Moses Avalon – Confessions of a Record…
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The Pros vs. the Artists | ||||
The Pros | ||||
Lawyers | ||||
Conflicts of Interest | ||||
A&R | ||||
A&R at the Indie Level | ||||
Managers | ||||
Publicists, Booking Agents, Tour Managers, Image Consultants | ||||
The Creators | ||
Musicians |
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The Survivor | ||
The Jobber | ||
Songwriters | ||
Engineers | ||
Artists |
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Producers |
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The Artist/Producer Conflict |
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Control Freaks |
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Counteracting The Effects Of The Control Freak |
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Companies, Companies, Companies | |
Record Companies | |
Production Companies | |
Publishing Companies | |
Performance Rights Organizations | |
Musicians’ Unions | |
Publicity Companies | |
Independent Promotion Companies | |
Distribution Companies | |
Rights Clearing Houses | |
Harry Fox Agency |
The Deal | ||
Understanding Distribution or Why are there so many logos on the record? | ||
Introduction |
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The Big Six | ||
What is a real Independent label? | ||
One Deep and Two Deep Labels | ||
The Major Label Deal | ||
The Major Label Deal From The Artist’s Point Of View | ||
Recoupable Financing-The Moving Goal post | ||
The Big Deal Real Deal Numbers | ||
But how long does it take to see some money? | ||
Egghead Box I | ||
Packaging Deductions & Giveaways | ||
Breakage-The 90% Rule | ||
The 3/4 royalty | ||
Egghead Box II | ||
In The Hole | ||
Returns, Reserves & Cutouts | ||
Cross-Collateralization-Robbing Peter To Pay Paul | ||
Marketing |
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Timing success & A&R | ||
Need And Greed | ||
Publishing Deals – The 200% Pie or 100% of Something Is Better Than 200$ Of Nothing | ||
Three Quarter Rate | ||
Publishing Advances, The Interest-Free Loan At 33% Interest | ||
Egg Head Box III | ||
Artists Are In The Believer Business | ||
The Major Label Deal From The Producer’s Point Of View | ||
The “All-in” Deal | ||
Kickbacks |
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Non “All-in ” Deals | ||
The Spec Deal | ||
When The Producer Wants Publishing | ||
The Major Label Deal From The Record Company’s Point Of View | ||
The Distribution Vig | ||
Deductions | ||
To The Writer | ||
To The Artist | ||
To Musicians | ||
Giveaways, Returns and Special Programs | ||
Packaging & Manufacturing | ||
One Deep And Two Deep Label’s Vig | ||
Egg Head Box VI – Breakdown of costs to the label | ||
Image Molding | ||
A bit of history | ||
Improving upon the truth | ||
The Single | ||||
Who picks the single | ||||
The Hit Parade Charts & “The Hit Single” | ||||
Billboard or Bullboard? | ||||
SoundScan |
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Other types of charts | ||||
Airplay |
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Promoters and Payola | ||||
The Birth of the New Indie | ||||
The Independent Record Deal From The Point Of View Of The Record Company | ||||
The P&D Deal | ||||
The Hot Sheet – How Records Get To The Store | ||||
Egghead Box V | ||||
The Independent Record Deal From the Point of View of The Artist | ||||
Egghead Box V | ||||
Publishing and Royalties | ||||
Speed Trends | ||||
Super-duper Cross-collateralization | ||||
The Baby Deal | ||||
The Artist/Producer Production Deal | ||||
The Mini Record Deal | ||||
Watch out! | ||||
The Joint Venture | ||||
The “Work for hire” | ||||
End-zoning – Cutting out the Producer | ||||
Informal Agreements | ||||
Contraceptive Contracts | ||||
The Vanity Label | ||||
The Virtual Budget & The Virtual Producer’s Fee | ||||
Producer’s Compensation Packages | ||||
Overrides | ||||
5% royalty | ||||
Buy-Outs, or the “Fuck you” clause | ||||
“Go Away” in a production deal | ||||
The Producer As a Virtual Partner | ||||
Where’s My Contract? | ||||
Holding The Masters | ||||
What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You | ||||
Fucking The Producer, The Re-record | ||||
Letters Of Direction (LODs) | ||||
Artist’s LODs | ||||
Wrap up – Who Earned What? | ||||
Artist/Writer |
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Touring | ||||
Producer | ||||
Record Company | ||||