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" a Letter fr m the Editor • • • updated. However, with the rapidly growing list of artists and limited space in the pUblication (and we can't get the type any smaller!) the listings February, may be limited to only recent and upcoming releases in future issues. And to ensure that you receive your paper in a timely manner, advertising will be Dear friend, to those who can plan ahead and meet ....<llUl<:"., so it will probably play a lesser role in Since our first issue 19 months ago, we have future. EDITORS continually reviewed our direction and restated our appreciate many letters we have TOM D. SlEPHENSON dedication to delight our subscribers. Our First r~ce1'~!I..I~nc:oulra,g1J1Lg We are always open to ANNE SlEPHENSON Anniversary CD was the highlight of 1990, and we would like to address will offer a second compilation cd to accompany our miniatry, please October issue. We expect to feature a greater written article for ASSOCIATE EDITOR variety of alternative artists (numerically, musically you who shared our LIONEL VARGAS and geographically) and we look forward to your extra with renewed SUbscription. this publication will We will devote a greater portion of. each issue we appreciate your CONTRIBUTING EDITORS to artist interviews, articles, and special features CHARLES GAlES like the dance listing in this issue. Our emphasis WIM BOLUYf will continue to be on providing objective and practical information that y~u can immediately use ' CS:~:rvice, FILM ARTS EDITOR as a blueprint for alternative ministries in your area. Our product listings will continue to be Editor - ACM Journal WES MAGRUDER THEATRE ARTS EDITOR PETER SENKBEIL COLUMNIST accepted a position with Frontline DAN KOENIG Music. He is still offering a wide Miscellaneous Notes variety of excellent and obscure product through his mail order CARTOONISTS business. We appreciate the CHRIS TAYLOR We are currently receiving bids subscribers attended the Cornerstone invaluable support he has given to BARON WILEY on our next compilation cd from 70 Festival last summer, and now that this pUblication and wish him the cd manufacturers across the country. Cornerstone has their own grounds best in his new job. If you would like a copy of their and facilities west of Chicago, it will Finally, we would like to SPECIAL THANKS TO addresses, send us a S.A.S.E. We be even more exciting. Trees, a express our appreciation to Kevin JOHN SMEBY have also spoken with many lake, trails, shade! Make it a part Allison of the Pure Rock Report, Dan KEVIN ALLISON independent bands in the U. S. and of your summer vacation. 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From the unfinished "Memoirs of Lord Hemn'haw" I've heard today ••• but hesitation is wise at this time.", or perhaps, "We're definitely going to do One of the most misunderstood huge fortune promoting the sale of the lowest common denominator. This something ••• but why toss the two and maligned positions in the entire music rolls for player pianos. He compelling document is also the sided coin?". music industry would have to be that was shrewd enough even then to see source for his most famous quotes I believe Lord Hemn 'haw would be of the Artist & Repertoire the vast market for music performed which many see as his true legacy to justly proud of his lasting influence representative. Many fledgling without human assistance. To spice the modern music business. You may on the music business. But where artists enVISlon a shadowy figure up sales, he would often assemble rest assured, no A&R office lacks a does this leave us, dear reader? locked in a room full of tapes. That dance troupes to add a visual element copy! Indeed, in a world where 97\ Peddling our own piano rolls, of person does exist, but their title is when the music was premiered at of all records fail, todays A&R course, in hopes of being heard. usually along the lines of A&R different pubs and cabarets. It has person welcomes this constant source Who knows? Some mis guided A&R assistant or secretary. The actual been argued by industry historians of inspiration and guidance. For type might even mistake us for his job of an A&R rep is not only to sign that he single-handedly sewed the there is hope within it's pages as next meal ticket and sign us on the new talent but to see that the record seeds for MTV, Paula Abdul, and well. Yes, the successful stUdent of dotted line. As Lord Hemn'haw once label follows through on its Milli Vanilli. Lord Hemn 'haw soon learns that in said, "An empty stomach speaks to a commitments and that records are Lord Hemn'haw's unfinished doing nothing he'll be correct 97\ of full mind." made and hopefully, sold. The A&R memoirs reveal a man beset with the time. If he is truly on his way rep does spend time listening to terrible procrastination and fear of to greatness, he'll bring in a demos which have usually been failure. His success in the music marketing wizard to fudge the other submitted through "trusted" channels game bore a terrible price. It is three percent! Dan Koenig is an independent artist,' (i.e. lawyers, managers, talent said that a daily reading serves as a Knowing this, we mustn't be producer and engineer. He has agents) or requested by the A&R rep chilling reminder that the record surprised by their strange utterances encountered Lord Hemn'haw's directly. Please note that a very company's future (and the A&R rep's (if we can get them on the phone) influence more times than he cares to small amount of attention is paid to job) turn on the ability to exploit that our music is, "The best thing recall. those tapes screened by the assistant. Some labels won't accept unsolicited tapes at all. The A&R rep also travels to various cities and night clubs to see promising acts. After much negotiation, an In addition, the representative will opportunity with WLBJ (FM 91.5) was stay in contact with a network _of Real Music for a Real World given to RMRW to program the record store employees, radio people, station from 12:30-6:30 a.m. seven reporters, club bookers and so forth days a ·week (much better than a two who give him the latest "buzz" It's funny how the Church or three hour show on weekends!). around town. supports so many missionaries who go They are prepared to face resistance A&R reps also expend a lot of abroad to spread the Gospel, yet from some in the Christian energy seeking the right producer some are starving right outside their community.