From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V3 #16 Reply-To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * mad-mission-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Patty's tour dates, go to: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup/pattyg/patttyg.htm * OR * go to http://www.amrecords.com * then click "tour" and fill in the blanks :) * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: mad-mission-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Friday, January 22 1999 Volume 03 : Number 016 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Patty In LA!! [mike smith ] MM: chicago or madison [Judy Lev ] MM: Patty in MA ["Gould, Rachel L." ] MM: Patty in LA [Dome93@aol.com] RE: MM: Patty in MA ["Gould, Rachel L." ] MM: A&M/Interscope/Motown etc ax begins to fall........ [Mike Connell Subject: MM: Patty In LA!! So far, according to Troy's hairstylist, Patty is only doing the 21st at the House of Blues. They were scheduled to play on the 23rd but Patty's bass player has to be back in San Fransico for an operation on his appendix so they can only do the one show. Mike _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:23:38 -0600 From: Judy Lev Subject: MM: chicago or madison does anyone know if patty will be making her way over to madison or chicago? i've seen her twice, but i'm dying to see her again...she's quite addicting. if anyone knows, could you let me know? thanx, judy "For every challenge could have paradise behind it." -John Popper ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:30:00 -0500 From: "Gould, Rachel L." Subject: MM: Patty in MA Hey there! Can anyone tell me what time the show starts on Sunday at the Backstage? And is anyone else from the list going? Sorry to e-mail everyone about this seeing as there is only a handful of us Boston folk... Thanks. ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are subject to attorney-client privilege and contains confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original message without making a copy. Thank you. Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP tel:617-248-7000 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:53:15 EST From: Dome93@aol.com Subject: MM: Patty in LA Greetings to all MM's- No confirmation about Patty at HOB yet. The question is, how long does it take to confirm it and get it on their docket? Can't wait! milo ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:33:00 -0500 From: "Gould, Rachel L." Subject: RE: MM: Patty in MA i found out the doors open at 7pm and i think that tickets are $12.00 (but i could be wrong about the price). ---------- From: Gould, Rachel L. To: mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: MM: Patty in MA Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 12:30PM Hey there! Can anyone tell me what time the show starts on Sunday at the Backstage? And is anyone else from the list going? Sorry to e-mail everyone about this seeing as there is only a handful of us Boston folk... Thanks. ********************************************************************** This email message and any files transmitted with it are subject to attorney-client privilege and contains confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original message without making a copy. Thank you. Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP tel:617-248-7000 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:49:17 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: MM: A&M/Interscope/Motown etc ax begins to fall........ On the Sonicnet web site today............ Mike :-) http://www.addict.com/MNOTW/lofi Axe Falls Early At Universal/Polygram Labels Artist rosters and label staffing to be decimated at such labels as Geffen and Mercury. Staff Writer Chris Nelson reports: Universal Music Group, the largest of the world's five major music corporations, plans to lay off 500 staffers Thursday (Jan. 21), launching a significant reshuffling that will leave another 2,500 without jobs and hundreds of bands without record deals by the end of summer. While the bulk of pink slips are expected to be issued Thursday morning, a high-level source at one affected label said cutbacks already had begun Wednesday (Jan. 20). "Staffing issues are happening as we speak," the source, who preferrred anyonymity, said Wednesday afternoon. The layoffs are one of the first steps to integrate PolyGram and Universal, following the $10.4 billion acquisition of PolyGram by Universal's parent company, Seagram, in December. Under a massive restructuring plan, such well-known labels as Interscope, Geffen, Def Jam, Motown and Island will be fused into four new labels. Amid the reshuffling, some of the world's most famous bands may wind up on new labels. U2, for instance, are said to be leaving Island Records, their longtime home, to sign on with another Universal Music Group division, the new Interscope-Geffen-A&M, or IGA, group. U2 manager Paul McGuinness would not explicitly confirm that the Irish band, whose recent hits have included "Discotheque" (RealAudio excerpt), are jumping to Interscope. But asked if the band anticipated having to adjust to working with new label staff, McGuinness said, "Not really. Interscope is being headed by Jimmy Iovine, who is a very old and good friend of ours." (Iovine produced several U2 albums.) The biggest acts at the combined