Where's Harvey?

[xtremedb]

Thanks Taylor… I’ve been going at it pretty hard in my spare time. If you have any advice, or would like to see something up there, please let me know… brad@just-for-musicians.com
BTW, I really want to post Steve Albini’s famous article up there. It’s one of my favorites. Does anyone know where I can get in touch with him to get permission to use it.

PS… Harvey, I had a real nice guy contact me about a console I was selling. I’m sending him your way if you haven’t already found a buyer for those two boards

Brad

 

[Tom Cram]

Albini

The Albini article is posted on the Mercenary Audio website for all to enjoy.

Tom Cram
dbx Senior Technical Support
(801) 568-7530
tcram@dbxpro.com

 

[MrZekeMan]

I had read that article before. It's amazing that the artist receives so little of the enrichment from the total profit. It's immoral. They can cry all they want about the label being the one taking all the risk. It's just plain old fashioned greed for the label to take 3/4 of a million in profit and leave the band members with nothing.

 

[xtremedb]

The label may take all the pure economic risk, but time is money and those guys are out there working their asses off for $20 a day.

PS. I’ve seen the article at Mercenary, but it’s illegal and unethical to cut and paste something like that (IMO). I need to get in touch w/someone who can give me permission in an email, etc. to post it on my site.

Thanks

Brad Gallagher
http://www.just-for-musicians.com/

 

[MrZekeMan]

The label may take all the pure economic risk, but time is money and those guys are out there working their asses off for $20 a day.

Yea,

And that's not even mentioning that they are the original owners of the product being sold in most cases. It's their artistic talent that the record companies are robbing them of.

 

[enemyofthesun]

Old Harvey does a great column in a monthly music mag here in dallas called the harderbeat. Its a fairly old school rag written by mostly 80s rock fans but overall its helpful in promoting shows etc.. Point being you can check out his helpful columns at www.harderbeat.com if interested.

 

[MrZekeMan]

enemyofthesun,

Thanks for the link. There's also a nice picture of Harvey sitting behind his console for those who would like to know what the man behind the posts looks like.

Taylor

 

[ausrock]

Been there done that. I actually have Indian Trail on my faves list for reference. Harvey's articles have given my son some new thoughts on things recently......WTG.


Peace...........ChrisO

 

[Harvey Gerst]

I'm blushing.

I'm also surprised anybody reads the damn column, but I continue to type it, every month (for the last five years now).

As long as we're talking about the big bad record companies, wanna hear a surprising statistic? Do you know how many copies the "average" big label release sells?


1,400 copies.

If it weren't for the few records that hit big, most record companies would lose their asses in a NY minute.

 

[Henri Devill]

Harvey, are you on the single Cherish..Very cool!

Don

 

[Harvey Gerst]

No, I was with them when they were known as "The Men". After I left, they changed their name to "The Association" and that's when they recorded "Cherish", a great song written by Terry Kirkman.

 

[JuSumPilgrim]

Harvey, Im not at all surprised at the number 1400. I was the music director at my college radio station and had a chance to basically stand at the bottom of niagra for a year as it rained CDs. Release after release from geffen, atlantic, elektra, etc came across my desk almost all of them well recorded and mastered. But the music, as in writing and performing was not even average. If we had one good song to chart from 10 CDs we were lucky. Its an old story but they sign thousands of bands and throw them against the wall and hope one will stick. If that one band doesnt happen theyre screwed. If you look in the annual reports and quarterly reports of these companies they discuss the earnings in relation to bands' albums and units sold (only sig albums). The same business model is used by pharmaceuitcal companies which claim that they put billions of dollars into dif drugs and hope one will make it through and when it does they charge prices 100 times cost bec they have to make back on all investment in drugs that didnt go anywhere. Thing with the record company is if they had half decent A&R they wouldnt have to waste millions on bands who arent going to move more than 1400 CDs off the shelves.

 

[MrZekeMan]

For the first time in my life, I believe I have a shot of getting a record deal.

 

[JerryD]

Glad to see you back Harvey....

Sounds like your pretty busy.

Good to hear your OK and back.