The what's going on in Thrash thread

[redfly]

We need more brutal!

Man, we do! I hope Testament brings it back for the next one. I feel like they've been deep in a more melodic territory for quite a while now. With brutality peppered in.

 

[redfly]

We really need a reality show to document Corpsegrinder's life. Brutal as fuck on stage but seems like a normal great guy and family man off the stage. I would watch it.

Yeah, I'd watch that! They've got a crazy sticker and pin if you order the cassette called Respect The Neck. Pretty funny. He's gotta be cool to have such a sense of humor about it.

 

[redfly]

Hmm I'm sure that's what I typed, are you sure you didn't edit my post while I wasn't looking?

. Who would ever do such a thing?!

 

[redfly]

They should make a Corpsegrinder Teddy bear

I bet that would sell like hotcakes!

 

[redfly]

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/t...record-companies-are-criminals-everyone-lies/

I hate Jay Jay, he's a dickhead, but the guy is not wrong here. The break down of album sales is fucking terrible, it's made even worse in some cases these days where bands are given an advance to make the album because that loan must be paid back before any other money is divided.

Where I do disagree with Jay Jay is that he's spent the last few years trying to be a business man in the music industry, he's tried to convince people he understands everything and that's why he leads the legal fights for Twisted Sister copyright issues etc, but he doesn't ever admit that his role these days is as criminal as the record company execs he throws hate upon. He's been managing bands for a while now, which means by his own admission he's taking 15% of something he's done almost nothing to create. He's been a promoting, again taking a cut of profits from bands. But he's happy to point out that others are screwing bands.

Jay Jay should stick to story telling like that story he created recently about Harley Davidson wanting to name a tyre Twisted Sister and how he strong handed them into backing down. That was one of his best fairy tales.

Yeah I really don't know how much of what he says I believe. In general he talks too much.

 

[redfly]

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/e...ucid-drops-music-video-for-deaths-of-despair/

Here you go redfly, get into some new music and start rocking. This music comes to you complete with an A league rating from Dave Wright!!

It's got me stuffed why they keep using that fisheye lens face of the guy in the hoodie as their promo. It's fucking terrible. I don't think I've seen one good promo picture of the band, they all look like bored daddy's who escaped their well maintained music room. They aren't even a garage band! I'm starting to think The Flaccid would have been a better name.

Thanks but no thanks? . Lol. The Flaccid is a way more appropriate name!

 

[Slammed]

Man, we do! I hope Testament brings it back for the next one. I feel like they've been deep in a more melodic territory for quite a while now. With brutality peppered in.

No Alex Jazz Hands?

 

[Slammed]

Yeah, I'd watch that! They've got a crazy sticker and pin if you order the cassette called Respect The Neck. Pretty funny. He's gotta be cool to have such a sense of humor about it.

Imagine doing a Homer strangle on that neck, you'd need four hands!

 

[Slammed]

. Who would ever do such a thing?!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I don't know!

 

[Slammed]

I bet that would sell like hotcakes!

Having delivered the damn things for too many years I can tell you about the only thing in this country that sells like hot cakes is Unicorn testicles!

 

[zerostatic]

Yeah, I'd watch that! They've got a crazy sticker and pin if you order the cassette called Respect The Neck. Pretty funny. He's gotta be cool to have such a sense of humor about it.

I have seen the Youtube videos or was it Instagram of him shopping at Target. The guy is pushing around a shopping cart and drinking a Starbys Frappucino while looking for discount toys.

 

[redfly]

No Alex Jazz Hands?

Hehehe. No!

 

[redfly]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I don't know!

 

[redfly]

Having delivered the damn things for too many years I can tell you about the only thing in this country that sells like hot cakes is Unicorn testicles!

I'm not wading into that one!

 

[redfly]

I have seen the Youtube videos or was it Instagram of him shopping at Target. The guy is pushing around a shopping cart and drinking a Starbys Frappucino while looking for discount toys.

Lol. Too funny! I'm gonna look that up.

 

[Slammed]

Yeah I really don't know how much of what he says I believe. In general he talks too much.

He does talk too much and he spends a lot of time trying to justify his words to add validity to them, but what he's saying is fairly well documented and similar thoughts and stories can be found in just about every conversation about labels. Different bands, different labels different percentages but 15% seems like a magical average figure in the industry. It's about the same for managers of authors too.

The problem with the industry is that there is always a line of people wanting their 15% before the band get theirs and no 15% is the same because it's always worked out on the new total not the gross total. The other big problem is how many people work for the person/group at the top taking the initial 15%. When a label takes their 15%, after costs, it doesn't stop there, because PR takes 15% but they are usually label owned, so essentially the label is getting that money too. Distribution is label run, legal is label run, so the label itself is not making 15% they are making a shitload more and the band gets left with the crumbs at the bottom. It's part of the reason big bands start their own labels, but that in itself doesn't remove all the hands in the pot because the labels are mostly created to keep their IP, they palm off most things like distribution and PR to the official label they sell the album too. It's like a pyramid selling scheme, and if Jay Jay is a managing or producing he is doing the same thing to other bands because it's the way the system works.

 

[Slammed]

I'm not wading into that one!

We used to deliver fresh hotcakes and piklets (small hotcakes) 3 days a week to supermarkets. I used to pinch a packet of 6 hotcakes to eat in the truck, no store every missed them and even when they were on half price specials we'd be lucky to get rid of 20 packets a day. There was nothing wrong with them but in this country they just don't sell, people prefer to make their own. Even Maccas doesn't sell heaps of them. It's the reason I do laugh when I hear the common phrase that something is selling like hot cakes, because in this country they just don't sell.

 

[Slammed]

Lol. Too funny! I'm gonna look that up.

Yeah it's still there somewhere. I remember seeing it too.

 

[Slammed]

Thanks but no thanks? . Lol. The Flaccid is a way more appropriate name!

Well someone other than Dave Wright has to like them

 

[Slammed]

I have seen the Youtube videos or was it Instagram of him shopping at Target. The guy is pushing around a shopping cart and drinking a Starbys Frappucino while looking for discount toys.