posted 03-21-2002 04:25 PM            

Just using you guys as a good example of an underground band (that Felix works with and likes) that wouldn't be hurt by a big-time sound. No one with half a brain would accuse you of selling out or going for the "bigs"..

I'm NOT saying that it would be worth sucking the corporate teat to GET the $ for that big-time sound..

posted 03-22-2002 04:33 AM         

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Originally posted by RC:

[B]Flyer, I think you want to know more about the actual dollar amount for Helmet and the Atlantic deal and not the mechanics of how the label worked. I don't know the dollar amount and it's none of my business.

-It's not so much the dollar amount per se. Am I curious and nosey enough to wanna know?
Yes. Is the AMOUNT important to the story of how the label evolved? Not really. What I'm really trying to find out is if my assumptions regarding what the deal, or if Helmet was the chief catalyst, brought to the label to make it what it became. My understanding, and you or anyone else who cares to can either correct me and/or fill in the blanks are as follows: That Hazelmeyer didn't really set out to start AmRep as a label per se, that it was basically a vehicle to put out his own band's stuff, and people thought it was a record label, and sent him stuff hoping he'd put in out, which is what I seem to remember reading in an interview with him years ago.I already touched on the decimal point thing, but I assume that or the Atlantic deal itself lead to AmRep getting their own offices outside of Twin/Tone, and their own studio too? Then, I guess I've assumed that the money hopefully made by the people/label was the catalyst for what created Grumpy's. Basically, what I guess I'm looking for is what was created, directly or indirectly, from what they got out of being associated with a major, sort of a cause and effect thing. Does that clarify it?

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posted 03-23-2002 06:41 AM         

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Originally posted by Ollie Stench:
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The only problem I have with band members running a label is they can't devote 100% of their energy into selling reocrds. That's the problem the Subversives have been having for the last 4 years. We were signed to GMM Records, a label owned and run by Mark Noah of the Anti-Heros. He is also a pilot for UPS. Whenever we'd try to get in touch with him he was always either on the road with the band or in the air with work. After 2 years and many unfulfilled promises we got an offer from Charged Records, owned by Jake of the Casualties. Jake actually pursued us and made all these promises. He put us in a studio right away, but then the Casualties had to tour so he was gone for 2 months. H got back, did some more Casualties business, didn't return any of our phone calls or emails, wen't back out on the road with the Warped Tour, and then toured for another month on their own. Our record was supposed to be out in January, now it's looking like May, over a year after it was recorded.

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Didn't Resistance Records try to woo you guys, and then changed their minds when they found out that you weren't "German" enough for them?

posted 03-27-2002 09:36 AM         

I don't mean to disrupt the more reasonable flow of this message board, but wow. I go away and don't read this for over a week, and see what happens...

posted 03-29-2002 02:00 AM         

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Originally posted by cHaOsPuNKgIRL:

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Does anyone know what the info is on Kim Shattucks record label Sympathy for the Record Industry, ?
Does anyone here know if Sympathy has anything to do with Warner Brothers?

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-I don't think the Muffs have been on Reprise (Warner's) for a few years now. I do believe that's a done deal. I don't think Sympathy has ANYTHING to do with Warner's either. The White Stripes are on Sympathy, and they're doing pretty well. It said in an article on them that Sympathy is run by one man, and he's put out a single or album every week for the past 14 years or so, apparently totaling some 500 releases.

posted 03-29-2002 10:06 AM         

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Originally posted by cHaOsPuNKgIRL:
So....The Muffs have been a favorite band of mine since I was a teeny-bopper.
Does anyone know what the info is on Kim Shattucks record label Sympathy for the Record Industry, does anyone know the details with the local band The Short Fuses and how they're doing on her label?
I'm really curious to find out how she runs her label. Especially since The Muffs signed to Warner Brothers?!? Does anyone here know the details on this transition and if Sympathy has anything to do with Warner Brothers?

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Sympathy is run by a guy named Long Gone John and they have indeed put out an insane amount of records. It is distributed by Mordam Records and does not have anything to do with Warner Brothers.

I'm not a huge expert on The Muffs, but I do know they were on a major. I believe they were subsequently dropped after one record and then put out a record on Honest Don's, which is a sub-label of Fat Wreck Chords and then the last one, Hamburger, was on Sympathy. I believe that was a compilation of singles and older stuff.