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this is true aural art IMO

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Something different---teaching music to Solomon Islands students

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we met this guy at McCabes-- a blues/Roots legend

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other hobbies

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MUSIC WITH BALLS!

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THE ROAD TO THE SEA (a fairy tale)

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Time out!

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Ship wreck off NZ coast--environmental disaster pending!!!!

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The most fun with Music

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the art of mime--some light relief

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Status; success breeds success?

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Musicians help earthquake victims in Haiti

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wild boar hunting

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Amy AMY-oh no!

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2 more huge aftershocks--- 5.5 and 6.0

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Adds on IAC--- big improvement

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FREE BEER!!

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Nigel Savage---anyone know where he is???

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back to the 80s

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Small Towns and Ballgowns tour

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We visit our Hometown (Christchurch)

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Lets talk accoustic guitars!!!!

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totally chuffed

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Daily Plays Log

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New Members

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MY HOMETOWN

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Earthquake in New Zealand

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World Music---the zoo

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the Nobodies curse !

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Boring---- but probably true

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persistence---!!

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welcome back

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life goes on---

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Demo DVD for new Blues tune

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IAC Conference pics!

12/1/2010 4:28:30 PM
lLightning does strike twice!

11/8/2010 11:32:52 PM
farmers market gig

11/8/2010 11:16:50 AM
we are back

10/4/2010 1:52:11 PM
Guerilla Busking

9/18/2010 5:26:40 PM
Milestones

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earthquake in New Zealand

8/30/2010 4:56:19 PM
our trip to Conference on National Radio New Zealand !

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sold # MP3S

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Can you drive a car?

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lonely?

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Come together 10/10/10

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oil

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aFFORDABLE mASTERING (wav files)

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BP oil disaster ---thanks to Bushco!

5/24/2010 3:39:25 PM
aRT OF THE IMAGINATION

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Long Shadows (dark lyrics)

5/2/2010 11:03:14 PM
Locutus

4/25/2010 3:11:56 AM
elephant

4/8/2010 7:44:41 PM
Young IAC Artist hospitalised---

3/16/2010 3:41:31 PM
new header---what d'ya think?

2/28/2010 2:48:06 PM
taking a break---

2/13/2010 4:32:58 PM
for Frater (Never Never band)

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vids / dvds gone!

1/27/2010 6:18:35 PM
to the stationmasters here!!

1/23/2010 2:53:04 PM
LYRICAL CONTENT?

1/17/2010 2:38:19 PM
This is weird!

1/8/2010 8:03:29 PM
a damn good day!

12/1/2009 9:48:21 PM
the Future of Music? the eigenharp

11/16/2009 5:10:42 PM
EVERYWHERE THE MUSIC PLAYS

10/22/2009 4:57:28 PM
---lets all hold hands--

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WOODSTOCK ANNIVERSARY / WESTFEST (San francisco)

9/25/2009 6:13:37 AM
' Membrane Over Liquid Dreaming'

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creative energy

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I got so mad I ripped off his arms-

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VIP Gig

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Hecka rush of blood

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a poem

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horror storyin 2009!!!

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pop ups

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how many sites?

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looking up!

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IN STEREO -do your speakers rattle?

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the true "Spirit of Indie"

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New Zealand Music Month! 10 FREE SONGS!

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Melody Gardot on my radio!

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169,354 seems a big jump!

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Recording at Big Totara!

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Comedy Charts-Man in a Shack #1

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April Fools Day!

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IAC Cash Stream-

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Can ewe handle this--extreme sheep!!!!

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recession causing 'net closures

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singing through a megaphone-

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Mother of all funk chords---9th?

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POETRY AND PROSE

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OUTDOOR ARENAS

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remember -- Jackson Brown?

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What's in a name?

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STARJAM

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Got a Sad Song?

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Australian bushfires!

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$500,000 limit?

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Plays per month and $2.00 song

1/22/2009 1:09:18 PM
Boatshed studio finished!!

1/20/2009 1:04:19 PM
congratulations America!!!

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adding backing vocals to a song !