labels, such as rockers Hole and Marilyn Manson and country superstar Shania Twain, aren't likely to be significantly affected, but the future of some lesser-known bands is unknown. Folk-rocker Robbie Fulks, who is signed to Geffen, said Tuesday he is already making alternate plans, although he doesn't expect Geffen executives to decide his fate for three weeks, after label representatives have had a chance to see him perform near his home in Chicago. "I'm doing a combination of things to make money," said Fulks, whose Geffen debut, Let's Kill Saturday Night (RealAudio excerpt of title track), was released in September. "I'm going to go back into a [song]writer deal in Nashville, and do a little bit of roadwork when I can afford to. Maybe do some ad work and stuff like that, a combination of things." Universal chief executive officer Doug Morris and chief operating officer Zach Horowitz convened label heads in Los Angeles last week to discuss cuts in artist rosters and staff, according to an anonymous source close to the reorganization. UMG spokesman Bob Bernstein had no comment on the impending layoffs. The corporation apparently has said little about the reorganization even to its own staffers. Employees of PolyGram, Island and Def Jam claimed privately Tuesday that they had been given next to no information about the restructuring. A Geffen Records staffer who did not want to be named, said the general understanding at that label is that employees will be addressed individually Thursday about severance packages. "By 5 p.m. we have to be out of the office, and the new company will start Friday," he said. Top officials have fled Universal's labels in recent weeks. Onetime Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg, who two weeks ago quit the top job at Mercury Records -- which will become part of the new Island/Mercury label -- said last week he was not sure where he would land. "I'll be in New York, I'll be in the music business, but that's all I know right now," Goldberg said. The Los Angeles Times offered a glimpse Tuesday at cuts designed to save UMG $300 million yearly: Forty-five of 70 bands currently signed to Geffen will be dropped, and 115 of Geffen's 145 employees will lose their jobs, according to the paper, which quoted anonymous sources. At Mercury, 110 of 140 bands are said to be on the chopping block. At MCA, on the other hand, both the artist roster and staff are expected to remain largely intact. Sources told SonicNet Music News Wednesday that those numbers are largely accurate. One source familiar with the restructing plan said the artist cuts will unfold over several months. An unnamed staffer at Geffen said while there is no list of "cuts" and "keeps" at that label, popular groups such as Hole, industrial rocker Rob Zombie and Beck are guaranteed a home at Geffen, as are influential rockers Sonic Youth. Modern-rock bands Garrison Star and Remy Zero are also said to be on the Geffen short list. Staffers at the smallest labels in the UMG umbrella appear to be the least fazed by the restructing -- despite the fact that the Mercury-affiliated spoken-word label Mouth Almighty was told last month it will be cut loose. Ken Friedman, Director of Artists and Repertoire for Interscope subsidiary Nothing Records, said he doubts his label -- owned by Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor and home to Marilyn Manson -- will suffer extensive damage. "I could be totally wrong," Friedman said. "But I don't think so." The biggest changes ahead for Tom Rothrock, who owns Bong Load Records with fellow producer Rob Schnapf, are likely to be whom he'll deal with at his sister labels. "The next release, from a logistics standpoint, will be going through a very different group of people," said Rothrock, whose label has released vinyl versions of albums by Geffen artist Beck. "But … the new people involved in the merger have a history of success." Philip Walden, executive vice president of Mercury-affiliated Capricorn (Cake, 311), said, "We're not going to be affected … The only surprise might be who we'll be working with." Industry veterans Goldberg and McGuinness said an unintended result of the restructuring may be a renaissance for independent labels, who can pick up artists left out in the cold. They said indie labels also will be able to take advantage of the UMG labels' expected reductions in new signings. "People often talk about bands being under the radar," Rothrock said. "The threshold of the radar is being raised as the corporations tighten up. Their radar is not going to go as low as it even does now." Rapper Chuck D (born Carlton Ridenhour), whose band Public Enemy has split from Def Jam, said he knows several bands that won't have a contract when the restructuring is complete. But he said, "I don't think it's bad for artists." Chuck D said he anticipates that some of those groups will take their wares to the Internet for direct distribution to consumers, an area of the business that he said the traditional industry has yet to conquer. (Contributing Editor Chris O'Connor contributed to this report.) 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Since I'm a fan of both (although by far a greater fan of Patty) I'm pretty darn excited! West Coasters - check your venue listings. LeeAnne ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V3 #16 ********************************