Read both these statement...you added in words that completely change the connotation of the post. The things in red are things that I didn't say, but things you inferred...
Originally Posted by
dwells
Troup, you might want to re-examine this statement.
please correct me if I am wrong.
you are saying, industry folks are calling you to fly you out and do various music related things and you haven't gotten a single placement from this.
What exactly are industry folks paying to fly you out for? you don't have a placement so obviously they aren't flying you here or there for you to work on their albums.
You did say major (as in major label or that level) business opportunities. and they are calling you personally to offer these opportunities.
It's just this statement is very suspect and contradictory. I'm just trying to clear it up.
Originally Posted by
j.troup
People in the industry know me. My phone rings with major business opportunities. People call me wanting to feature me on their websites and magazines. I get calls wanting to fly me here and there to do various music related things...
ALL WITHOUT A SINGLE MAJOR PLACEMENT.
I said major business opportunities. As in significant. Very few of my business opportunities have been with the "major labels" that you know of. Sometimes it's with an affiliated publishing company. Sometimes it's with a television network. Sometimes it's with a European firm that's doing music business that doesn't involve selling CD's.
My statement was that you don't have to have a MAJOR PLACEMENT to get checks from your music work.
I don't have a single major placement, but yet there are plenty of industry people that know me, and that pick up the phone when I call, and return emails when I email them.
A high profile manager called me in 2008 about signing me. In fact one of his/her clients is often on many of the Favorite Producer lists that I've seen posted here. His/Her clients won grammy's at this years awards.
You don't need major placements to do business within the industry of music. That's what people need to understand. This is why I've previously posted the things that i'm doing. To inspire people to realize that there's a WHOLE ENTIRE INDUSTRY outside of the Big 3 that are releasing CD's for people to purchase.
But that's the only thing that people are focused on...
Well that and trying to make themselves feel better by convincing themselves that I'm NOT really doing the things that I say I am.
I don't have any reason to lie about anything. I state the facts. If people infer something that I didn't state (as you did), then that's not on me.