More success without Taxi

[thedivys]

Let's get something straight here.We, The Divys, have had many nice successes.We have had 2 songs placed on XBox in America & Europe, awarded The John Lennon Songwriting Contest, many plays on Network Television, and so on.We know what is possible. We are just sick of the professionals doing nothing for us while charging us. If you don't like it, too bad. We have the right to be a bit disappointed when people don't work as hard as we do.

[hummingbird]

Sept 30, 2008, 7:20am, louis2012 wrote:I suspect what The Divys are trying to say is that Taxi sometimes doesn't do its job properly. Its all too easy to let Taxi get away with it by saying the same old thing 'It wasn't right for the listing' and 'submit,repeat,forget' but based on my experience I can honestly say some of those screeners are way too harsh and hand out returns all too easy. I have imperfect mixes forwarded and on target submissions returned. For a professional songwriter this is a career nightmare where the middle men get to play God yet again (and I certainy joined to avoid that, but i knew what I was getting into before I joined, so I'm not really whining about it)As much as we get on with each other on this forum I do see divisions in the camp based on experience. A member with a lot of forwards and successes will defend Taxi to the end and so they should, but there are members that have been kept back because of inept screeners, lets not forget that. Maybe thats what The Divys are trying to say, or maybe I'm using that to create my own mini rant.Are the screeners Inept? Obviously some very large companies involved in the music industry don't think so - that's why they come to Taxi to have the music screened for them. They trust the screening system to separate out everything but exactly what they've said they want, and forward only those specific tracks for consideration.Have members been 'kept back' because of inept screening? Well, I was certainly kept back... and I'm glad of it. I'm glad Taxi demanded more of me. I'm glad they insisted - if I wanted to be successful - that I listen to the 'a la's and the 'sounds like', that I learn what a good demo is & what the stylistic differences between genres & subgenres are, that I find & learn to use contemporary sounding VIs, that I rewrite & hone my lyrics, that I learn to mix & produce effectively. I know - and I think anyone who has watched my progress since June 2004 knows - that Taxi has been a catalyst for my success. Do I get music placed outside of Taxi - yes. Because what I produce now is good enough to pitch & get signed.Frankly, I'm glad that Taxi is so tough on me. It's kinda like my Maestro being so hard on me. Yes, he was gentle, supportive, but a stickler for every single detail. We'd spend an hour working on the first phrases of an aria. Frustrating, demanding. But when my Maestro nodded his head or clapped his hands - I knew what I was doing was better than excellent. So when Taxi gives me the nod, that's my response. "Good, I got it, right, file that away, that's what works." That's why I'm a member. To learn and grow and be more than I was before. Like any other set of human beings, I don't think screeners are perfect, but as Mazz has pointed out, Taxi has great customer service & they are willing to talk with any member about concerns. But, in this particular case that's being discussed here, the member in question has been forwarded but has not been offered a deal. You can't call Taxi and complain that the companies you've been forwarded to haven't called you. Just like you can't call Sony Records and rail at them for not responding to the demo you sent. Well, you can... but I don't think it does you much good

[louis2012]

[/quote]Are the screeners Inept? [/quote]Sorry Vikki, I should have made that clearer. I meant that some screeners are inept, not all! I found it interesting that the one or two I've had a problem with have been quite consistent in their rejections in the screener shout out section and I've agreed with other members criticisms of them. Their critiques in relation to what their jobs at taxi are supposed to be about seem...well..odd, almost as if they really should be working somewhere else entirely. Constructive criticism in relation to the listing is great, but when a couple of them go off at a tangent, as if they are frustrated musicians themselves and tell you how they would have produced the piece (with no relevance to the listing) it feels like a waste of time and money on the members part. I could have got the same irrelevant advice from my drunken uncle at a family reunion.

[tedsingingfox]

[daniel481]

Divy - It derives from the language of "chaver" meaning stupid or silly.Care to paste a response?