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THE RECORDING ARTIST!- The surest way to squander your life and spend it in abject poverty is to be idiotic enough to suppose that Record Companies "need talent" or finance pipe dreams. Being in the business of being a Recording Artist is being in the Business of BEING a Recording Artist!
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THE RECORDING ARTIST!- The first consideration of any recording project is BUDGET! How much money is this turkey going to take before it grows feathers? You can't blow the whole bucket in production and expect someone else to "take it from there" unless you're a damned fool. Such typical stupidity is known as "session-rich and promotion-poor" and only a damned fool does it. Once you know how much money you have to invest, that must pay for both production and promotion, you're ready for the next step. Determining what you're going to do with the product once it's finished. And right here you have several solid choices
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THE RECORDING CONTRACT -HOW TO GET A RECORDING CONTRACT! WHAT WON'T WORK! - "Waiting to be discovered" and signing your soul away in a shelving/sweetheart contract. If you're idiotic enough for either, then the Industry wishes you a very sincere Good Riddance
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BEFORE YOU RECORD Therefore, before you record, get an Executive Producer's Record Release Agreement from one of the Super Six General Licensers
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MUSIC PRODUCTION -- DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME! A recording project is exactly like a court case: it's won or lost in preparation! Ask any attorney from the best to the most jackassed and they'll all confirm that court cases are neither won nor lost in the court room
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