At 4:53 in the video you can see a young Richard Branson before he became a capitalist tycoon.
At 4:53 in the video you can see a young Richard Branson before he became a capitalist tycoon.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
The head of Cuneiform Records could be a capitalist tycoon if the listening public had better taste.
here's the complete footage:
http://www.ina.fr/video/I12200660
p.s. folks interested in this sort of thing should be on the avant-progressive facebook site that Udi runs, which is where I saw the notice about the footage about 2 weeks ago.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/309238555789909/
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Not sure what Branson would've become if Tubular Bells had not made a fortune... it was a pretty risqué move, even for the hippie he was...
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
OMG!
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Good God.
The sound of drums in the 70s was heaven in aural form.
Please don't ask questions, just use google.
Never let good music get in the way of making a profit.
I'm only here to reglaze my bathtub.
He'd be a record store manager, just like he was before Tubular Bells came out.
The bigger question is, what would have happened to the various bands and artists who were subsequently signed to Virgin, if Tubular Bells had tanked. Do you think anyone else would have the presence of mind to sign Tangerine Dream, Gong, Hatfield And The North, or Japan?
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
This, plus the fact that the bands contractually payed for everything, including overpriced studio bills at Virgin's own Manor Studios. This is why Hatfield earned nothing from their albums until the early 2000's, why Henry Cow never earned anything from their Virgin albums at all, and why Robert Wyatt, upon discovering that if he kept making for records for Virgin, would only increase his debt towards them further, instead released nothing under his own name between 1975-80. (And only resumed recording when he found another label - Rough Trade - and discovered Virgin's contract didn't encompass singles - so his only releases for RT at first were singles)
In other words, Mike Oldfield's success was mostly beneficial to Virgin's chiefs and employees and to a lesser degree, Oldfield himself - who only attained relative wealth because he sold millions of copies of TB, albeit with a ridiculous proportion of the sales going into his own pocket.
Well, especially when handled by someone like Cutler. But then again there was never anyone who sounded quite like him, even back then. The drum sound - and performance of the battery - on Unrest remains one of my favorite percussion workouts on any "rock" album. I don't think I ever heard anyone ever play that economically, yet with such precision, lightness and profound attention to quantitative detail. The drumming after things get going (post-piano intro) in the above mentioned "Half Asleep; Half Awake" is quite simply astounding, IMHO. As is the whole of "Ruins".
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
while I agree with what you say, though I had no idea that bands had to pay so expensive the in-house studio... But if that was the case, HChad no money to pay... and never sold enough albums to reimburse Virgin, right?? How did Branson recuperate, the spent dough??
Virgin does have at least the merit: that without them, HC albums would've never seen the light of the day... For everybody's enjoyment
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
This was a process that went on for years, certainly in Hatfield's or Gong's case the "debt" was reimbursed through Virgin keeping the entire proceeds of their album sales until said "debt" was recouped.
More from Chris Cutler himself : "Naturally all the Manor bills to us were high while our royalty per LP sold was extremely low. So we were always in paper debt. Years later, when the group broke up, the Inland Revenue sent us a bill for thousands of pounds for the 'advances' Virgin had told them we had received. These advances being the studio bills. We told the revenue that we'd never received a penny from our records, nor any advances and that in fact, according to Virgin's accounting, we still owed them thousands. The revenue wasn't interested. Legally Virgin's studio bills were advances, so we owed the taxes".
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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