I have a specially developed talent to fool an A&R department into signing a band via my recordings.
But what they do with it after they sign it - is up to them.
Overall, I have had modest 'radio hits' with these type of signings, but
not solid commercial success. Thats a disappointment to me..
The (few) acts I have produced that
HAVE had commercial success were
already signed and had an established 'status' in the music biz...So I could
not 100% claim my production 100%
made those acts hit high in the charts...They were all 'on their way to the top' before I got to them...
Although it may sound like 'sour grapes' I regard the careers of pretty much ALL the (new band) acts that got signed via my recordings were totally mis-managed by idiot managers, idiot A&R mooks and if that wasn't enough to ruin their chances - had bad decisions made by the naive acts themselves - totally mess things up....
So in
those cases I truly believe that my production was "right" and everyone else was "wrong"
at various stages I dabbled with band management to push forward these atcs, one band got signed to a subsidiary of Universal USA and the other got signed to Beggars Banquet UK and toured with Green Day but both of these acts, although great, kinda got nowhere...Alas there was not enough backbone in the managers that took over from me! tuttt