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COMEDY GENRE

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Loris vocals!

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first #1 for 2009!! Comedy!!!

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To the staff and managment at IAC

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MERLIN-Represents independent labels -wins award

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50 cents all mp3s

12/6/2008 2:19:55 PM
Secrets of Station Success!!

11/27/2008 1:05:00 PM
For those that think-

11/20/2008 3:04:26 PM
SAD SONGS

11/12/2008 1:58:03 PM
"Trolls" What are they? can they drive away listeners?

10/28/2008 6:19:26 PM
DO I ?

10/18/2008 3:12:42 PM
Raymond Porter interviews Silverwood!

10/8/2008 2:56:44 PM
-with a little help from my friends!!

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station change

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The White House 2010??

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are you a US taxpayer?

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first #1 in 2008

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Smoke on the WaterJapan!

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Wall street crashes?

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aussies and kiwis lost IAC

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the FLOOD!

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what would you do?

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Lace #1 in Classic / Prog Charts

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nothing really changes ?

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SUCCESS IN STATION CHARTS--ARE YOU-?

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Billy the Kid

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-first lamb spring?

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this is quite funny (I think)

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Robert Johnson!

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city /country divide

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Organic Sounds?

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rebuilding boatshed studio

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robot band-future of music?

6/17/2008 3:17:24 PM
ethics or morals in tunes!

6/13/2008 7:47:59 PM
-hard to get back into it!!

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last day!

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renee goes prime!!

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New Zealand in 3 mins!

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Station Charts------ Argy Bargy!!

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those songs that no one else seems to love--THE BLACK SHEEP STATION

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Silverwooders on the road---- West Coast New Zealand

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"Destiny"

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the Elephant in the Room!

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Advertising commissions/accidents

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FANS

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Multi -Tasking!

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Marlborough Wine Festival!

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true love

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selling MP3s online

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how many genres?

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Update; International Artists CD.

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New outrageous Irish music from the Preludes!

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wow 17th Jan!!

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--------musical commissions-------

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----back very soon----

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Big Names---

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the new "Hairdressers"

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Australian election

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Meet Garbageman!

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Weddings are Amazing----------!

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--------To America?

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The most rewarding Music------!!!

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---is there a Tipping point?

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we just sold------

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World Genre!

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white is turning black-----

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"Nobody" is back!

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57,719--------577,190

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Tradgedy!!

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GONDWANA No1 in "World"

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new artist---Renee from "WAR CHILD"

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guitar tunings----and capos!

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daily plays----

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round the campfire in our grass skirts--------!

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Guitar strings?

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14 weeks at # 1 !

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welcome "Flight of The Concords"

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----remember Firefly??

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"Hairdressers"11 weeks at #1

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deleting links---------

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Boar hunting song--------

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one week--------

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recording---back soon---

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Hairdressers (live genre)

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Murphys Law!

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The Nobody hits no.1

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WAR CHILD SENSATIONAL SUCCESS!!!!!!

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display ART!

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"the Nobody" 3050 unique plays in May!

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NZ music month!

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stations!!!

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feedback?

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help!

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All along the Watchtower!

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Bob Dylan Tribute

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Coastline

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Aussies, Kiwis, Pacifica!

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only 2 hits!

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Accidently deleted "the Nobody"

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LAID BACK LIFE

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Top 50 stations

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Prime

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we need 8 songs!

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Left Handed Musicians

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Left Handed Musicians

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PROTEST MUSIC

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Home recording!

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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

2/3/2011 1:36:56 PM

Boring---- but probably true
Arrested (Artist) Development
By Jeff Price

Sometime in the 90’s, “artist development” for rock and alternative bands, got turned on its head. Gone were the days of a major label aspiring to propel an artist over many years to “rock legend” with multiple releases, tour dates, interviews and in-store appearances (Led Zep, Rolling Stones, Springsteen, The Byrds etc). Instead, new artists were given six weeks from the street date of their debut album to have a radio/MTV hit. If the first single from the album failed, the artist would typically get dropped; their career effectively over before it even began.




