HBO Placement -"The Righteous Gemstones"
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:15 pm
Got the happy news today that my old song ONE FALSE MOVE (AND I'LL BLOW THIS LOVE APART) will be used in the new HBO hit “The Righteous Gemstones”
in episode 106, which is set to air on 9/15/19. This comes from my first (and only!) Taxi placement, from 2014, with a song written and recorded in 1981.
Patty Brayden (my wife) and I wrote and recorded this song with the Pointer Sisters in mind, but could never manage to get the cassette to them. It was difficult to pitch songs back then.
The Master tapes of that song and 7 others I recorded back in the day rested in a box in my attic until 2014 when shortly after I joined Taxi I saw an "opportunity" for vintage "R & B" originals from the 1980's. I digitized the 1/2" master and submitted "One False Move" to that opportunity which got forwarded and which lead to that song and 6 other of my songs from that era to be published/pruchased by a record company.
So here is the updated timeline: it took a few weeks to write the song, 2 days to record, mix and master (8-track), 33 years to a forward, 1 week from forward to the Taxi "success" of purchase and publishing, and 2 years from the success of the publishing to a placement on a TV show ("Red Oaks" on Netflix) and now the 2nd TV placement on HBO 3 years later.
All in the ripeness of time.
Again, thank you Taxi!
"One False Move" may be heard at my Taxi homepage
http://www.taximusic.com/hosting/home.php?userid=57433
and in two weeks on HBO. I guess I have a new series to binge.
My Taxi journey continues...
John
John Finbury
http://www.greenflashmusic.com
in episode 106, which is set to air on 9/15/19. This comes from my first (and only!) Taxi placement, from 2014, with a song written and recorded in 1981.
Patty Brayden (my wife) and I wrote and recorded this song with the Pointer Sisters in mind, but could never manage to get the cassette to them. It was difficult to pitch songs back then.
The Master tapes of that song and 7 others I recorded back in the day rested in a box in my attic until 2014 when shortly after I joined Taxi I saw an "opportunity" for vintage "R & B" originals from the 1980's. I digitized the 1/2" master and submitted "One False Move" to that opportunity which got forwarded and which lead to that song and 6 other of my songs from that era to be published/pruchased by a record company.
So here is the updated timeline: it took a few weeks to write the song, 2 days to record, mix and master (8-track), 33 years to a forward, 1 week from forward to the Taxi "success" of purchase and publishing, and 2 years from the success of the publishing to a placement on a TV show ("Red Oaks" on Netflix) and now the 2nd TV placement on HBO 3 years later.
All in the ripeness of time.
Again, thank you Taxi!
"One False Move" may be heard at my Taxi homepage
http://www.taximusic.com/hosting/home.php?userid=57433
and in two weeks on HBO. I guess I have a new series to binge.
My Taxi journey continues...
John
John Finbury
http://www.greenflashmusic.com
