From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V4 #262 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Saturday, November 10 2001 Volume 04 : Number 262 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Chartattack Yearly Poll [Paul Schreiber ] doves [dana wagner ] Re: doves ["mark'eee" ] OAC: Fwd from Courtney Love [Songbird22@aol.com] EC: Your Sort of Human Being Video to Premiere tonight! ["Gretchen Corl"] NEC: Chess in DC [BTJones@aol.com] John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 [fumbler@juno.com] Re: John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 ["Elizabeth Weber"] Re: John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 [Songbird22@aol.co] Re: [matt good band] John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 [] Re: [matt good band] John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:30:42 -0500 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Re: Chartattack Yearly Poll James wrote: >Slean and Gryner in the Sexiest Female Category (The Throw Your Underwear >Award Female (Sexiest Canadian Women))and Hawksely and Danny Michel in the >Sexiest Male Category. Must be those crazy Josh Cornell photos. :) Paul shad 96c / uw cs 2001 / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / jewel / sophie b. / sarah slean / steve poltz / emm gryner / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / habs / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin, 1759 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:04:40 -0800 (PST) From: dana wagner Subject: doves anyone else familiar with the band doves? i got their album "lost souls" a few months ago, on a whim after liking the song "catch the sun" that i heard on an astralwerks sampler. listened a couple times but never really got into it. then just last week i decided to pop it in and i can't stop listening! it's absolutely gorgeous. especially "the cedar room". :) highly recommended purchase. speaking of astralwerks... just heard that beth orton was signed there. not sure if that happened a while ago or what, but i think that's cool. dana Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:11:41 -0800 (PST) From: "mark'eee" Subject: Re: doves > anyone else familiar with the band doves? yup... to those people who like all those uk bands such as doves, coldplay, and badly drawn boy, check out Elbow and South.... http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005AV14/o/qid=1005293171/sr=2-1/ref=sr_bt_1/026-8562976-5202824 http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059MEI/qid=1005292910/sr=1-9/ref=sr_sp_re/026-8562976-5202824 mu - -- Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 21:47:33 EST From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: OAC: Fwd from Courtney Love This is something that was forwarded to me and mainly for artists, but I thought some of you might be interested... particularly those who have been following Love's battle w/ Universal over the past few months... this letter gives a bit of insight into the music industry... and if you're an artist and would like to contribute, please see the links and contact info below... Jess - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------- ARTIST RIGHTS AND RECORD COMPANIES Dear Fellow Recording Artists, I'm writing to ask you to join the chorus of recording artists who want us all to get a fair deal from the record companies. R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks, U2, Alanis Morrissette, Bush, Prince and Q-Tip have called me with their support and we need your participation as well. There are 3 basic facts all recording artists should know: 1. No one has ever represented the rights and interests of recording artists AS A GROUP in negotiations with record companies 2. Recording artists don't have access to quality health care and pension plans like the ones made available to actors and athletes through their unions. 3. Recording artists are paid royalties that represent a tiny fraction of the money their work earns. As I was working with my manager and my new attorneys on my lawsuit with the Universal Music Group, we realized that the most unfair clauses in my contract applied to ALL recording artists. Most importantly, no one was representing artists in an attempt to change the system. Recording artists need to form a new organization that will represent their interests in Washington and negotiate fair contract terms with record companies. Here's what you should know: THERE IS NO ONE WHO REPRESENTS RECORDING ARTISTS Recording artists don't have a single union that looks out for their interests. AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) has a contract with major labels for vocalists and the AFM (American Federation of Musicians) has a contract for non-singing musicians and session players. If you're in a band, your singer is represented by a different union (AFTRA) than the rest of your group (who are represented by the AFM). AFTRA negotiates contracts for TV and Radio performers. They don't pay very much attention to the recording business; it's not their priority. The AFM acts like band members are sidemen and session players because that's mostly who the union represents. Record companies like this system because neither union represents all artists. AFTRA and AFM only negotiate session fees and other minor issues for the singers or the "sidemen." Who looks after our interests in Washington? Until very recently, Congress believed that the RIAA spoke for recording artists. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is a trade group that is paid for by record companies to represent their interests. The Napster hearings last summer and a few other issues have let Washington know that NO ONE speaks for recording artists right now. We have their attention and must act quickly to make sure artists have a voice. RECORDING ARTISTS DON'T HAVE A SAFETY NET Compare yourself to actors and baseball players. Like the music business, the film and the sports industries generate billions of dollars in income each year, but those industries offer far better benefits to the men and women who create their wealth. The Screen Actors Guild offers a fantastic health care plan to its members. That health plan is paid for by the contracts that SAG has negotiated with film studios. The baseball player's union has negotiated a pension plan that ensures that NO major league player ever finds himself without an income. Why shouldn't recording artists get the same benefits? RECORDING ARTISTS DON'T GET PAID Record companies