bmusic - Newsletter No. 262

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Newsletter No.262
July 29th - August 11th 2007

I was directed to a New York Times article on Prince this week that made for fascinating reading. I knew the guy had some successful alternative ideas for his marketing, sometimes landing him into some serious countractual dramas. But he's stuck to his guns, fought out one of those contracts very cleverly, made some moves that many would never ever dare to consider, and come out of it doing pretty good for himself indeed.

NY Times Article
July 22, 2007
The Once and Future Prince
By JON PARELES
I’VE got lots of money!” Prince exults in “The One U Wanna C,” a come-on from his new album, “Planet Earth” (Columbia). There’s no reason to disbelieve him. With a sponsorship deal here and an exclusive show there, worldwide television appearances and music given away, Prince has remade himself as a 21st-century pop star. As recording companies bemoan a crumbling market, Prince is demonstrating that charisma and the willingness to go out and perform are still bankable. He doesn’t have to go multiplatinum — he’s multiplatform.

Although Prince declined to be interviewed about “Planet Earth,” he has been highly visible lately. His career is heading into its fourth decade, and he could have long since become a nostalgia act. Instead he figured out early how to do what he wants in a 21st-century music business, and clearly what he wants is to make more music. Despite his flamboyant wardrobe and his fixation on the color purple, his career choices have been savvy ones, especially for someone so compulsively prolific.

Like most pop stars, he goes on major tours to coincide with album releases, which for Prince are frequent. But he also gets out and performs whenever he chooses. Last year he took over a club in Las Vegas and renamed it 3121, after his 2006 album “3121,” which briefly hit No. 1 and spawned multiple conflicting theories about the significance of the number. He started playing there twice a week for 900 people at $125 a ticket. In February he had an audience in the millions as the halftime entertainment for the Super Bowl. He has gone on to play well-publicized shows at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood for a few hundred people paying $3,121 per couple, and another elite show last weekend in East Hampton for about $3,000 per person.

Meanwhile Verizon put Prince in commercials that use “Guitar,” another song from “Planet Earth,” as bait for its V Cast Song ID service, making the song a free download to certain cellphones. On July 7 Prince introduced a perfume, 3121, by performing at Macy’s in Minneapolis.

In Britain he infuriated retailers by agreeing to have a newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, include the complete “Planet Earth” CD in copies on July 15. (The album is due for American release this Tuesday.) Presumably The Mail paid him something in the range of what he could have earned, much more slowly, through album sales. British fans have remunerated him in other ways. On Aug. 1 he starts a string of no fewer than 21 sold-out arena concerts, 20,000 seats each, at the O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome) in London at the relatively low ticket price of £31.21, about $64. The O2 ticket price also includes a copy of the album; Prince did the same thing with his tour for “Musicology” in 2004. Those “Musicology” albums were counted toward the pop charts, which then changed their rules; the “Planet Earth” albums will not be. But fans will have the record.

Prince’s priorities are obvious. The main one is getting his music to an audience, whether it’s purchased or not. “Prince’s only aim is to get music direct to those that want to hear it,” his spokesman said when announcing that The Mail would include the CD. (After the newspaper giveaway was announced, Columbia Records’ corporate parent, Sony Music, chose not to release “Planet Earth” for retail sale in Britain.) Other musicians may think that their best chance at a livelihood is locking away their music — impossible as that is in the digital era — and demanding that fans buy everything they want to hear. But Prince is confident that his listeners will support him, if not through CD sales then at shows or through other deals.

This is how most pop stars operate now: as brand-name corporations taking in revenue streams from publishing, touring, merchandising, advertising, ringtones, fashion, satellite radio gigs or whatever else their advisers can come up with. Rare indeed are holdouts like Bruce Springsteen who simply perform and record. The usual rationale is that hearing a U2 song in an iPod commercial or seeing Shakira’s face on a cellphone billboard will get listeners interested in the albums that these artists release every few years after much painstaking effort.

