You should watch the documentary "Dropped." Very insightful about such things.
Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis President Productivity Enhancement > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:27 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: STIR (music industry rant) > > you know, I hate it when the music industry drives a band out of the > business. > > Take the St. Louis band STIR for example... put a self-titled album > out on AWARE Records (great little label!) before signing with Capitol > and putting out "Holy Dogs", which is a really great album. But it > doesn't get the buzz and Capitol doesn't give it any support, so the > record is basically a bust. Then Capitol drops them, though the band > owes the label money (I assume) for production costs of Holy Dogs. > > They'd written a bunch of other music but couldn't release it - again > probably because of the situation with owing Capitol Records money, or > Capitol owning the rights to the new songs or something. Great stuff. > > In fact, one of the songs, "Skeletons" won the grand prize in the 2002 > International Songwriting Contest > (http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners2002.htm) > > It's just a bummer that really good music gets squashed. > > I'm surprised, after all these years, someone still maintains STIR's > web site (and all the MP3s of the unreleased songs are up there, which > is nice) - www.stirband.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254578 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
