At 01:21 PM 4/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I can point to certain instances, as I was trying to do before, where I think some artists have stepped over the line of going from reasonable promotion to media whores but I don't know that there necessarily can be any hard and fast rules for saying 'this is good practice' or 'this is bad practice' which applies in all/most instances.
Moby Play. Media whore like none other. Not a single song on that album was spared from being used on a commercial of some sort.
Tis true. He did license every single song on that album out for commercial use. It's a great record and it obviously paid off for him in more than one way. Still, that's a bad precedent for sure. Maybe even a worse one is what I heard about Stevie Winwood in the late 80's. Supposedly he was giving his material to the beer companies he'd do ads for before even his record company would get it...? best, Jason Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine with warped perspectives perfect-sound@furious.com http://www.perfectsoundforever.com