But Prince is different. His way of working has nothing to do with scarcity. In the studio — he has his own recording complex, Paisley Park near Minneapolis — he is a torrent of new songs, while older, unreleased ones fill the archive he calls the Vault. Prince apparently has to hold himself back to release only one album a year. He’s equally indefatigable in concert. On the road he regularly follows full-tilt shows — singing, playing, dancing, sweating — with jam sessions that stretch into the night. It doesn’t hurt that at 49 he can still act like a sex symbol and that his stage shows are unpredictable.

Through it all he still aims for hit singles. Although he has delved into all sorts of music, his favorite form is clearly the four-minute pop tune full of hooks. But his career choices don’t revolve around squeezing the maximum return out of a few precious songs. They’re about letting the music flow.

Prince gravitated early to the Internet. Even in the days of dial-up he sought to make his music available online, first as a way of ordering albums and then through digital distribution. (He was also ahead of his time with another form of communication: text messaging abbreviations, having long ago traded “you” for “U.”) Where the Internet truism is that information wants to be free, Prince’s corollary is that music wants to be heard. If that is of interest to you, you must check out the rest of the article. It spells out some very interesting points about Prince's career. One could be cynical and suggest that the Prince approach would not have been possible hadn't record labels done the earlier work with him in allowing him to access the millions of fans he has in the first place. But, by degrees, much of what Prince is doing can be done by anyone if approached carefully, creatively, and skillfully. One paragraph in the article touches on the idea that without the label things might have been very different for Prince. The idea behind long-term recording contracts is that a label will invest in building a career. But Prince (in part because of Warner Brothers’ promotion) has been a full-fledged star since the ’80s. So now a label’s main job for him is to get the CDs into stores. But by the same token, many of today's acts have put themselves in positions where the label's only job is to get the albums into stores after creating the demand for their music in those very stores all on their own.

Just with any industry, things are always changing. There's still the very real issue of piracy that hangs over the recording caper. I've tremendous respect for those artists and bands who are moving on regardless of that, I can't wait to see what clever moves will be made by artists that manage to bypass the labels almost entirely. I look forward to the day an act can dominate and capture the imagination of most of a generation through their music like in decades past. I've mentioned it before, I don't think labels want to see 'superacts' the likes of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Police, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Nirvana or Eminem. If a single act had a generation hanging on it's every move, I believe it would be too dangerous a position for the labels to be in. If that act told all their fans to download their music instead of buying it, how many fans listen to them? If that act got out of a contract and led the way into a self-distribution boom, what sort of damage could that do to the business interests of labels. Man, how good would that be? But, as I said, I think labels are deliberately pumping out a lot of acts to cash in on quickly rather than concentrating on a handful of big acts and nurturing careers that could span decades. This way they can always remain bigger than the artist themselves in terms of the game.

So props to the little bloke Prince, like him or not, you've got to hand it to him.

This issue's Where Are They Now? is a repeat with some interesting updates. We are often asked about this band so thought it time to give it another run anyway.

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In 1955, Savoy Records announced that those wanting to record "cover" versions of songs must obtain permission from the U.S. copyright office before doing so. This was in response to the vast amount of pop hits of the day which were remakes, particularly of R&B hits, which were being recorded with no permission at all.

In 1955, Bill Haley filed a lawsuit against David Miller of Essex Records claiming the recordings were of "inferior quality to the plaintiff's current releases".

In 1957, the Everly Brothers premiered "Wake Up Little Susie" during an appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show."

In 1959, the beginning of the end of the Platters' career began when members Tony Williams, David Lynch, Alex Hodge and Paul Rabi were all arrested in a hotel in Cincinnati. Detectives found the four black men in various stages of undress with four nineteen year old women, three of whom were white, after a tip-off from an employee of the hotel.
The men were charged with aiding and abetting prostitution, lewdness and assignation. They were all acquitted in December of the same year but the episode, which many suggest was fueled by racism, took its toll on the Platters' career.

In 1961, the Beatles began their two-year, more than 300 show, residency at Liverpool's Cavern Club.

