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pidunk 04:21 am UTC 06/10/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Sonnenberg said this in the Classic Albums DVD. (n/m) - pidunk 03:00 am UTC 06/10/07 |
| This is from a pdf document doing double duty as a webpage at this location where the leading paragraph mentioned the difficulty getting the deal for Bat Out Of Hell. I want to state that in the echelon of the makings of record deals, it is a hierarchy of credibilities and influences that exists. Least chances are individual submissions to A&R, next least chance through a Manager's submissions, but when an entertainment lawyer makes the shopping rounds, he does not necessarily manage the act, but often this overlaps as a natural progression which happened in Sonnenberg's case. Sonnenberg as an entertainment lawyer had the most traditionally capable set of opportunities in the music industry, and struggled a full two years to get this deal sealed. The frustration was out of proportion from any other experience I have heard of for an entertainment lawyer, who has a built-in set of contacts of people willing to take a chance. No such dice for our boys, Jim and Meat. And so it is natural to question why, natural to question how, and to make observations that one could blithely make twenty years down the line. True or not in the factual sense, we can't establish that on the board, but possibly true, I can establish that well enough in my own opinion.
> > > > Oh yeah I know, thats why i like the line. big fan of > > hilarious exaggerations. i was going to paraphrase it in > > a movie review, but i didnt want to attribute it to meat > > if it was jim or vice versa. > > It does seem like it is an extreme, too extreme to be > true, and that is probably why Sonnenberg could have felt > it wouldn't be taken seriously, but there is so much in > the world today like that. The fact is, it is believable, > even though it was believed to be understood as a joke. > > Kids tell classmates all the time in jokes, things that > must be taken seriously. I think of one Washington State > school massacre in particular. We no longer live in a > society where jokes are jokes for the sake of jokes. But > we do live in a society were some serious jokers think > they can say anything they want to. > > One example affects me directly: My brother, who has > threatened me with death for as long as I have known him, > took to a comedic line on the last statement he made. Does > it mean he never meant it all the times before, just > because there is a ha ha on it now? Two other people told > me independently he was talking of that. I have seen on > me, jobs created, literally created, at the expense of I > don't know how many thousands of dollars, that I was > enticed to apply for, and served as destructive elements > to an otherwise promising future. > > So, the fact that Sonnenberg said that very plausible > statement could be accidental seriousness, or part of a > distress call for the realities he has an attuned > awareness of. Either way, intended or not, it is no joke. > > > > > > > > > > and it was neither and i already wrote the review without > > it anyway hahaha. next time it comes up... > > > > > > > I don't think he meant that record labels were LITERALLY > > > created to reject the album. I'm pretty sure it's a joke. | |
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