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Topic subjectI'll do my best to explain...
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2517234, I'll do my best to explain...
Posted by disco dj, Sat Feb-26-11 11:14 AM

>Of course but this is pretty different, people can basically
>listen, to music (everywhere) for free with those websites.
>Would you agree to make your music available on one of those
>websites for a fix ammount of money ? How much ?

you mean like iTunes? Beatport? eMusic etc? That's what people are doing now...

or do you mean a monthly subscription?


>I don't know, I must have read it somewhere on the web, Im ill
>informed on those things.
>

well yes. That's wrong. Nobody gets paid up front for a record. There's more to it than that.


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>
>How much can you with a small gig (less than 100 people) ? In
>a 500 people venue ? How do you get those gigs ? I mean do you
>really have to prove that you sold x amounts of albums ?

you have to have a booking agent. Who usually won't work for free either. BUT the bottom line is, the conversation goes like this:

"Hey I have a band, The Whoever's, and we're trying to play a show in your venue. They have a good fan base, and we charted at 180 on last weeks Billboard, and sold 5k in your city last week. So, we think a lot of those fans would come out to see us..."


So the long and short of it is, you have to give venues a REASON to let you play there. There don't care if you're 'totally fuckin awesome', if nobody's ever heard of you. Why do you think big acts play big halls? Because those vast amounts of people are the people who are familiar with their work.

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>>nobody's arguing against that. We're talking about the
>notion
>>that artists don't need to be paid for releasing music.
>>Re-read the original post.
>
>Then I disagree with him. you should be pay in a way (buy the
>album, go to the show, make people go tio their show) if you
>like their music.
>

that's all we're saying. How it turned into "Artists are assholes who expect too much from the fans" is anybody's guess...