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How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
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Originally posted by Shimano105 View PostJust wondered if there is still a market for this stuff. I can create muzak all day long, expecially if someone pays me for it.
I have read an interview with him (we are not mates or anything like that) and he says he can hardly believe that it is possible to make a living from it but he does.
His attempts at making music as an "artiste" have not been successful yet however. His first album did not receive good reviews and his second has been continually delayed by contractual problems.Comment
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20 years ago, our band got a record deal, and we were over the moon. We were riding on the 90's dance music wave and our stuff was in a similar vein to Ride on Time and the ilk.
Personally I couldn't stand the music, but writing it was easy and we took the deal to a contract lawyer for review.
I have no idea what they charge today, but even back then, it was £160 an hour ! She was the music lawyer for several bands, the Farm being one of them.
Best money we ever spent.
56 fekking clauses in the contract that would stuff us up for the next 10 years of our lives. Too complex to go in to here, but it was nasty stuff.
Dejected and with more than a bitter taste in our mouths, we split the band, and went our own seperate ways. Older, wiser and more cynical, but richer in pocket I guess.
I don't have a band these days, and just tinker at home with various progams (just brought Cubase Essentials 5), and I am planning once we move to have all my kit and synths permanently setup for when the mood strikes.
Working on a few compositions, and always on the hunt for new VSTS, which cost a few bob each time. It's not a cheap hobby, but a very rewarding one. In fact...tempted to fire up Cubase now and have a tinkle...need to get a middle 8 right...
Grats Clippy !Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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