Wednesday, March 14, 2012

A Timeless Gordon Lightfoot Song: "Circle of Steel"

By Carol Lewis


Never, in the history of unsigned bands has a question been a lot more hated and reviled than "Who do you sound like?" When I think back to the superior old days of MySpace, there was a place on the band pages that asked, "Who do you sound like?" The answers given by musicians had been constantly amusing. Commonly, the answer was "We sound like us." Hmmm... you can't argue with that. And numerous times, the answer was "We are an original band, we don't sound like other bands." Nicely, that tends to make sense. A lot of instances the answer would be kind of smarmy: "We sound like your mother!" Okay, additional points for creativity.

I get it. Musicians do not like to be compared to other musicians for the reason that originality is treasured by young musicians, but... you want to know how to market place a band, and if you want to market your band nicely - hell, if you want to have any possible opportunity at the brass ring - you have to know who you sound like. It really is just a plain, tough truth.

You see, the music industry in America is extremely formatted. So, people who like nation music, commonly only listen to new bands that play country music. People today who like jazz ordinarily listen to jazz. Folks want to get music that sounds like the music they already own and like. Right here in America, the radio stations, record shops and on the internet MP3 stores, are broken down into "musical genres" or types of music: classic rock, pop, jazz, etc.

When a pop band lands a record deal, the label's not going to devote a million dollars promoting that pop band to a nation music audience, is it? That would be stupid. The label demands to know what musical genre your band fits in so it knows how to market you. And you will need to know the similar issue, if you happen to be going to marketplace your band.

So, the simplest way to do this is to determine which well-known bands you sound like. If you kinda, sorta sound like Michael Buble, then your music will probably appeal




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