Al's Blog-o-Sphere

I worked with the band Flatbed last weekend on a podcast. we had a great time and I had some great conversation with Derek Bassett from the band about the music scene.

In a followup email, he asked me the following question and I got to thinking my answer would be great material for this blog. Never mind that I got so long-winded!

Here’s the question:

We’d all like to get to know you better. For instance – How did you get started doing all of this?
Once again, I think what you are doing to help local music is freaking amazing!

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it’s the state of dissarray the music industry is in. Music is alive and well, but it’s being ignored by the mainstream media who are still pushing their plastic manufactured Barbie-doll pop-tarts and Bad-boy rappers and telling us it’s music. Continue Reading…

“I can’t stand the major labels, to tell you the truth. The major record companies have so many records that they don’t know what they have. No one returns your phone calls, so it virtually takes a miracle to contact someone there, and then they don’t get back to you when they say they will; it is a very difficult environment to work with. It is really hard; you get guys who try to tell you how to write songs. I’d rather deal with people who are interested in what I’m doing.”

From a great interview posted at BuffaloRoots.com