Best compliment ever

[53mph]

To add a late comment to this thread.I think the greatest compliment anyone can give you is to actually fork out their hard earned cash for your music, be it a concert ticket or a CD sale. Music execs get everything free so they can be very liberal with their compliments but a teenage kid forking out $10 of their allowance for your music is a pretty big thumbs up in my book.BTW I'm not sure how many units I shifted when I was releasing stuff (2-3 thousand perhaps, 500 limited vinyl runs, a couple of 1000 CD runs on indie lables) and I didn't see a penny from the sales....the label pocketed all those nice compliments I can probably find my stuff selling for 99p in charity shops in London somewhere.

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What really makes me bleed is when I find someone hawking my album on amazon for triple the price I'm asking on cdbaby!You're right. The fans are what matter. Right Nomi?

[tedsingingfox]

Well, even though TAXI has never forwarded this particular tune, an a capella tune of mine --by some miraculous series of falling dominoes back in 1997-- made it from me to a friend of mine to HIS friend, Broadway legend Jerry Herman, who asked if he could send it to his publisher, who about a week later asked if he could send it to his boss. About five days later, I got a phone call at 7 am PST from the man (B*** P********) who runs the publishing offices in NYC for Paul McCartney, telling me how much "Mr. McCartney" loved my song and would be eager to hear more of my music. I made him tell me this again THREE times before I realized this was NOT a friend of mine pulling a prank on me and this was for real. Then, I was a weeping, babbling moron for the rest of the phone call. I will go to my grave a happy man, even if I never make a dime from my music, knowing that one of the BEATLES not only heard a song of mine, but also liked it well enough to bother to call me --a nobody-- at home to tell me so.Ted

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and people get bummed out about how long things can take with Taxi...Ted, that is truly awesome. I'll get back to you soon re:Broadjam

[Casey H]

Quote:Well, even though TAXI has never forwarded this particular tune, an a capella tune of mine --by some miraculous series of falling dominoes back in 1997-- made it from me to a friend of mine to HIS friend, Broadway legend Jerry Herman, who asked if he could send it to his publisher, who about a week later asked if he could send it to his boss. About five days later, I got a phone call at 7 am PST from the man (Bill Poracelli) who runs the publishing offices in NYC for Paul McCartney, telling me how much "Mr. McCartney" loved my song and would be eager to hear more of my music. TedI don't think I would ever wash my ear again if I those words came through it! Casey

[tedsingingfox]

Quote:Quote:Well, even though TAXI has never forwarded this particular tune, an a capella tune of mine --by some miraculous series of falling dominoes back in 1997-- made it from me to a friend of mine to HIS friend, Broadway legend Jerry Herman, who asked if he could send it to his publisher, who about a week later asked if he could send it to his boss. About five days later, I got a phone call at 7 am PST from the man (Bill Poracelli) who runs the publishing offices in NYC for Paul McCartney, telling me how much "Mr. McCartney" loved my song and would be eager to hear more of my music. TedI don't think I would ever wash my ear again if I those words came through it! CaseyI actually TRIED to go that route, but it just got too nasty by the third week and I had to come to my senses. And FWIW, a little bit of an update...Just a week or so after I made that post, while I was in NYC seeing my step-dad, I got an email from TAXI, letting me know that my a capella doo-wop song was forwarded to the same music library/publisher that already had two of my other songs (also thru TAXI forwards). WooHOO! It was the last forward I got before heading to the Rally. Ted