Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
Moderators: admin, mdc, TAXIstaff
- VanderBoegh
- Serious Musician
- Posts: 2057
- Joined: Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:47 pm
- Gender: Male
- Location: Boise, Idaho
- Contact:
Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
I had a major "break" in the past few days that I wanted to share with you all. Since it's never happened to me before, I'm pretty dang excited about it.
I met a cool publisher at the Road Rally back in November who I ended up hanging out with for a bunch of the conference (drinking way too many beers in the process), who signed a handful of my tracks the following month. Well just recently he asked if I had any cool hip-hop tracks I could send his way, and as luck would have it, I was already in the process of creating a hip-hop collection. So I sent the whole works to him and he signed seven of those songs, with a nice three-figure cash "signing bonus" (not sure if that's the correct term or not) for each of them. I could have just about - ahem... - soiled my pants. And he's already pitching them directly to music supes at a handful of MTV and E! shows. He seems quite optimistic the placements will start right away, and I'm hoping that's not just unfounded optimism, otherwise he probably wouldn't have shelled out some cash to an unknown and unproven upstart like me. Ya know, a guy with only ONE placement to his name who hasn't even made a mark, or a dent, or even a scratch in the music business.
That money is going to help defray the cost of a much-needed computer upgrade, and is even paying for me to go down to the ASCAP Expo next week, where I'll have the chance to hang out with that publisher again. On top of that, he's said he'll introduce me to other publishers while I'm down there.
Thank you Taxi, for providing these opportunities for all of us dreamers. Two months ago I never thought I would be cashing a nice check for some hip-hop and gangsta tunes (heck, I'm a white dude from Boise Idaho... I've never even spent a single minute in an urban ghetto. Now farms on the other hand... uh, yeah).
Anyway, here's a SoundCloud collection of all my hip-hop tracks so far. There's only 13 of them here, but now 7 of them are signed and put close to a thousand bucks in my pocket.
My Hip Hop Collection: https://soundcloud.com/vanderboegh/sets ... wcase-pack
I'm waiting for somebody to pinch me and wake me up from this dream!
~~Matt
I met a cool publisher at the Road Rally back in November who I ended up hanging out with for a bunch of the conference (drinking way too many beers in the process), who signed a handful of my tracks the following month. Well just recently he asked if I had any cool hip-hop tracks I could send his way, and as luck would have it, I was already in the process of creating a hip-hop collection. So I sent the whole works to him and he signed seven of those songs, with a nice three-figure cash "signing bonus" (not sure if that's the correct term or not) for each of them. I could have just about - ahem... - soiled my pants. And he's already pitching them directly to music supes at a handful of MTV and E! shows. He seems quite optimistic the placements will start right away, and I'm hoping that's not just unfounded optimism, otherwise he probably wouldn't have shelled out some cash to an unknown and unproven upstart like me. Ya know, a guy with only ONE placement to his name who hasn't even made a mark, or a dent, or even a scratch in the music business.
That money is going to help defray the cost of a much-needed computer upgrade, and is even paying for me to go down to the ASCAP Expo next week, where I'll have the chance to hang out with that publisher again. On top of that, he's said he'll introduce me to other publishers while I'm down there.
Thank you Taxi, for providing these opportunities for all of us dreamers. Two months ago I never thought I would be cashing a nice check for some hip-hop and gangsta tunes (heck, I'm a white dude from Boise Idaho... I've never even spent a single minute in an urban ghetto. Now farms on the other hand... uh, yeah).
Anyway, here's a SoundCloud collection of all my hip-hop tracks so far. There's only 13 of them here, but now 7 of them are signed and put close to a thousand bucks in my pocket.
My Hip Hop Collection: https://soundcloud.com/vanderboegh/sets ... wcase-pack
I'm waiting for somebody to pinch me and wake me up from this dream!
~~Matt
Matthew C. Vander Boegh
http://www.vanderboegh.com
https://www.taxi.com/members/vanderboegh
http://www.soundcloud.com/vanderboegh
http://www.vanderboegh.com
https://www.taxi.com/members/vanderboegh
http://www.soundcloud.com/vanderboegh
- michael11
- Serious Musician
- Posts: 1414
- Joined: Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:51 pm
- Gender: Male
- Location: UK
- Contact:
Re: Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
Infinite congrats Matt!!
Superb work.
Michael.
Superb work.
Michael.
- cassmcentee
- Serious Musician
- Posts: 3513
- Joined: Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:40 am
- Gender: Male
- Contact:
Re: Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
Big Congrats Matt!!!
Robert "Cass" McEntee
"Making music on a spinning ball of Magma"
https://soundcloud.com/robert-cass-mcentee
https://www.taxi.com/members/DosPalmasRecordings
"Making music on a spinning ball of Magma"
https://soundcloud.com/robert-cass-mcentee
https://www.taxi.com/members/DosPalmasRecordings
- ScottFree4All
- Committed Musician
- Posts: 642
- Joined: Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:16 am
- Gender: Male
- Contact:
Re: Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
That's a great story Matt. I love that upfront $$$ thing! I'm very happy for you.
Cheers,
Scott
Cheers,
Scott
- Russell Landwehr
- Serious Musician
- Posts: 3476
- Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:59 pm
- Gender: Male
- Location: Midwestern Ohio
- Contact:
Re: Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
Holy *censored* Matt!
How awesome is THAT!
How awesome is THAT!
Multi-Genre Composer and Producer of TV and Film music Providing Easy to Use Cues for Every Scene
http://www.sensawehr.com
https://www.taximusic.com/hosting/home. ... l_Landwehr
http://soundcloud.com/russell-landwehr
http://www.sensawehr.com
https://www.taximusic.com/hosting/home. ... l_Landwehr
http://soundcloud.com/russell-landwehr
- AlpacaRoom
- Impressive
- Posts: 342
- Joined: Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:42 pm
- Gender: Male
- Location: Long Island, NY
- Contact:
Re: Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
Wow, nice work, Matt; huge congrats!
-Nick
-Nick
- HectorRContreras
- Serious Musician
- Posts: 1407
- Joined: Wed Aug 21, 2013 6:38 pm
- Gender: Male
- Location: Desert Hot Springs CALIFORNIA
- Contact:
Re: Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
Woah, dear Matt, huge Congratulations indeed, I loved to read this Story, and so will Michael, I am sure, when he passes by ...!
- roberthamilton
- Committed Musician
- Posts: 556
- Joined: Thu May 03, 2012 3:04 pm
- Gender: Male
- Location: Phoenix
- Contact:
Re: Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
Pimp alert! Nice job, brother.
- andygabrys
- Total Pro
- Posts: 5567
- Joined: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:09 pm
- Gender: Male
- Location: Summerland, BC by way of Santa Fe, Chilliwack, Boston, NYC
- Contact:
Re: Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
yeah man! that's the schizzle. or whatever they say lol.
Irresistible Custom Composed Music for Film and TV
http://www.taxi.com/andygabrys
http://soundcloud.com/andy-gabrys-music
http://www.andygabrys.com
http://www.taxi.com/andygabrys
http://soundcloud.com/andy-gabrys-music
http://www.andygabrys.com
- eeoo
- Serious Musician
- Posts: 3693
- Joined: Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:26 pm
- Gender: Male
- Location: NorCal
- Contact:
Re: Road Rally connection leads to Upfront $$$$$$$!
Dude! Nice score and way to shmooze, networking skills are critical but you gotts back it up with solid music which you do!
Congrats.
eo
Congrats.
eo
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 26 guests