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I got your email address from Ed Simmons. I don’t know if he told you, but I have a band (’The Mistaken‘) and am always looking for exposure. We have songs available for download at iTune s as well as CDBaby.com. We also have a website, myspace page, etc.
I would be very interested in seeing what you could possibly do for us regarding exposure and reaching a broader audience.
Our website is: www.themistaken.com We also have an info sheet, aka ‘EPK’: http://www.sonicbids.com/TheMistaken
Thanks for your time,
Nick Santangelo
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Nick,
Good to hear from ya! We could put out a press release and/or conduct an email interview… for starters… and see where it leads?
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Sounds great to me. Where can I go to see what you do for bands?
Thanks for your reply,
Nick
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Nick,
Hey! What do you mean, “Where can I go to see what you do for bands?” I thought I was going to conduct the interview? Now, you are asking the questions? Heehe Alright, I will attempt to jaw it up on the topic. The fact of the matter is… I do not like to do things for bands anymore. Well, that is not true. I do like working with bands, artists, etal. In fact, the matter of it is, I love to work with bands; however, in many instances I have given up hope in working with/for bands.
It was not always this way. Back in the day, I was the band trying to work with the music industry. I was the one trying to see what the music business could do for my bands. When I came to realize what they wanted to do for my bands, it made me sick. So, I thought we could do it for ourselves. Since my education is in business, I said to me, “Why not out perform the music business at their monkey business?”
At that time, I started a publishing company and release the first world wide web record album. Actually, I went a little overboard… and released the first seven web albums… wrote the music, performed in the music, recorded, engineered, produced, art work, copyrights… the whole package.
Then, I tried to help every musician I could find. On and off the web, we worked with thousands of artists… some famous… many not. Of course, I guess how one perceives fame is a fairly relative term? Here is a short list of some names we have tried to help do things for… some rock n’ roll hall of famers, such as, Carl Gardner and the Coasters and Bill Pinkney… or bands with hits, like… Andy Cahan, The Fish (of Country Joe and the…), Peter Cross (Na, na, na, hey, hey, good bye), Peter Gabriel and so on.
The thing is… there were more F#$& Y%*’s than thank you’s. We worked with hundreds of local bands (A sampling). Hmm… I can only think of one band that was actually appreciative of our free services. In the end, he made the entire endeavour worth while, the Rev. Leroy Montana.
And, we worked with hundreds of famous people, like Clement Dodd — inventor of reggae and ska. In the end, my life gets threatened by Bob Marley’s / the Skatalites organist.
Or, I’m threatened with law suit after law suit. My experience in intellectual property rights includes dealing with over 200 lawyers and law firms. This was pro-bono work on my part.
Thus, my love-hate relationship with seeing what I can do for a band. As of late, I prefer to just do things like you and I are doing now. Projects that are fun, involve friends, help make new friends or benefit humanity in some sort of way.
Lately, there have been a few experiments that fall under the above catagory: interviewing Cage The Elephant, working on The xxDANg3r_Usxx Adventures of mootmute, reviewing Paul Green’s School of Rock concerts and a few others.
Does this answer the first question of the interview? Ha! Does it just raise more?
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Thanks for the good word! I will check out the ‘experiments’ you listed.