In 1963, Eric Clapton quit The Roosters and formed Casey Jones And The Engineers.

In 1963, the Beatles played their last gig at the legendary Cavern Club in Liverpool.

In 1966, John Lennon's comment that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ, actually made to a reporter several months earlier, was widely reported around the globe. The statement caused a public outcry and bonfires of Beatle records. Lennon later apologised for the comment.

In 1966, the Beatles' album "Revolver" was released in Britain.

In 1967, Pink Floyd's first album, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn," was released in Britain.

In 1969, Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys was indicted for failure to report for civilian duty in lieu of serving two years in the army. Wilson did report to the L.A. County Hospital at his appointed date. However, he conducted music classes for handicapped patients rather than to act as an institutional helper.

In 1969, the famous cover shot of The Beatles Abbey Road album was taken outside Abbey Road Studios in London.

In 1969, Diana Ross invited 350 guests to a Beverly Hills club to see the newest Motown act, The Jackson 5.

In 1970, Janis Joplin bought a tombstone for blues singer Bessie Smith's unmarked grave in a Philadelphia cemetery. Less than two months later, Joplin herself was dead of a drug overdose. Smith had died following an auto accident in 1942 at the age of 37.

In 1970, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Looking Out My Back Door" was released.

In 1970, Christine McVie became the first female member of the British rock band Fleetwood Mac. McVie was the wife of the group's bassist, John McVie, and had previously performed with the blues rock band Chicken Shack.

In 1972, Elvis and Priscilla Presley filed for divorce after just over three years of marriage.

In 1973, after seeing KISS play at a New York hotel, producer Bill Aucion offered to become their manager and promised the glam rockers a record deal.

In 1973, Stevie Wonder was seriously injured when the car he was riding in collided with a truck in Salisbury, North Carolina. Wonder spent four days in a coma, but recovered with only his sense of smell seriously damaged.

In 1974, actress Faye Dunaway married Peter Wolf, lead singer for the J. Geils Band, in Beverly Hills, California. The couple divorced in 1978.

In 1974, guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and drummer Jim Hodder left their rock group Steely Dan. Members of the Steely Dan touring group, drummer Jeff Porcaro and keyboardist Michael McDonald, replaced them.

In 1975, Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and his family were taken to hospital in the back of an open fruit truck after being seriously injured when his wife Maureen drove their rental car over a cliff and into a tree. The Plants were vacationing on the Greek island of Rhodes.

In 1977, "Elvis - What Happened," an expose by two of Presley's former bodyguards, was published. It sat in bookstores almost unnoticed until Presley's death two weeks later. Then it sold more than three-million copies.

In 1980, Todd Rundgren's home in Woodstock, New York was invaded by four masked men. Rundgren, his girlfriend and three houseguests were bound and gagged while the masked men stripped the house of valuables. Reportedly, one of the thieves hummed Rundgren's "I Saw the Light" during the heist.

In 1983, rock singer David Crosby, reported to have slept through most of the trial, was sentenced to eight years in prison for drug and firearms possession. He was paroled in 1986.

In 1985, Michael Jackson paid US$47.5 million for the ATV music catalogue, which includes 251 Lennon/McCartney songs. Jackson is rumoured to have since signed over half of the catalogue to Sony Music to cover debts he'd incurred with the company.

In 1985, Duran Duran's lead singer Simon LeBon was rescued by the British Royal Navy after spending 40 minutes trapped in an underwater air pocket following the capsizing of his boat during a race off the English coast.

In 1986, a judge in Los Angeles dismissed a lawsuit against Ozzy Osbourne by the parents of a teenage suicide victim. The 19 year-old had killed himself while listening to Osbourne's "Suicide Solution."

In 1986, after serving his sentence for drug possession and weapons violations David Crosby was released from prison.

In 1989, Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" was the first album to be released legally in the Soviet Union.

