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Talking the Music Industry with Q Prime's Founding Partners of 32 Years
- 6stringmerc 11y agoFor anyone interested in 'behind the scenes' information regarding the structure of the music business, this article is a must read! Very pragmatic. Quite a bit more details regarding how things are structured than most topical articles. Part 1 of 2. Teaser quote: >...but that's not the reason I left Mercury. I left because something of Peter alluded to earlier, which is you want to be on the side of the angels. And when you're at a label, back then and I think now, you’re torn. You go out and sign a band and you think they are the greatest and you work with them and find them a producer and choose the songs and do the sequencing and get the artwork and all that done. And then the head of marketing says, “We don't have room to promote that this year.”