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The Online Guitar Store - Confessions of a Record Producer: How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Backbeat Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 780.2373
EAN: 9780879308742
ISBN: 0879308745
Label: Backbeat Books
Manufacturer: Backbeat Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2006-03-01
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Studio: Backbeat Books
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This enlightening book is not about how the music business should work, but how it does work. Industry insider Moses Avalon explains how producers dip into budgets, artists steal songs, and lawyers write contracts in code, showing readers how to survive these and other unfortunate situations. Deconstructing actual major-label record deals, Avalon dissects each party’s involvement and offers perspective on their actual roles, how much they got paid, and what each party's agenda really was. Engineers, managers, producers, artists, labels, and lawyers each take their turn in the hot seat. Avalon also outlines realistic alternatives for newcomers, such as "baby" production deals and vanity labels. A must for anyone trying to sort out the music industry, Confessions of a Record Producer tells it like it is.
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Summary: Confessions of a Record Producer: How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business
Comment: This is a must read. The best book to learn about the "real" music business that is on the market today. All the Moses Avalon books are required reading if you want a career in the music industry.
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Summary: Outstanding
Comment: If you any interested in self preservation in the music industry, then this book is a must! So far, I haven't read a book that breaks down the crude realities of the music industry, like he has.
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Summary: Moses Avalon - Confessions of a Record Producer
Comment: I highly recommend this book, and I do not recommend many books. I first got the book from my library, and was so interested in it that I purchesed "Confessions". It tells the whole truth about how the music business works, without using legalize. Anyone that wants to make music their business needs to know how the business works. This is the book that will educate you on the full spectrum of the business.
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Summary: Fake "record producer"
Comment: I met Moses Avalon at a conference. He admits Moses Avalon is a fake name (supposedly his real name is Josh melville). When we talked he spent the conversation trying to get me to go to a seminar-a seminar designed for lawyers although Moses has no law background. rumor is that he was never a great producer and created the personna of moses avalon to make money by selling his book. Kind of a sinner turned saint to enlighten innocent artists. It's worked. He is without a doubt a great self-promoter. I've read the book and there is some good info but other books have the similar info (what they won't tell you about the music business is a great book).
However, I have a real problem with this man turning himself into a fictional character, misrepresenting himself all to make a buck. I asked him why he changed his name. His reply was that he couldn't legally use the wrong-doers exact names without getting himself sued. So I said why was it so important to name names. he said he thought it was important to make sure they were exposed. hmmmmm. so to damage the careers of a few people, he decided to discard his whole identity. That didn't set well at all with me.
Also I have a problem with his negative comments regarding CD Baby. I am not friends with Derek Sivers, but I've heard him speak and met him a few times. This guy works his butt off and has opened more doors for independent artists than anyone else in the music business.
I am not saying 'moses avalon' doesn't have any information to give because he has been around the business and is very smart. However I do doubt his credentials and wonder at the extremes of his behavior. But there are real producers who have written books/articles with actual credentials. I'd rather get their advice.
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Summary: A little too dry for my taste
Comment: I`m not saying this is a bad book but it is a little on the dry side. The stories are supposedly fact but there seems too be a little too much of the same thing going on so the book could have been 1/2 the length.
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