In 1990, singer Curtis Mayfield was paralyzed after a tower fell on him before a concert in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1990, three bandits, armed with handguns and a replica hand grenade, robbed a New Kids On The Block concert at Montreal's Olympic Stadium in Canada. US$300,000 worth of merchandising receipts were stolen during the hold-up.

In 1992, fans rioted at a Metallica/Guns 'N' Roses show in Montreal, Canada. Fans were displeased after both bands cut their sets short. Metallica singer/guitarist James Hetfield was injured by a pyrotechnic explosion and Axl W. Rose lost his voice.

In 1996, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen pleaded guilty to spousal battery for choking his wife and slamming her head into a wall at Los Angeles International Airport.

In 1996, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that two former members of the Teenagers waited too long to claim their rights as co-writers of the group's 1955 hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" A previous court ruling had found that Jimmy Merchant and Herman Santiago were entitled to royalties for co-writing the song with lead singer Frankie Lymon. Lymon died of a heroin overdose in 1968.

In 2002, police in Beverly Hills issued a warrant for the arrest of Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil, who allegedly attacked a record producer in a nightclub parking lot. Neil's management issued a statement saying, "Vince Neil has fully cooperated with the L.A. County investigators. We believe that the charges against him are ridiculous and that he will be fully exonerated."

In 2002, rock 'n' roll memorabilia sunk to new depths when the tour bus Drowning Pool singer Dave Williams died on was offered for auction by it's owner on auction site eBay. Action was promptly taken and the offensive listing was removed.

In 2003, former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic announced his retirement from commercial music, disillusioned by the industry. He made the following official statement on the web site of his band at the time, Eyes Adrift:

What next? As far as the music industry goes, I quit. I can’t deal. I can’t read the magazines, listen to the radio or watch music television without feeling like I’ve just come in from outer space. I just don’t get it and I probably never did. My lot in life is that every band I’ve ever been in just falls apart. That hurts but I’ve got a thick hide from years of conditioning. Now please take note that I haven’t quit music, I’ve just quit the business. (I can’t complain about the business side of Nirvana. I’m not crying a river by any means.) I want to play more with Curt and Bud, they’re too good for me not to plug in my bass thus plugging into the cosmo-stream of transcendental rocking good times that those two charge me with.

I’m relatively young (38) and I want to follow my compulsions. I have big plans for 2004. Next year will be a pivotal year politically for every one of us in the USA and for myself, even more so. I’ve come off of nine years of political success and see some real opportunities to make change. You’ll all hear about my plans soon enough. If you’ve been following my politics, you know that I will continue to work for inclusion, fairness and freedom."

I have no idea whether he made good on his political plans this year. He did write political paper/slash memoir that will be published next month, it's title a nod to the era that made him famous, Of Grunge & Government: Let's Fix this Broken Democracy! There is more information on the 125 page paper HERE

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Births In 1909, inventor of Fender guitar and amps, Leo Fender, was born.

In 1936, Elsberry Hobbs, bass singer with The Drifters, beginning in 1959.

In 1938, Isaac Hayes, one of the most important forces in the development of Memphis soul music, was born in Covington, Tennessee.
He played piano in the house band at Stax Records in the 1960's, and also began composing hit songs, such as "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Coming" for Sam and Dave and "BABY" for Carla Thomas.
Hayes's 1969 album "Hot Buttered Soul" established his reputation as a performer. The lushly orchestrated and often lengthy songs that became his trademark laid the foundation for the disco music of such artists as Barry White. Hayes himself, with tights, cape and gold chains around his bare chest was the '70s forerunner to Mr. T.
Hayes's commercial peak came in 1971 with his double soundtrack album for "Shaft." "The Theme From Shaft" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and made Hayes an international superstar. But by 1976, mismanagement and personal excesses had forced Isaac Hayes into bankruptcy.
He made several comeback attempts, one of them in 1979 producing the gold album, "Don't Let Go." He is currently the voice of 'Chef' on the hit adult cartoon "South Park".

In 1940, Righteous Brother Bobby Hadfield.

