From: "Geo" 

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Ani Defranco is an established artist, she doesn't need the
"exposure" to
> make people aware of her music.

She got where she is without the "exposure" from the music industry types.

> The artists that don't get treated "so special" are many
times the ones
who
> fail.

Yes, because they are not allowed to try anything but the formula, they are
locked in so without the special treatment they fail because no other
methods are tried.

> Being on the inside and watching, most of this "pampering" is driven
> by the artists themselves being spoiled brats, wanting more than the guy
> over there is getting.  Most don't have any clue as to what reality is, in
> what their real potential is.

Is that how they start out? Or is that a result of "the machine"
they get run thru?

> Street date hits, first week sales are 2500 pieces.  Not good.  Second
week
> are 2100 pieces.  Third week 1750 pieces.  Major panic at this point.

You can take good music and by pushing make it sell like it was great
music. What you can't do is make crap sell. No matter how many times I play
the Funkadelic album, the only good song on that album is maggot brain.
Nothing is going to change that for me.

Geo.

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