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Slick, I do appreciate your comments. We got tons of reviews, but they don't sell that many records and they don't count for much when you're trying to book a tour. Plus there's a ton of underground metal zines. When you're pushing fairly mainstream stuff, like me, there's just less publications for it. We got as far as a review in Circus and tons of smaller zines. The 4 grand was for a radio promoter. We had a single spinning on 30 commercials stations at about 350 spins/week and cracked Gavin's radio charts ahead of bands like U2. Our tour fell through when our drummer quit and our agent had a nervous breakdown. C'est la vie.
And I certainly agree that Napster is a fantastic way of promoting new bands if it's kept under control. That means one or two freebies, not the whole album. And you can bet the labels are already using it this way.
As for the bands who aren't on radio, MTv and the mags, they can't sell those cheaper because they're already losing their asses on them. All the behind the scenes stuff is still going on. It just isn't working for whatever reason. When you pay $16 for the new Offspring CD, the company is trying to recoup what they lost on Joe Barband show didn't sell shit.
The label system isn't perfect, but when I need a half million bucks to launch a full scale national assault, Wells Fargo ain't gonna cough it up.
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