Taxi? Really???

[noodles]

I read your ad in Electronic Mag about a Taxi success story. I was a member years ago and their unqualified staff gave me some very weird reviews. It quickly made me realize that Taxi is just ripping people off.

I had a song about a girl with lyrics saying 'boy, you could sure turn a head around'. The inexperienced reviewer asked me who the boy was I was talking about!!!

I'm sorry but I can't believe the story EM describes as being true. I even wrote the person mentioned, found little online about her and even her response did not provide enough proof. Taxi is trying to pass itself off as a legitimate company but one should never have to pay to submit music to an opportunity!

Anyone can get tracks accepted into music libraries FOR FREE. Getting them placed is another story that even a well written piece of music cannot guarantee.

RED FLAG, folks.

[guitaroboe]

Really!

Hey Noodles. Let me be the first TAXI member to write and say that you got it ALL wrong.
Not only I have had my music placed on at least A DOZEN tv shows (cable and network) but
I have publishers who pay me UPFRONT to write custom music for them! All because of TAXI
forwards and because of relationships I've made at the Road Rally.
TAXI does not pay me to post this message for you, nor do they give me any preferential treatment.
I am GLAD THEY DON'T! their valuable feedback keeps me 'upping' my game all the time. My music gets
forwarded as much as it gets returned and I'm truly grateful for that. I can name you at least a dozen
of my TAXI FRIENDS WHO FEEL THE SAME as I do.
It's a 100% legit operation ran by an 100% legit management. TAXI cares for its members and thrives
because of its members successes! Just go to the 'Success Stories' part of the forum and read. Nobody
is making that stuff up! Check out my music on my TAXI page-I'm a real person living in Europe!!
all the best to you
Adonis

[slideboardouts]

Haven't posted here in a while since I'm so busy these days but any time I see somebody accusing TAXI of being a scam or in any way a fraudulent company I always take time to reply.

I joined TAXI in 2007 with just a laptop, a few guitars, and Reason 3. I now work full time as a composer for TV shows and commercials making a full time living. I'm 28 and I'm making more than I've ever made in my life and more than most of my friends and acquaintances who are around my age. I've had 4 deal offers as a direct result of TAXI forwards. I would probably have more, but I don't think I submitted to any listings last year as I was just too busy. All but 3 of my deals can be in some way related to TAXI. Either through a forward or a connection made at the Road Rally or right here on these forums.

I would estimate that last year I pulled in around $15,000 just from TAXI deals that were a direct result of forwards. I'd estimate that this year will probably be about the same. Of course, when you add in everything else I'm making a lot more than that. $15k is just what I'm getting from deals that were a DIRECT result of a TAXI forward.

Sorry, but TAXI definitely isn't a scam.

-Steve

[tomasf]

Sure, you can make cold calls to publishers and music libraries, but that takes a lot of time - time you could spend writing music or making more money than what a TAXI membership would cost. And most serious libraries and publishers I know, aren't too keen on unsolicited material. Yes, you could look them up at music conventions and establish contact that way, but that usually cost money too. And how would you know exactly what to pitch if you haven't talked to them? You wouldn't know what kind of music they are after, and asking them might be easier said than done.

Apart from just the opportunity of pitching music to detailed listings, and free tickets to the most awesome music convention I have ever been to, TAXI has given me a lot of insight you won't necessarily find in books at your local library.
I was not a total amateur when I started, but I have surely become a better songwriter the past year and a half since I became a member.

I pitch music directly to companies myself, but without TAXI I would have done it all wrong.
Now, I don't rely on taxi alone, but in combination with direct pitches.

I have a number of songs signed to a publisher through TAXI and I have placements pending because of that deal.

Good luck with everything, Noodles.

[davewalton]

Taxi is trying to pass itself off as a legitimate company but one should never have to pay to submit music to an opportunity!

RED FLAG, folks.

Thank you for saving us all... we don't know what we would have done without you.

[slideboardouts]

Taxi is trying to pass itself off as a legitimate company but one should never have to pay to submit music to an opportunity!

RED FLAG, folks.

Thank you for saving us all... we don't know what we would have done without you.

Yes. I for one wish that Noodles would have posted this back in 2007 to save me from joining TAXI and becoming a full time composer. To think, if Noodles would have just been 5 years earlier in giving this warning I could still be working a job that I hate AND be making half of what I am now

-Steve

[eeoo]

Because of Taxi I'm in the game, don't know what else to say other than that applies to a whole bunch of other people I know as well.

eo

[bmete]

Dear Noodles,

When you are right you are right... Taxi's a scam, thru and thru, so I guess now at any minute I'm going to wake up and realize that my music wasn't placed in one of this seasons episodes of 'Californication' as a DIRECT RESULT of TAXI, or that Donna Karan's worldwide commercials for PUREDKNY & PUREDKNY VERBENA that have been licensed for two years running ( and hoping they continue every year with my music) that was a direct result of TAXI. Oh yeah, and those BMI statements they keep sending. All of this was possible BECAUSE TAXI provided me ( and countless other composers ) with the opportunities. What you do with the opportunity is up to you!
Come on someone pinch me, I need to wake up from this dream... this wonderful dream of hearing my music on TV and getting paid for it.... Pinch me PLEASE!

Bob

[fusilierb]

Dear wet Noodle(s),
Very happy to have recieved your warnings. I thought my 18 placements so far were suspicious. You have confirmed my suspicions. I will now have to call both ASCAP return my money and Taxi to demand a refund for what is clearly a scam. If I'd have known that I wasn't supposed to pay to submit to opportunities, I'd certainly would have never done so. I apologize to the networks who have used my music and the libraries who are pitching it for being involved in such shady dealings.

You sir are a true beacon for humanity and I can't thank you enough for your "oh so qualified" observations. So now that I'm no longer paying to have my music screened, where is it again that us "succeful" folks (you know, like you and me who are smart enough not to fall for these scams) go to pitch our music? I seem to have lost my list of opportunities. Perhaps you could share yours.

[suzdoyle]

Hey Noodles;

I've been a Taxi member for 6 years, and because of them have hundreds of placements in TV, movies, commercials and other productions. In addition, I've learned to hone my craft, understand how the music business works, and have cultivated authentic caring (and educational) relationships with oodles (no noodles) of Taxi members and industry professionals.

In my experience (and that of so many of my Taxi friends and cohorts), Taxi is the real deal. It is run with integrity and authentic concern for helping musicians and artists do their best and learn how to get their work to the those in the music industry.

Thanks to them, almost half of my income now comes from placements resulting from Taxi forwards, and it continues to grow (in spite of my being relatively inactive for 2 years while helping my daughter recover from a car accident). So, while I understand that an early disappointment you experienced may have led you to the conclusion that it's a scam, I can attest to the fact that it works. And it works with the most heart-ful and educational group of people I've ever known.

Hope your next experience is a better one,
Suz