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Originally Posted by Bob Olhsson  Record labels have almost never signed anybody based on music because any idiot can go out and hire the best producers and songwriters available. They only sign artists who can demonstrate that they have the ability to draw and engage audiences.
All a demo does is help people make a decision about an artist being worth going out to see. A video showing an audience going nuts will probably do you a lot more good than any music recording. |
Very true...but I loath this image vs music equation the Labels seem to use. Tom Scholz/Boston wrote/recorded one of the biggest selling debut albums in the history of recorded music based solely on music alone. Those songs from that album get regular airplay even today. So it makes me wonder how many more Tom Scholz's are out there who were natural music geniuses but were turned away because someone at A&R decided the artist didn't have "the look".
For me, the Madonna, Metallica, & Nirvana homogenized, on-stage clones have grown very stale. I miss the music of the 50's/60's/70's where most "artists" wrote their own music, played their own music, and strived for their own signature sound.