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Music Business and Monkey Business

Music Business and Monkey Business

McGuire, Doug

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsHumorGeneral Music

ISBN10: 1452011451
ISBN13: 9781452011455
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jul 22 2010
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is how simple the complicated music business can be! I was sitting shooting the bull with the A&R man at Epic Records one day. He said, You know what I would really like to find is a white kid that sings the blues like a black guy. I said, I know a kid like that, or words to that effect. I then told him what I knew about Tim Williams. Tim was starving to death trying to run a Coffee House in Santa Barbara. He was only nineteen-years old, but very good. The problem was that I had no idea what to do with a Blues singer. Suddenly there was an answer to the question. The A&R man said, Bring him down! which meant to his office in Hollywood. When the day came to go to Hollywood we went in my car. I didn't think he had one that would make it down and back. He showed up in a pair of dark brown corduroy pants and a dark polo-type shirt, both clean, but covered with white lint. I was embarrassed to showcase him that way, but it could have been a sensitive subject so away we went. I didn't have a clue what to expect when we arrived at the office. In the now familiar get-to-the-point fashion the man said, Let's hear something after a few minutes of visiting. Tim opened his guitar case, took out his twelve string guitar and began playing as if the outcome didn't make a damn bit of difference to him. Mr. A&R man asked him to do some old standard, then something original that Tim had written. Then suddenly he said, Sounds good, let's do a thing, make a record! Just like that!

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