In 1941, guitarist and vocalist David Crosby.

In 1942, Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist and driving force behind the Grateful Dead, was born in San Francisco. Garcia died of a heart attack on August 9th, 1995, at a residential treatment centre in Forest Knolls, California. He had reportedly gone there to battle his heroin addiction.

In 1942, John (Jay) David, former drummer with Dr. Hook.

In 1946, Golden Earring bassist/keyboard player Rinus Gerritsen.

In 1947, Jethro Tull vocalist and flautist Ian Anderson.

In 1947, the Ronettes lead singer Ronnie Spector.

In 1949, Dire Straits Mark Knopfler.

In 1953, blues guitarist and singer Robert Cray.

In 1955, The Cars bassist Benjamin Orr. Orr passed away in October, 200 after battling pancreatic cancer, being diagnosed with the disease in April, 2000.

In 1958, Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson.

In 1958, Chris (Chrissy Boy) Thompson of the group Madness.

In 1959, Joe Elliot, lead singer of Def Leppard.

In 1959, Pete Burns of British dance group Dead or Alive.

In 1959, singer Suzanne Vega.

In 1960, Steven Kaufmann of metal band Accept.

In 1961, Dave (the Edge) Evans of U2.

In 1965, Adam Yauch, aka MCA, of the Beastie Boys.

In 2002, Christine Anu and her partner, Rodger Corser, celebrated the birth of Anu's second child Zipporah Mary Corser. Named after Christine's mother, Zipporah is a sister for Kuiam.

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Deaths In 1958, Elvis Presley's mother, Gladys, died of a heart attack due to liver complications at the age of 42.

In 1968, Luther Perkins, the guitar player who backed Johnny Cash on his original Sun recordings in the 1950's, died.

In 1971, legendary saxophonist King Curtis was stabbed to death outside his New York home. He was 37. Curtis appeared on many hits in the 50's and 60's, including the Coasters hit, "Yakety Yak."

In 1972, Brian Cole, bass guitarist and vocalist with The Association, died in Los Angeles of a heroin overdose. He was 28.

In 1973, dixieland jazz guitarist Eddie Condon died in New York of a bone disease at the age of 67.

In 1973, one of the original Temptations, Paul Williams, was found dead by police. His death was ruled a suicide. He was 34.

In 1975, jazz alto saxophonist Julian (Cannonball) Adderley died of a stroke at the age of 47.

In 1978, Pete Meaden, the Who's publicist and manager in their High Number days, committed suicide in London by ingesting an overdose of barbituates. He was 35.

In 1986, 27 year-old US musician, Michael Rudetski, died of a drug overdose at the London home owned by Boy George. Boy George was not in the house at the time. One week earlier, Boy George had been fined for heroin possession.

In 1987, country singer Kenny Price, known as the "Round Mound of Sound" because of his girth, died of a heart attack in Florence, Kentucky. He was 56. Price was known to TV viewers as Elrod the sheriff on the "Hee-Haw" series.

In 1988, guitarist Roy Buchanan hanged himself in a jail in Fairfax, Virginia.

In 1992, drummer Jeff Porcaro of Toto dropped dead while spraying pesticides in the garden of his suburban Los Angeles home. It was first thought that Porcaro, who was 38, had suffered an allergic reaction to the pesticide. But an autopsy revealed that his death was related to hardening of the arteries stemming from cocaine use.

In 1992, The Platters' lead singer Tony Williams died from diabetes and emphysema. He was 64.

In 1994, Italian singer Domenico Modugno, whose "Volare" topped the US charts in 1958, died of a heart attack near his home on the island of Lampedusa. He was 66.

In 1995, Jerry Garcia, suffered a fatal heart attack. Besides gaining cult status as a Grateful Dead member, Garcia also played for 'Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions' and 'The Warlocks'. Garcia was undergoing drug rehabilitation at the time of his death.

In 1996, Mel Taylor, drummer for the Ventures, died of lung cancer at the age of 62.

