Any Success Stories Here?

Regarding Kid Rock, he has had his deal about nine years, but they delayed the release because of fear people would think he was another Vanilla Ice. He would have lost that deal if everybody they played his stuff for hadn't been really impressed. They knew he was going to break when the time was right.

"Mother's Day Out" was from Clarksville, TN and had their deal sewn up long before Crossroads. Conferences always try to take credit for showcasing artists getting a deal, but the deals are usually done well before the event takes place.

David Hooper
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If Mothers(Muthas?) Day out is from Tennesee then their moms drove them a long way every day to grow up in Batesville, Arkansas. And I was there when they were approached Karen DuMonde from EMI records. They hardley had their deal "sewn up" since Crossroads was their FIRST gig. My band opened for them at their second gig and eventually I was approached about joining the band to replace their old guitarist.
I think you might be confused.
 
You're right. I'm thinking about "Every Mother's Nightmare."

I know the band you are speaking of though. They were pretty young, weren't they?

Their success (if you can call it that) is one of those things that keeps wannabe bands doing crazy things like moving out to LA with no plan.

For every Axl Rose, there are 100,000 guys who die trying.

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Yeah, they were really young. Their Bassist was 14 and had to be put in "home school" so he could go on tour.
They were young and cute with little talent or musical ability... The record company rewrote all of their songs for 'em and told them not to write anything funky or heavy and tried to mold them into a marketable clean-cut youth band... It backfired miserably and they never sold an album...
 
KInd of a trailer-trash version of Silverchair, actually. The guys in the band asked me to think about joing cause when they were in the studio, their producer kept changing the songs around and their guitarist kept screwing up the songs live cause he couldn't remember the changes.
The record company nixed that idea cause I didn't fit their clean cut image... I wasn't about to do it anyway cause I was in a smokin' band at the time called "Nest of Saws" in Little Rock.
 
S8-N, give yourself some more credit...you don't fit anyone's image of anything!

You are a true original.
 
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