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Startin' A Band (Or All The Stuff No One Told Me)
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ISBN10: 1937829545
ISBN13: 9781937829544
Publisher: Total Pub & Media
Published: Nov 21 2012
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781937829544
Publisher: Total Pub & Media
Published: Nov 21 2012
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Have you dreamed about a career in the music business? You NEED this book. - Straight talk; not a lot of blah, blah - The REAL music business; not fairy tales - Laugh while you learn - Guarantees of the business Some acclaim for previous editions: Randy absolutely nails the way our kind lives and what we deal with. - Bugs Henderson This book doesn't sugar coat nor does it stroke the musician's ego. - Janice Sizemore Ballard conveys the cold, hard facts of the brutal music biz, all while making the reader laugh... continuously. - Anastasia Karalekas, The Muse's News
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