This change occurred with the consolidation of the music industry under multi-national billion dollar companies (many publicly traded). Gone were the days of patience for a “return on investment”. Instead, the world boiled down to revenues earned over the last 90 days. Shareholders demanded quick growth, the value of a company lived and died by what was reported and booked every quarter of the year. If the company invested $1 million dollars into a band in January, it cared only about how quickly it could see its money back and how much profit would be made.
This get rich quick strategy helped destroy the value of labels and the careers (and potential careers) of thousands of artists.

Before the record label consolidation, an artist would get signed, an album would get recorded, the release would get set up and distributed. The artist would tour as the label promoted the artist/album building up the fan base and credibility. The band would gain experience playing live, learn things in the studio and grow as musicians. About a year later, the next album would be released, this time to some anticipation by the existing fans, and the same cycle as with the first album would repeat – building, playing, learning, touring, gaining new fans - until the next album came out. It was the artist’s later album, built on years of learning and credibility, that would go multi-platinum providing the final piece of the puzzle in defining them as a “legend”. Once at that status, an abundance of opportunities and wealth would arrive for many years to come via gigs, merchandise sales, advances and band and publishing royalties. The label would experience a huge spike in back catalog sales from new fans discovering and buying old albums selling as many copies of a catalog album in a single week as they did over the previous year. There were no label marketing costs directly tied to these catalog sales thereby generating huge amounts of high margin money for their bottom line.

Or said another way, the value of a major label like EMI (or make that Citigroup due to its recent acquisition) is not from one new Beatles’ album, it’s from the entire Beatles’ catalog. These older albums sell and sell and sell yielding huge financial returns that dwarf income made off of just one hit album.

In the old music industry, the true monetary value for the record label and artist was in the catalog of created and released works – each song, album, EP selling a little (or a lot) each day, week and year creating a large and steady recurring and predictable stream of income (“recurring and predictable income” is the holy grail for financial institutions). The shift to a new strategy of just six weeks to “have a hit or you’re dead” flew not only in the face of artist development but also in the face of long term financial gain while radically changing the way the game was played.

A quick financial return strategy in the music industry could only be accomplished in one way, a mass-consumable commercial radio/video hit single. Bands began to be signed not for their current and future value, but for just the one hit they may have written. All label bets were placed on the one single as it was sent to radio and MTV with hopes of airplay, reaction and consumer sales. Radio and MTV gained massive power being the only outlets to allow this quick explosive growth, and the labels were willing to pay them whatever it took to gain the media exposure.

The music world went topsy turvy – debut albums became an artist’s best selling album with subsequent releases selling far less (Spin Doctors, BloodHound Gang, Alanis Morissette, Hootie & The Blowfish, Third Eye Blind, Better Than Ezra, Marcy Playground etc etc etc). Gone were the days of development, catalog and box sets; in their place came the world of "one hit wonders" whose value dissipated as quickly as it arrived.

This is not to suggest that these bands or songs were good or bad, nor is this to suggest that the phenomenon of “one hit wonders” was not happening through the entire history of the music industry. What was different was the lack of bands being nurtured, supported and given time to grow and develop at the world’s largest labels. Lawyers, calculators and quarterly profit and loss statements replaced the ears and creative passion of music executives like Seymour Stein, Ahmet Ertegun, Lenny Waronker and Mo Ostin.

Bloated artist contracts were an additional side effect of this new get rich quick strategy – understandably, artists, lawyers and managers were demanding larger and larger advances on future albums as a major label would only exercise the option due to the previous album being a financial hit. Percentages of these large advances went into the pockets of the managers and, in some cases, the lawyer’s, incentivizing them to take the money and run. Marketing spends went through the roof as the labels tried to hit grand slam home runs. Albums selling a few hundred thousand copies that were previously seen as a success were now redefined as failures.

As more than 98% of the bands signed were not hits, the labels could not justify nor afford the huge advances previously negotiated and the bands were dropped, their careers stunted and ended before they even really began.

