Book
Confessions of a record producer : how to survive the scams and shams of the music business
Edition
3rd ed.
Publication Information
San Francisco : Backbeat Books ; Emeryville, CA : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed to the music trade in the U.S. and Canada by Hal Leonard Pub., c2006.
Physical Description
xvi, 335 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- The pros
- The creators
- Companies, companies, companies
- Understanding distribution, or Why are there so many logos on the record?
- The major label deal from the artist's point of view
- Publishing deals : the 200% pie, or 100% of something is better than 200% of nothing
- The major label deal from the producer's point of view
- The major label deal from the record company's point of view
- The single
- The independent record deal : the birth of the new indie
- The independent record deal from the point of view of the record company
- The independent record deal from the point of view of the artist
- The baby record deal
- The vanity label
- Wrap-up : who earned what?
- The myth of copyright protection, or "Hey, they stole my song!"
- Master fraud
- Sneaky lawyer stuff
- A&R dogma
- ASCAP vs. BMI : PRO pontification
- Production boners
- Marketing mishigas
- Getting credit where credit is due
- Industry census
- The big picture, or The record industry from the point of view of the rest of the world
- Record/pause
- Appendix. Family trees of big six distributors as of January 1998.