have a 5% success rate. That means that 5% of all records released by major labels go gold or platinum. How do record companies get away with a 95% failure rate that would be totally unacceptable in any other business? Record companies keep almost all the profits. Recording artists get paid a tiny fraction of the money earned by their music. That allows record executives to be incredibly sloppy in running their companies and still create enormous amounts for cash for the corporations that own them. The royalty rates granted in every recording contract are very low to start with and then companies charge back every conceivable cost to an artist's royalty account. Artists pay for recording costs, video production costs, tour support, radio promotion, sales and marketing costs, packaging costs and any other cost the record company can subtract from their royalties. Record companies also reduce royalties by "forgetting" to report sales figure, miscalculating royalties and by preventing artists from auditing record company books. Recording contracts are unfair and a single artist negotiating an individual deal doesn't have the leverage to change the system. Artists will finally get paid what they deserve when they band together and force the recording industry to negotiate with them AS A GROUP. Thousands of successful artists who sold hundreds of millions of records and generated billions of dollars in profits for record companies find themselves broke and forgotten by the industry they made wealthy. Here a just a few examples of what we're talking about: Multiplatinum artists like TLC ("Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg," "Waterfalls" and "No Scrubs") and Toni Braxton ("Unbreak My Heart" and "Breathe Again") have been forced to declare bankruptcy because their recording contracts didn't pay them enough to survive. Corrupt recording agreements forced the heirs of Jimi Hendrix ("Purple Haze," "All Along the Watchtower" and "Stone Free") to work menial jobs while his catalog generated millions of dollars each year for Universal Music. Florence Ballard from the Supremes ("Where Did Our Love Go," "Stop in the Name of Love" and "You Keep Me Hangin' On" are just 3 of the 10 #1 hits she sang on) was on welfare when she died. Collective Soul earned almost no money from "Shine," one of the biggest alternative rock hits of the 90s when Atlantic paid almost all of their royalties to an outside production company. Merle Haggard ("I Threw Away the Rose," "Sing Me Back Home" and "Today I Started Loving You Again") enjoyed a string of 37 top-ten country singles (including 23 #1 hits) in the 60s and 70s. Yet he never received a record royalty check until last year when he released an album on the indie punk-rock label Epitaph. Even Elvis Presley, the biggest-selling artist of all time, died with an estate valued at not even $3 million. Think of it this way: recording artists are often the writers, directors and producers of their own records. They write the songs, choose the producers and engineers who record their music, hire and oversee the photographers and designers who create their CD artwork and oversee all parts of video production, from concept to director to final edit. Record companies advance money for recording costs and provide limited marketing services for the music that artists conceive and create. In exchange, they keep almost all of the money and 100% of the copyrights. Even the most successful recording artists in history (The Beatles, The Eagles, Nirvana, Eminem) have been paid a fraction of the money they deserved from sales of their records. This is a very big and very important project and we're in the early days. Here's what we're looking for: 1. Artists who are willing to speak to the media to publicly lend their support to the idea that recording artists need an organization that represents our interests in Washington and with the record companies. We also would like you tell your managers and attorneys that you support this cause and that you expect them, as your representatives and employees to do the same. 2. Anyone who can tell us specific stories about how artists have been ripped off by record companies like the ones I told above. We're going to have to educate the public and the media and Congress and the only way we'll do that is by giving them examples they can relate to. NOW is the time for action. Artists like Garbage and N*SYNC have have joined me in questioning bad contracts and have also gone to court to change the system. Record companies have merged and re-merged to the point where they can no longer relate to their artists. Digital distribution will change the music industry forever; artists must make sure they finally get their fair share of the money their music earns. We need to come together quickly and present a united front to the industry. Your managers and attorneys will probably tell you not to rock the boat and not to risk your "relationship" with your record company by taking a stand. Most attorneys and managers are conflicted. Almost all entertainment law firms represent both artists and record companies. Lawyers can't take a stand against record companies because that's where they get most of their business. Even the best managers often have business relationships with labels and depend on record companies to refer new clients. Think about Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam's stand against TicketMaster. Everyone knew he was right and yet no other artist took a public stand against a company that we all knew was hurting our business because our managers and attorneys told us it would be a bad idea. Attorneys and managers are your employees. Make sure they know how you feel and that you want them to publicly support the idea that the terms of recording contracts are unfair and cover too long a time period. You also want them to support an organization that will negotiate health and pension benefits for all recording artists. Artists have all the power. They create the music that makes the money that funds the business. No one has ever harnessed that power for artists' collective good. And remember something equally important: Actors had to fight to end the studio system that forced actors to work for one employer and baseball players had to strike to end the reserve clause that tied a player to one team for his entire career. Even though "experts" predicted economic disaster once actors and athletes gained their freedom, both the film business and baseball have enjoyed their greatest