As this new shortsighted strategy progressed for over a decade, the labels woke one day and realized what they had done – for the past fifteen years they neglected to build up a valuable catalog of work that people would continue to buy over a long period of time. The older “legacy” catalog of Pink Floyd still sold, but there was nothing taking its place, nothing being incrementally added – even rock legends die, taking their chest of musical riches with them to grave. This left only one option, buy even more into the new vicious cycle, do even less artist development, spend more money on marketing, invest more in videos, up advances, swing like mighty Casey at bat for that elusive home run and hope to god something hit.

Had there been more patience, less greed, less focus on next month’s bottom line the magnificence of the industry could have been perpetuated through its creativity. Not only would these media companies have been reaping far greater financial rewards, but the artists and the music fans most likely would have had a different view of the entire industry.

The good news is the cycle has been broken, artists no longer singularly need a label to have a career; there is now a choice. The lessons of the past combined with the technology and opportunity of today can quite possibly create a return to the true cultural and long-term financial value of music. Through new media outlets and social networking, bands and fans can connect in more personal and meaningful ways. Fans are now able to more directly and meaningfully support their favorite musicians over the long term enabling the artist to create a significant body of work through their lifetime. The control of a band’s career has shifted from the label to the artist – be it the path of Vanilla Ice or Radiohead, the choice, success (or failure) is the artists to make.

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Magnetfisch

2/4/2011 5:58:36 AM


quite interesting 8-) "The control of a band’s career has shifted from the label to the artist" I think that's pretty true


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Bümdoser

2/4/2011 7:32:07 AM


write a book!


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The Man With No Band

2/5/2011 9:18:18 AM


Good read ... and spot on ...


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Tom O'Brien

2/6/2011 12:45:22 PM


I'm glad you ended on an upbeat. The whole greedy history of the music industry can get me down. I'm also glad that you used the term "cultural value" in regards to music. If we only care about music's financial value, our music is going to suck. I hope the music we make enriches the lives of us all, even if it doesn't enrich our bank accounts.


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Conversation Suicide

2/6/2011 2:21:21 PM ---- Updated 2/6/2011 5:07:56 PM


Damn, seems like an accurate, not-boring-in-the-least, HISTORY of the industry.
Makes me wonder how many AMAZING 60's/70's garage bands will continue to be re-thrown in the spotlight by newer listeners, now that the formula's been broken. My kids are more informed of 60's garage rarities then myself !

But with SO many talented/amazing Indie Artists out there playing today, how can anybody hope to gain a region or even, a WORLD, FULL of listeners? It's a little daunting sometimes, when I see a broader view of how MANY Live original music acts there are= just in Tucson, alone.

I must say, I still sense that some force in the cosmos is helping PUSH, into the social consciousness, exactly which music will stand the test of time; and with new reasons for old artists to be looked at, as the years roll on, and music continues to evolve as it also recursively returns to it's ROOTS, eventually, even some of the GREAT unknowns that we've met hear at IAC, will live on, even if not until after their personal deaths. urrrr....
silly me, and my dellusional HOPEzzz.

Anyhoo... thanks for this excellently-researched & well-reasoned treatise on Then and Now....

-pHLeGm


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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

2/6/2011 5:43:55 PM



aye, it's a conundrum---the world is our oyster --but how do we open it??

phlegm said---
'But with SO many talented/amazing Indie Artists out there playing today, how can anybody hope to gain a region or even, a WORLD, FULL of listeners? It's a little daunting sometimes, when I see a broader view of how MANY Live original music acts there are= just in Tucson, alone.'

too much bloody good music out there!!!!


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2/6/2011 7:29:06 PM



no doubt, Rob. how excellent it is to both be a PATRON of that "bloody good Music out there", and hopefully a creator/contributor.

Live the dream at whatever level you can, eh? Only the Muses decide how far reaching your OWN attempts to evolve music and art will become....

Either way, contributing to the potential for OTHERS, who deserve to be heard, to gain a few years.....urrr.....ears.... tha's the ticket, as Richard Scotti's recent blogging so stongly alluded to.


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2/6/2011 7:35:59 PM


Very well written Jeff Price!


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