lucey wrote on Sun, 13 February 2005 04:36 |
As far as the 24 year old cut off, I disagree. Sarah Mclaughlin was older and is now established for life,
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Note - Sarah Mclaughlin was 'discovered' by an A&R man from Nettwerk Records when she was still in high school (pretty sure) playing in the opening band for his own band MOEV, I think it was..
She then came straight to Vancouver after grad where she was put together with various producers, engineers, songcrafters etc etc and 'groomed' for years and years..
PLUS - she then TOURED endlessly playing tons of crap gigs, small bars across Canada for ages before breaking through...
So she was already working hard for years and years..
FWIW - I witnessed that all close by because I was involved with Nettwerk Records and knew people on the scene who were working with her.
I even played on demos for the Solace album and even 2 album tracks (but got replaced later by the Neville Bros bass player !
)..
I think I ended up on the thank you's tho..
Even though the label clearly saw a lot of potential in her & were channeling lots of resources to the Sarah project, I don't think ANYONE could have predicted her eventual huge success in the USA back then...
FWIW 2 - the manager Terry McBride was 'born to be a manager' IMO
...I've seen him do incredible things like stand at the gates of a troubled festival and collect cash at the door, $5 here $10 there, until ALL his artists were paid (!)..meanwhile the rest got rubber cheques from the promoter..
Also I saw at a shmooze a thon / free booze party for Nettwerk records he went onstage and announced over the mic 'all you press people, I see you standing standing at the back, you'd better come up to the front and pay attention to this band or I'm CLOSING THE BAR - I MEAN IT!'...
Incredible! And they obeyed of course cuz he wasn't bluffing..
I recall that moment crystal clear cuz I was playing in said band!