It’s only taken 8 months but I feel comfortable back in the captain’s chair at my record label after having not done it for the past 5 years. Re-issuing old albums will continue to be my bread and butter but I will always keep supporting and promoting independent music. It’s where I started and will always have a special place in my heart. The spirit of original and new music is what drives creativity forward. Nostalgia is full of sign posts but without new music to build and cultivate new paths the road ends and the sign post will read ‘dead end’.
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JAIMIE VERNON – HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL INDIE ARTIST
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags biography, Bob Segarini, Bullseye Records, Canadian Music, CD Baby, David Komie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, email, entertainment lawyer, Facebook, Haileerosemusic, incorporate, independent music, Instagram, iPhone, iTunes, Jaimie Vernon, Myspace, original music, Pandora, Photos, Pinterest, Presence, Reverbnation, Rock and Roll lawyer, self-promotion, Soundcloud, sounds incorporated, Spotify, success, SXSW, TuneCore, tweet, Twitter, Unsigned Sealed & Delivered, You've Got Mail on May 7, 2016 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – FREE TO BE U2 AND ME
Posted in Opinion with tags 7" singles, Apple, Bait and Switch, Beethoven, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, CD Baby, CD singles, CDs, Classic Rock Magazine, Columbia House, con game, DBAWIS, devalue music, distribution, Don't Believe A Word I Saw, independent artists, iPhone, Jaimie Vernon, Major Labels, Molsons, monetizing music, Mozart, music retail, napster, on-demand, patrons, Prince, Queen Elizabeth, Ray Davies, shell game, The Orchard, The Trews, Thriller, TuneCore, U2, vinyl on September 27, 2014 by segarini
Frank Gutch Jr: I Have Seen a Future and It Is Alcoholic (and Incredibly Positive), A Right Turn For CDBaby, and It’s About Music (the Past and Present)….
Posted in Opinion with tags Alcoholic Faith Mission, CD Baby, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jill Stevenson, Steve Turnidge on May 16, 2012 by segarini
Alcoholic Faith Mission. I put the name first because I want you to remember it, not to be cute with words. They have renewed my faith in music and, by default, the music business. I know. It’s a shade of its former self. I hear it and read it all the time. Statistics here, comments there. It is dying. It is dead. The only thing that matters anymore is format. Kids don’t hear it. Bieber, Perry, Jack White, Richard Waters, Springsteen, Minaj, LMFAO. This is cool, that’s not.
JAIMIE VERNON: Compact DISCovery
Posted in Opinion with tags Barry Allen, CD Baby, CD Reviews, DBAWIS, Desmond Nathan, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Varty Band, Grapes of Wrath, Jaimie Vernon, music, The Orchard, Wes Dakus and the Rebels on May 5, 2012 by segarini
It was about a year ago that some columnist at some hipster rag (Wired? Pitchfork?) predicted or, rather, insisted that CDs would be dead by the end of 2012. And because this Nostradumbass was read by non-hipsters as well, it went viral and became the discussion du jour across the interwebs. A mass
sheeple hysteria ensued that even gave pause to those making the decisions about the future of the format despite the fact that they knew it wasn’t true. Physical product still accounts for the lion’s share of overall international music sales. To eliminate the format would mean flushing half their annual profits down the drain. The labels, currently, have no plan B. They cannot survive on downloading revenues alone and so the compact disc remains.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 