A recording contract says that the band can only record for the label and no one else. This is absolute and final. There is no scenario where the label will allow the band to record tracks without the label being in absolute control of those masters.
Retired Rock Manager/Producer
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Jonathan Coulton and Creative Commons copyright….
I asked Jonathan Coulton to discuss his progressive attitude towards controlling his recordings on the web. For those of you who haven’t heard of Jonathon yet he is one of the more interesting Post Guided by Voices , Lo Fi musicians breaking through the inertia of Nirvana and programmed pop. His songwriting combined with a generous and healthy attitude about giving everyone access to his music helped him break out and create some purely web driven hits like “Code Monkey” and “Still Alive” (A song released as the final durge on the underground hit video game Portal). In short Jonathan is a talented songwriter that is comfortable with the changes that the web has offered and
The ultimate prize, a record deal!
Well I’ve been dancing around this topic since I started the blog 5 months ago. I haven’t written this blog for some unknown reason. It is certainly not due to lack of interest from you all. The emails and votes for a blog on a record deal have been relentless. So now I will give in and outline the inner details of doing a deal with the devil.
Through the decades I have managed quite a few bands. Every one of them has lusted after a recording contract. After the first few contracts I developed the habit of telling all of these starry eyed children that getting signed to a recording contract was the worst possible fate. All of them laughed. All of them ignored me. Did this bother me? No, it was just me covering my moral ass. If I hadn’t said this, with what I know about recording contracts, then I would have been guilty indeed. All of the musicians I represented got what they wished for. all of them regretted it in one way or another. It some cases it destroyed them and ruined the band. Oh well, I warned them. Now I will warn you..
It’s all about being famous again…..
For those of you that are following along rather than just reading random postings tonight’s blog strays from the promised path. I will get to beating up Reader Oliver in the next blog. For the moment I will take a moment out to revisit the original post, “it’s all about being famous”. This is the [...]
