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- From: pet@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (paul eng-yi tan)
- Subject: Re: bloody record companies( was Re: Headless Chickens support Poppies!
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:46:50 GMT
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- hamster@werple.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) writes:
-
- >>Why do record companies sanitize and blandify good bands??? I mean bigger
- >>record companies of course, i.e. those with enough clout to include a lot
- >>of control clauses in the contracts, like choosing what songs to release
- >>as singles, release dates, etc. Smaller ones don't generally have such heavy
- >>hands... So I have heard...
-
- >I wouldn't be too sure about that! Many small independant companies
- >happily change tracks on overseas product they distribute. In the case
- >of the Chickens Mushroom obviously felt that by holding off and waiting
- >for the new tracks they'd end up with a stronger album. I've heard the
- >new songs live, and believe me, they are a quantum leap for the band.
-
- Actually, I consider Mushroom a major record company. It may not be inter
- national, but it is major within Aust... Indie is like Present, Razor (on MDS)
- shock...
- >>is that he was responsible for the Betty Boo tour which was a complete
- >>disaster...
- >...Which poor Betty got all the blame for. No-one is willing to accept
- >the blame for that fiasco, but most informed sources absolve the
- >luckless Ms Boo of all blame, apart from (justifiably) losing her temper
- >on stage. And by the way, I saw one of her shows. She DID sing live.
- >Some people don't know taped backing vocals if they fall over them. Then
- >Quadrophonia can come out here and mime to a DAT machine and nobody
- >complains. There's a lot of hypocrisy in this business...
- I saw Q. They were excellent! I saw them at pure and was pretty sure the
- vocals were 100% live, ditto the DJing. Of course the rest was DAT. The
- reason I think the vox was live was because the sound quality was terrible!
- Couldn;t make out a word. But as a whole, the performance was quite good.
-
- Paul
-
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