RE: (TV) never will be another or Slow, Slower, and Slowest

[Murray Ramone <murrayramone@hotmail.com>]

The old problems of needing to be on a major to be able to distribute your
product no longer exist. Stick it on bandcamp.com and charge what you like and
all the money comes to you. Bands with a history like television would get
enough publicity with good management to get the word out there so that people
would buy it. And many more would download it for nothing, but you have to
view recordings as just a flyer for the next gig.



The real problem for the future of music is - how do new bands get to that
level where enough people know about your music to make it viable to
record/tour even on a really small scale ? the days of up and coming bands
hopping over the atlantic to do tours is definately over as there wont even be
tour support for uk bands to do uk tours. I still want to get excited about
new bands, but its getting ..... almost impossible

> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:13:50 -0700
> Subject: Re: (TV) never will be another or Slow, Slower, and Slowest
> From: rexbroome@gmail.com
> To: tv@obbard.com
>
> Completely true.
>
> Any money you make is going to come from touring anyway, so as long as you
> have someone in place to book and promote the tour, you're fine. If the
> money worries you and you don't think you can break even, put it out as an
> online release, for free, even.... that way you don't have to worry about
> recouping the manufacturing costs.
>
> Schneider oughtta know most of that since the B-52's are mostly a touring
> act with any '80s nostalgia package that comes along... he's just thinking
> with an outmoded model because they probably ended up with a lot of unsold
> Funplexes.
>
> No, I'm not thrilled with the death of physical media, but I'd rather
> artists be able to keep putting out music, so they and we should just come
> to terms with it. Television IV could come out online-only with maybe a
> limited-edition vinyl version with manufacturing costs to be covered by
> pre-order or something... happen all the time these days.
>
> -Rex
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:20 AM, andy fekete <andy.fekete@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I call bs on Mr. Schneider.
> >
> > One can record, mix, master and cut an album for next to nothing these
> > days; all that is needed is a PC, a set of microphones, and the
> > inclination and nerve to DIY rather than rely on some expensive studio
> > or producer.
> >
> > Of course, it helps if you have some decent ideas to record.
> >
> > -A
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:38 AM, grntg <grntg@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Fred Scneider of the B-52's probably sums up why there will never be
> > another Television (or Verlaine album) for that matter...
> > >
> > > Funplex (the new B52 album) may not be the last B52 studio album,
despite
> > what has been reported he says, "I didn't say that in public, but who
> > knows," Schneider says "It's really expensive" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch
> > >
> > > I think we can all agree the B52's would out sell a TV album and they
> > all probably have a bit more cash to front an album then Verlaine.
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