Do you have a plan for your future?

I'm going to go to college for the next 2 years while our bassist is finishing school. I might or might not drop out for the second year. When we've all finished I'm going to work the band really hard, you know 3 rehersals a week at least.


We've got connections with EMI (the English branch of Capitol for you Yanks) so when I feel we're good enough I'm going to bring those into play, see if we can get a deal with them.

That's my plan so far, let's see how it goes.

Blessings

Sebbi

 

I'll finish mixing our demo, we'll send it all over the planet and get gigs and a record deal. Hoooray!

 

i think im gonna probably keep developing as a guitarist until im pretty damn good.
then i'll try and make some money from my own songs and stuff but go crazily depressed with the fact that i cant write anything original that really expresses me.
i'll then commit suicide and then become famous and every one will love my music and i will watch from where ever i am and sit with van gogh and talk about how you all suck because you didnt like us until we were dead.

 

It's about time for me to learn a new instrument.

 

ahahha shut up george.

its about time for me to learn ONE instrument

 

aw... ahah... Come here and I'll show you how it's done... lmao.I am GOING to record with you this summer. You can use my Martin and I could use my Rae.. I love guild 12 strings,...haha. Hmm... someday I want to get a koa taylor (since I promised you I wouldn't get a plain looking taylor with a spruce top. )

 

w00t

 

t00w

 

*groan*
If you want to save rock & roll, why do you want to sign to a major label? Who do you think killed it in the first place?

 

Pop-"punk" and metal bands who make the mainstream airwaves because they're pretty looking.

Look at Oasis.. they're signed to Sony and they have yet to make crap.

 

Is that a fact?

 

MTV

 

Depends on what you're talking about



Green Day has probably helped kill music more than any other band.

 

How?

Theyve been making good music for over a decade. It may not be the most intelligent, but I don't see how they don't deserve credibility. American Idiot is one of the few antigovernment/protest songs since the 60's.

 

It's that big label that's forcing these bands to write the albums the way they are. When you’re signed like that; you do what the label wants (which is to make money, and there’s pretty much a formula as to how it works). If you don’t get the label’s approval; you can release nothing. You're stuck under contract, and getting out of that contract is flat out impossible. This means you’ll change nothing, and why? It's because the big labels don’t want change, they’re making plenty of profit the way things are.

 

Yeah, if you're an easy pushover.

Like I said, check out Oasis. They've been signed to a big label their entire career, and they have yet to release and pop-"punk" sellout crap. I doubt any band has taken as many chances in the recording studio this millenium than they did on Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.

Their latest single sounds like early '70's Who... it's not their best song by far, but doesn't sound remotely like S Club 7, or any of the emo and "punk" crap that rules the States.

So I would imagine that as long as you write your own music, and won't let anyone order you around, then being signed to a major label wouldn't be a problem.

 

It's not as easy as it sounds. Do you know how many people have been killed in the music business? Think of it as dealing with the mafia.

 

haha... I never considered that

 

No, that was those wankers called good charlotte. Green Day was around way back before all of this fad shite, but that gave them a boost of popularity and they changed quite a bit. Anti-Bushisms were also due to success, but if you ask me, U2 is a little bit more terrifying than Green Day is, at times.

 

You have to take orders if you signed that contract. Even if you only signed a letter of intent, your contractually bound to sign with the label... on their terms. You present them the songs you've written, and they can give the okay or tell you they want to hear this or that change, or scratch it completely. They like your melody but the chorus isn't "catchy" enough. So, you either change it and try again, or you don't and you sit there with songs you can't release. You can't switch labels if you want to, you can't get out of that contract; the label has all the power.

I have several friends that are stuck in that exact predicament. My roommate’s friend, whose band is doing quite well (sold over 500,000 copies of their album) went in the hole $29,000 after repaying their advance; and that was after their label cut them their share of the royalties.

I highly recommend reading that Albini interview I posted on the first page… it explains the problem with major labels perfectly, and if you’re interested in getting exposure or getting an album out there; it’s must-have knowledge.