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Originally Posted by JoaT  I'm positive he is a nice guy, and really worried about the future of his trade as many of us are.
The reason I asked is that I think this kind of "non-profit" model would not pass here. Obviously it's set up with the goal of generating revenue for his business. And he openly admits that.
I think that kind of model is stretching the "non-profit" concept. |
Wow. Look what I missed! Jeez, guys. I've been trying to get the Gearslutz crowd to talk about this topic for a long while now. I guess I should've done an NPR interview sooner!
So some clarification is certainly necessary:
I actually am a really nice guy. I've often worried that my success as a producer and engineer was based more on that than the quality of my work. Nonetheless, I've done my best to be my best.
Weathervane Music is a non-profit organization. THat organization exists to build a community of music fans, musicians, supporters of the arts, etc., to actively support and advance what it feels is a program of great independent music and music related video productions.
That's it. It has nothing to do with my studio, Miner Street Recordings, except that MST is the only studio I've been able to convince to let us do the work for FREE. Someday we hope Weathervane will have its own facilities, but that's a long long way off, if we are so fortunate. We toyed with the idea of having affiliate studios and not working out of Miner Street at all, simply to keep the two organizations clearly separate, but when we realized the extent that this would require ME flying around the country to make sure that the money we are sending to X recording studio for Y recording project ACTUALLY RESULTS in a FINISHED PRODUCT, it was obvious that we should just work out of a studio that we could rely on, that I wouldn't need to fly to, and that had a place for artists to stay at from wherever they'd come. Until we can afford a facility, we need to start somewhere.