10/8/2007 4:00:02 AM
Alternative Abbey Road

9/28/2007 1:44:57 AM
How about song in Russian ?

4/23/2007 6:24:24 AM
You'll never be signed

4/23/2007 6:24:24 AM ---- Updated 9/29/2007 2:53:08 AM

You'll never be signed
"You'll NEVER be signed to a major label !! Majors don't want guys like you with music like this. They want to continue to bombard us with trash that people are ashamed to say they listened to 5 years later!! If there were any justice in this world you would ALREADY be SIGNED to Warner Bros!! Well crafted songs with production I'd kill for!! keep up the good work!!! YOU ROCK!!! Tim."


So this is a feedback I've got.
Anyway... I think this man is right about majors. They make music like a fastfood.
Indie music rules !

Any opinions ?

Serge of Private Beat

4/23/2007 9:08:23 AM

It's only a matter of time. Our music is so good, so diverse, with new and different styles and fresh ideas. The majors are into economy mass production like Henry Ford's assembly line back in the days of old. A lot of the big names look to writers like us for their number #1 hits. If we make those hits our own and do it ourselves, the Indies will have the edge. The copyright holders are the winners in the long run whether your signed or not. The real fun is playing your own tunes and the masses wanting more!

4/23/2007 9:38:32 AM

My 5-year-old son has this little keyboard that plugs in to the TV set and teaches him how to play, through video games and such.

One of the games gives him a choice of songs to play along to: Clementine, Row Your Boat, etc. Do you know what song he chooses time and time again?
"Fur Elise" - BEETHOVEN
a distant second is:
"The Entertainer" - Scott Joplin

Point is that great music is great music. And that great music can be recognized by anybody and WILL be recognized by everybody, given the proper exposure. Get it out there so that people can hear it and they WILL recognize a great song... period.

Even a 5-year-old can see that.

4/23/2007 12:23:13 PM

Here is my two cents on your blog. I agree that the industry has become predictable and repetitive. I believe they do seek out homogizied material. That is why all groups on the radio sound the same today. You do have a choice in the matter. If you want to get signed to a major label you could choose to create music that would fit in. Being an Indy artist or listening to Indy music though why would you want to? The Indy music scene is alive and kicking and in my humble opinion why bother with the Major labels? They will never give you the support of an Indy based label or community. There is much that an independent artist can accomplish without the support of any label at all these days. With Itunes and all the other online distributors independent artists can sell music.
With sites like IAC artist can get their music heard to try to make a name for themselves. Sooner or later an Indy artist is going to make people sit up and notice. It is only a matter of time. If the major labels are not interested in quality music then let it be their loss. As for me I am happy right where I belong. On IAC, where it’s all about the music.

4/23/2007 7:42:49 PM

'Tis sad but true. And if you don't think that piracy isn't taking it's toll on the major lables, think again. So I think that they stick with similare sounding stuff because it is a "safe" investment for them. They know it sells. They may possibly even stoop to picking artists because they are exploitable and not because they are too terribly talented. But the fact remains: artists don't exist because of the record lables, the record lables exist because of the artists. I think those major lables tend to forget that fact.

4/24/2007 10:56:25 PM

I really don't care who listen to my music as long as what I write makes me happy. Labels are in the business for themselves ,I am music for my craft.

Peace and much love,
Karl / Cosmic Sillk project

4/25/2007 7:17:29 AM

If you are really good at what you do, then you should go out there and let people listen. Sites like these are wonderful because you can utilize their services for your own advantage. I use their mp3 services to put my music on my myspace website. Everyone that clicks on my website listen to my music straight away. Not only that we can sell our music through this site also. The music scene is slowly changing. Internet is giving people like you and me an opportunity for exposer that we would not have say 20 years ago!!

9/29/2007 4:28:33 AM

I see your points there Private,
From my point of view,I have never looked to get signed, thats the last thing I would want to be part of a business that is fickle and shallow, a business whose purpose is to exploit,
No way,
Anyway, I have found that to get anywhere in music, whether online, in clubs, in bands the only thing to do is to lie down and take it up the a*se, that is unless of course your face fits, then you can sing any old sh*te.

9/29/2007 4:35:12 AM

Indie music rules! The major labels, on the whole, produce fomulaic dross, though there are exceptions!

We were offered a deal by a well-known major label, a few years back... it was quite a lucrative offer for us, but then the label started on about changing this lyric here and that lyric there and about re-mixing this song and that song in their studio with their producer and so on... needless to say we are still proudly independent!

9/29/2007 8:05:01 AM

I know several indies here who have been presented with deals who opted to not do them cause they were not good contracts. Just watch your step I would say.

The problem is, guys in suits have raked in the music money for years now and they don't want to give the artist a bigger piece so they're doing everything they can do to retain their same share. iTunes and Snocap for instance take this huge percentage of music sales, way out of proportion to the cost of simple internet transactions.

9/29/2007 9:39:56 AM

In our case, it was sony...

9/29/2007 10:21:04 AM

Larree ...
Major Label - something you find on the inside of an officers shorts ...

9/29/2007 10:00:56 PM

Let's keep kicking these Majors ------hell they've been doing it even to their own talent for years!

It would be cool to generate some news event, that singles out the iac Artists, and gets into the Mainstream news media------------it would probably have to involve breasts though-------------- lol

or Superpuss squeezing an executives head to see what's within?

9/30/2007 6:48:33 AM

Hey now you're takin' Silverwood!!! Find me a Major exec and I'll gladly offer to 'bearhug' them into submission!!!!! Bwahahahaha :-D

SuperPuss
=^.^=

9/30/2007 1:28:21 PM

Go SuperPuss!! Let the Indies reign.

9/30/2007 3:46:31 PM

Wasn't that a major-label exec in your "wrestling" video, SuperPuss?

9/30/2007 6:02:13 PM

Roll up Roll up!

See the music company exec' share his inner most thoughts on stage with a little

help from the IAC Indies World champion Melon squeezer, Super Puss------------in full colour!

any other stunts coming through?

10/1/2007 12:12:54 AM

LOL guys :-D Thanks Squrly.

Hugh,
The guy in my wrestling clip could've been a major exec.....he isn't though. He's a real estate guy.

Silverwood,
I have done other stunts. Not sure if you've seen my one hand, unopened Pepsi can crush yet? Here it is -


SuperPuss
=^.^=

10/2/2007 5:43:49 AM

Hi Serge,

Thats some pretty flattering feedback that you received!

Well done!
Cheers Alana

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