know how to contact the big names. In the music powers book, they got alot of contacts but i don't know how to go about using them.
To be honest I don't really know...
I've always been a firm believer in being at the right place at the right time and or networking.
For instance down here in New Orleans, the studio I used to record at was where Mystikal, Lenny Kravitz, George Clinton and a few other big names used to record. The engineer produced a lot of Mystikals, Juvenilles and a lot of other local hits so he knew a lot of managers, artist and label owners. He sent one of my CD's off to Jive Records and Def Jam a few years ago (to no avail though..lol). So I would say just networking, find out who knows who and use your talk game from there and no matter who it is never come off cocky, there's already a lot of ego's in the music biz...lol
And as far as being in the right place at the right time, that's just unpredictable. I met Lil Wayne at a restaraunt here in New Orleans, I was just sitting outside the restaraunt smoking and him and some of his boys were waiting for vallet to bring his car around. He was actually decent enough to start a conversation with me about the food there LOL. But I didn't have a CD on me at the time or a website. I met Queen Latifah out of all places at a shooting range down here while she was filming Last Holiday a few years ago. We were the only ones there since it was about to close, I didn't have a legitiment CD then either since it was all scratched up but I gave it to her anyways knowing it would probably skip like hell. (For the record, she looks more like a dude than me without the make-up and hair...lol )
My advice to everyone is KEEP atleas 1 working CD on you at all times, you never know who's gonna be where.