Screeners paid NOT to forward music?

[wta]

Aub, I always cheated and broke the cube into pieces and put it back together or moved the stickers around, it took a little longer than 50 secs but the job got done and I was back to throwing a baseball in no time. Your points are all on the mark with the other data I've collected you've done your homework. I'm really now just starting my Taxi adventure and am writing and producing new things that consider the frame work much more seriously and I'm not feeling my creativtity is jammed, at least at this point. Thank cool you run your own studio, that in itself can be time consuming, I've got my own private gear that I use to help other artist when I've got time. Thanks very much for your insight mate and if I can ever reciprocate please let me know... '-) wta

[squids]

Oct 2, 2008, 11:24am, matto wrote:Many of us are forwarded on a very regular basis and we aren't exactly geniuses (although some of us may think so ). Why, Matto! And you know these people personally?I know you feel blessed.

[squids]

Oct 2, 2008, 11:29am, billg wrote:Now let's gripe about something meaningful . . . like why screeners tell me my music isn't current enough It's like hair, Bill. My hairdresser tells me, when I fret, "look, honey, there's a difference between classy and current. Know it!" She so right. You jes classy. I know I'll be able to listen to your tunes years from now and still not be tired of them or hear all these cheesy 'sounds' from now on 'em. Some things jes plain last.Unlike my tunes which are designed to be put on small shiny discs with which to clean your dirty dishes and then promptly discard! Keep on bro.

[squids]

Wta, I appreciate your attitude and willingness to learn, which I think is the base from which all successful ventures start. Yay! Like Dave Walton, I generally get high marks and have done very well with forwards. But I've also had extremely high marks and completely missed the listing requirements (so embarrassing but there it is) although that was a coupla years ago now, not so much anymore.It does seem like a big ol' maze and we can't smell the bait anywhere. But I found that Taxi lists the bands on their site somewhere (don't have it off the top of my head at this moment) so you can take a quick breeze through them to study exactly what they're lookin' for in the listing. Even then, there's a bit of experience involved as well......I've risked sometimes and won, then done the sure thing and lost. There's a bit of fine reading as well as talent, good engineering and some luck involved as well, although not as much luck as the other things mentioned. Mostly, a willingness to hear things you don't wanna but that will get you there. For commercial writers, etc, this is key. Myself, my life took a different turn. Commercial music isn't really my genre, nor was it ever, really. Jes kinda more interested in seeing what I could actually DO with music, that was the fun. If I got a bunch of forwards, as matto once said, it must mean I did somethin' write (ouch! ). Could I count on that though? Nope, simply because it wasn't that big of a goal. But if it's your goal, you can't go wrong listenin' to some of these guys. If you like writin' to the listings fo the sheer dare of it, the challenge.....then this is your game. Learn, learn, learn. We die without it. Jes my .02 though. Whadda I know? I know you can scrape dishes with my cds and it works GREAT!