financial success once their talent was given its freedom. Join us now in taking a public stand. Your name will help get the ttention that artists rights deserve. If you're willing to speak to the media or testify before Congress, you can help make our goals a reality. Do it for yourself, for your children and do it for the artists who inspired you to make music in the first place. Email us at: Artists@theredceiling.com Or send a fax to 323-934-2265 Give us your stories and your support. Tell us we can add your name to the list of artists who support this organization. And let us know how to contact you directly as we move forward on this project. If you're interested in learning more about my case with Universal, visit my manager's website: You can download a copy of our cross-complaint and press releases that describe the issues we're taking to court. Thanks in advance for your support. Best regards, Courtney Love ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:20:21 -0500 From: "Gretchen Corl" Subject: EC: Your Sort of Human Being Video to Premiere tonight! Hello fellow Headliners...time to start the weekend right...Emm's video for YSOHB will air tonight on WNVT between 7 and 8pm...check www.wnvt.org for the station near you (sorry, only available to residents of VA, MD, WV, and DC).Email or call them to request it in the weeks ahead so we can keep Emm in the top 5 countdown! thanks,gretchen - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:48:06 EST From: BTJones@aol.com Subject: NEC: Chess in DC Gotta love self-promotion... If anyone is in the DC area this weekend and looking for something to do, I'm playing Freddie (the American champion) in the musical "Chess." http://www.sstgonline.org/ Each night before my big power ballad, I've been listening to "Fetching Decay" to get into the "fuck it all, they'll be sorry" mood. Works every time! :-) - ---brian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:00:14 -0800 From: fumbler@juno.com Subject: John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 John Mayer will be making his television debut Friday, November 9th on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". According to www.johnmayer.com, he will be performing "No Such Thing" from his recently released CD "Room for Squares". "Late Night" is on NBC at 12:35am Eastern Time but check your local listings. for photos from John Mayer's shows check out the concert gallery section of Dreams Awake Music @ www.dreamsawake.com dreams awake music www.dreamsawake.com reviews, booking, publicity, management, photography, promotions & net radio Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. -- Henry David Thoreau ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 23:17:40 -0500 From: "Elizabeth Weber" Subject: Re: John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 He's going to be on World Cafe on Monday. worldcafe.org xpn.org I've never heard John Mayer, maybe I'll watch Conan tonight. The name is familiar because I wanted to see Shea Seger (who was opening), but I never got to the show. Tori Amos was on World Cafe earlier today (taped back in October). Very wonderful (of course). She played Purple People, Rattlesnakes, I Don't Like Mondays, and Twinkle. Everything on the Bosendorfer because she didn't have the Rhodes with her in the studio. If you missed it, it will be rebroadcast TONIGHT @ 1am and tomorrow @ noon. :) elizabeth >From: fumbler@juno.com >To: fte@smoe.org, in-the-wings@linus.mitre.org, headline-girl@smoe.org, >navy-soup@smoe.org >Subject: John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 >Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:00:14 -0800 > >John Mayer will be making his television debut Friday, November 9th on >"Late Night with Conan O'Brien". According to www.johnmayer.com, he will >be performing "No Such Thing" from his recently released CD "Room for >Squares". "Late Night" is on NBC at 12:35am Eastern Time but check your >local listings. > >for photos from John Mayer's shows check out the concert gallery >section of Dreams Awake Music @ www.dreamsawake.com > >dreams awake music >www.dreamsawake.com >reviews, booking, publicity, management, photography, promotions & net >radio >Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. -- Henry David Thoreau _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:26:35 EST From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: Re: John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 Elizabeth writes: > I've never heard John Mayer, maybe I'll watch Conan tonight. The name is > familiar because I wanted to see Shea Seger (who was opening), but I never > got to the show. He's really good. The song he'll be playing tonight "No Such Thing" is a favorite of mine. If you like it, you should try to get the first pressing of his album Room For Squares... the re-release is good but I like the original a bit more. If anyone here is in Indianapolis, John is doing an instore at Luna music, one of my favorite indie record stores to hit when I'm visiting, on November 14th! It's a small store so it will be a really intimate show! Wish I could be there. Jess NP: Matthew Good Band - mmmm - hi Kristy :P www.jessicaweiser.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 23:36:32 -0500 From: "Elizabeth Weber" Subject: Re: [matt good band] John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 >NP: Matthew Good Band - mmmm - hi Kristy :P I'm getting the distinct impression that I am the only one on this list who is not particularly fond of the matt good band and especially not fond of matt good. ;) elizabeth _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:01:15 EST From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: Re: [matt good band] John Mayer on Conan O'Brien TONIGHT Friday 11/9/01 Elizabeth writes: > I'm getting the distinct impression that I am the only one on this list who > is not particularly fond of the matt good band and especially not fond of > matt good. Heh. I've heard various accounts of what an ass he is from people who have either worked with or met him... but I happened to download a few songs to check out the new album and I like some of them quite a bit ;) Not an all-time favorite band or anything. . . I was seeking inspiration in the form of new mp3s tonight! I have also read some of his manifestos... good stuff. Although calling them manifestos seems somewhat pretentious, but whatever :D Jess www.jessicaweiser.com ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V4 #262 ***********************************