Many of you know my feelings behind the music "industry" as a whole and my thoughts behind record labels and whatnot. For those of you who don't....to surmise, I hate them. An interesting question was posed to me the other day; and its one that many up-and-coming artists and bands are faced with almost daily. When you have an empty suit from a label with a contract and the resources that come with it, are you REALLY man enough to say "No Thanks?".
Honestly, I couldn't answer that question. My goal musically has always been simply to have people hear my work. The best way to have people hear your work, is to have a marketing team behind you that creates are groundswell about your band. Record companies do exactly that. Basically they are just glorified marketing agencies. Do you really think that the head of Warner Brothers Music Division is rocking out the new Avenged Sevenfold CD while some guy is driving him around in a Bentley? I don't think so.
If you wiki the term "record label" you will find that there are four (yes, only FOUR) Major record labels, all of which are owned by larger corporations. Something is wrong with this. Somehow I don't think that the bigwigs at Sony care about the hot new metalcore band in Des Moines, Iowa. What they see, are 500,000 Myspace fans, which equates to 500,000 dollar signs. There are many things that are wrong with the "business" side of music, and there are some thoughts and changes that I propose or have heard of that could change the way things are being done. Stay tuned......
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