In 1997, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a giant of world music, died of sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 48. Pearl Jam fans will remember him as the Sri Lankan guy who sang alongside Eddie Vedder on the song 'Long Road'. Nusrat was on his way from Lahore, Pakistan to Los Angeles to receive a kidney transplant when he fell ill en route in London.

In 1999, Bob Herbert, Spice Girls 'inventor' and manager and manager of boy band Five, was killed in a car accident.

In 2000, Mark Hickey, singer for hard core punk rock outfit, Aggression, died of liver and kidney failure. He was 42.

In 2001, singer/guitarist Chris Williams died when the car he was driving veered off the road and plunged 600 feet. His bandmates were bass player Berry Oakley Jr., the son of The Allman Brothers' Berry Oakley, drummer Alex Orbison, the son of Roy Orbison and guitarist Duane Betts, the son of The Allman Brothers' Dickey Betts. Chris Williams was born to his father, songwriter Jerry Lynn Williams, in 1970.

In 2001, mouth organist Larry Adler. Born in 1914, Adler's career involved work with George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, Jack Benny, Django Reinhardt and Sting.

In 2001, blues Saxophonist, Ray "Daddy" Arvizu. He died of respiratory infection, thought to have been linked to a freak accident five years earlier when a piece of nightclub ceiling fell on him, broke his back and led to pulmonary hypertension. He was 48.

In 2002, Daniel Kelly, patriarch of Irish-American folk-pop group the Kelly Family, died in Berlin after a long illness. He was 71.

In 2002, Dave Williams, frontman for up and coming heavy rock group 'Drowning Pool' was found dead on the band's tour bus by a crew member. The band were on a day off from the U.S. OzzFest tour when Williams passed away. Rumours were rife as to the cause of Williams death but some weeks later the official cause of death was released. It was concluded that the 30-year-old singer died from cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle. Williams' condition, concentric left ventricular hypertrophy, prevents blood flow from the left ventricle to the right. Williams was never diagnosed with the disease, the cause of which is unknown.

In 2002, the brother of rapper Snoop Dogg was found dead in Las Vegas after a shoot out with police. It was alleged that Jermaine Fuller, the brother of Snoop's wife Shante, died of a self inflicted gun shot wound caused during the police altercation, or afterwards back at his apartment.

In 2005, Australian R & B producer and musician Darren Dowlut. Darren and his brother Dennis were the men behind Disco Montego, not only the group by the same name that secured Top 5 hits in Australia with "Beautiful" and "Magic" (featuring former Bardot member Katie Underwood) and a Number 1 in many European markets with "Autumn Breeze", but as remixers and producers having remixed Mariah Carey's "Boy". With the success of the Mariah Carey remix Disco Montego were about to base themselves in the US with work on the plate for Elton John and Blue, amongst others. It was in preparation for the relocation that Dowlut was diagnosed with chest cancer, a little over a month before his death. Before forming Disco Montegoo and their company Bomb Music, the brothers played a more public role as R & B act Kaylan. Not happy with the way their Kaylan work was received and packaged they opted to change tack with Disco Montego..

In 2006 prolific songwriter and frontman for 60s psychedelic West Coast US band Love, Arthur Lee passed away after a battle with leukemia. Although Love were shortlived, lasting only around three years, Arthur Lee continued to write for both himself and other artists. One of his early songwriting credits outside his own recorded material was for Rosa Lee Brooks, a recording on which Jimi Hendrix provided session guitar. Other artists to have recorded Lee's songs include Boo Radleys, Alice Cooper, The Damned, The Hooters, Lenny Kravitz, Lime Spiders, Matthew Sweet, Ramones, Robert Plant, Sarah Brightman and Urge Overkill. Arthur had returned to performing live in his last few years, seeing a revival in his material of the 60s. In late June, 2006 Robert Plant, Ryan Adams, Ian Hunter, Nils Lofgren, Yo La Tengo and Garland Jefferys performed together at a benefit for Lee at New York's Beacon Theatre.

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