again you start off reasonable and then go all kooky... your last sentence here seems to be an effort by you, for unknown reasons, to draw a link between the perceived failings of the producer to follow through on his business correspondence, and some sort of mal-intent you've somehow dreamt up on the producer's part to deceive the band into working with him.
no, i simply find a band's "myspace friend count" beyond the realms of
relevance. most of my unsigned clients have very few myspace friends... but one or more of the members have good day jobs, and honestly i get my full rate far more often from unsigned, no-name bands that have no labels and few "myspace friends" than i do from signed artists or their labels.
it's truly odd that you think this issue of myspace friends has any bearing on the matter whatsoever.... or perhaps it's just naive.
the only research a producer should be doing is in regard to whether or not he likes the band in question, and thinks their songs and talents will be a good match for his own, thus making the joint effort worthwhile as something beyond a simple work-for-pay transaction. IOW, an artistic endeavor.
but at the root is still a business transaction and once i'm given work files and the go-ahead to do a project, i feel that this is implicit of artist's knowledge of my rates.
i'll agree that the producer in this case should have answered his email, but he does post his rates online, and the artist should have checked the site out thoroughly, or simply waited for, or insisted on, a reply before authorizing work to begin and providing the files.
yep, that's def your opinion and you've made it clear. and you have every right to it, and i would never challenge your right to it. it's wrong, but your right to your own opinion extends to wrong opinions as well... so you're covered,
and there's that nasty leap of logic again... despite the fact that he's already stated that he missed that email... you'll just go ahead and characterize it as a malicious attempt to ensnare. rock on.
9 minute song that he didn't track. i'd likely spend more than 2 days.
but hey, that's why i work for pre-arranged, per project or per song fees.... but this guy doesn't, and the band certainly had access to that info.
hey, in the end both parties dropped the ball here a bit, to varying degrees.. but if the band like the mix, they'll pay him for it. all that seems to me to need working out at this point is whether they like it enough to pay the full rate, or if Tore is amenable to a reduced rate as acknowledgment of his part in the misunderstanding.
