Re: (TV) major labels

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

--- Raymond <ray@wavewalker.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> someday i'll have to write up about all the disasters that befell our band
> and also the bad decisions made on our behalf or by ourselves being
> young,arrogant and incredibly stupid- really they're unbelievable - beyond
> Spinal Tap !

It's interesting you say this - the #1 *named* culprit in the failure of so
many bands is the label or management (see any "Behind the Music" episode) -
but this is the second time in two days I've seen a musician accept some of the
blame for his or her own 'bad luck' (commercial or otherwise). The other is the
dB's, who say some interesting things in the liner notes to their new twofer CD
reissue:

Notes Stamey, "Many aspects of the dB's career were very typical of bands.
Almost all bands find no financial/commercial success, merited or not. We made
several records with reasonable budgets, had several big tours, sold out clubs
. . . radio play was the main hole in the picture. I think our share of bad
luck was not actually excessive; in a lot of ways, we had a better time of it
than most." 

"Not every great band has a hit," Holsapple summarizes. "And I consider us
lucky in having gone from up-and-coming to also-rans to posthumously wonderful
in a comparatively short period of time." 

Rigby agrees, adding that while "our weakness was the business side -- we were
right in there with all those [other bands] that made mistakes and had setbacks
-- we did persevere through it for quite a while, and it wasn't all bleak. I
remember a lot of good times." 

(I copied most of this from the article I posted to the list yesterday, at
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2002-01-10/music2.html/1/index.html)

--Philip


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