henchman wrote on Sat, 03 December 2005 21:37 |
Tomas Danko wrote on Fri, 02 December 2005 12:36 |
I've seen this thing happening several times over here, whenever someone writes a good song and a famous artist picks it up. The artist changes a word or three and presto, he/she will also get a piece of that action. There are some large names overseas doing this as well, then again it's all part of the game so you'll just have to deal with it.
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Yet everyone bitches and moans when the guy sitting behind the console, offering his time space and equipment for free, asks for a small percentage of publishing to make up for the time he put in. Which usually is more time than anyone else involved.
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You are very right about this. You don't start working as an audio engineer for the money, it'll be a huge disappointment in the end. Nah, as we all know you have to get into it because it's what your life is all about.
The different aspect regarding the topic stated above, is that without the artist the song won't be sold. And without changing a few words, the artist won't get the dough. So it's just the way it is. Personally I'm fine with that, I'm even fine with A&R people "improving" a song with two words because it wasn't "sellable" until after this "improvement". Whatever it takes for this A&R guy to do his best and make sure it ends up on a record. If I don't dig this, I just stay out of this kind of business.
Oh, wait. I think it's just what I did a few years ago.
Cheers,
Tomas Danko