From: owner-canadian-music-digest@smoe.org (canadian-music-digest) To: canadian-music-digest@smoe.org Subject: canadian-music-digest V3 #87 Reply-To: canadian-music@smoe.org Sender: owner-canadian-music-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-canadian-music-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk canadian-music-digest Sunday, December 10 2000 Volume 03 : Number 087 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: courtney love vs. terry mcbride [torontofumblers] ["Tabassum Siddiqui] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 20:44:47 From: "Tabassum Siddiqui" Subject: Re: courtney love vs. terry mcbride [torontofumblers] Julian wrote: >>http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicArtistsL/love_courtney.html#111800 > >It definitely gives a fascinating glimpse at what happened between > >Nettwerk and the Strawbs. As a general remark -- it seems that as >more >time goes by, and more of Terry McBride's antics are exposed, >the more he >comes across as just another money-grubbing >record-company-exec-asshole -- >the only difference is that he runs a >smaller record company. I don't know >when this transformation >occurred -- remember the days when Nettwerk was seen as a small-act > >friendly label? As such, I'm increasingly convinced that the success >of >Sarah McLachlan has completely gone to their heads and they've >adopted the >philosophy of "join 'em if you can't beat 'em". Absolutely. As Kim Hughes wrote in a review of 'Christmas Songs' recently: "Yet another way for Nettwerk to pimp Sarah McLachlan." Ouch. Harsh, maybe, but so true. And as they increasingly turn their attention to the management side of things with 'big names' like Dido, BNL, The New Deal and others, they're moving farther and farther away from their original 'indie' mandate that so appealed to many of us in the '90s. There's no denying they're doing some serious good work in the management department with Terry's patented 'micro-managing' formula that broke Sarah and BNL and now is being applied with artists like Tara and Dido, but the innovativeness and spunk that set them apart from all the other labels before seems to have pretty much withered away in the attempt to play with the big guns. >P.S. In a bizarre six degrees type twist on the article, Keram > >Malicki-Sanchez is mentioned near the end of the story. Keram is also > >the co-founder of the Dreaming Network, where Aquezada Productions is > >hosted (and where I'm an assistant sysadmin). Thought that was > >interesting! That guy is everywhere! He used to study film at Ryerson and I'd see him around campus sometimes. (Some of you will remember him from that prime slice of '90s TV cheese, "Catwalk". ;-)) Last I heard he'd gone out to L.A. to work on his music thing... - - Tab :) _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of canadian-music-digest V3 #87 ***********************************