Conference mr1pst::music

    
    My band, Mystic Powers, will be recording at Steve Mallet's studio,
    Barking Spider Studios this coming weekend. I'll tell 'em everyone
    from MUSIC sez a big hello.
    
    /prc

    
    Our recording session with Steve Mallett and Ron Bernstein at Barking
    Spider Studios went very very well. I highly reccomend the studio.
    We did 24 tracks on 2 inch tape, then down to DAT for dupe. If your
    going in the studio and want to do 24 track work, call these guys
    first.
    
    BTW, to all the old MUSIC'ers, Steve says a big hello!

    
    	I almost asked you before reading your BTW...if that was the Steve
    	Mallett I used to know.  I somehow missed his leaving.
    
    	- Jim

    
    Yep, that's him.

    RE: .2 (Pete)
    
    Did you ever do the session at Longview?

    
    Nope, way too expensive, although we're thinking of getting another mix
    down from 2" to DAT there.
    
    /prc

	I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this,
but the "Mod" is free to move it where it best belongs...


	Anyway...


	After spending a few frustrating months banging away with a
4-track cassette recorder, I've finally completed an "album" of original
demos. I'd like to hand some cassettes out to my friends, but I'd like
to have a real nice label for it... song titles, "thank you's", even
some nice graphics, maybe...


	If anyone has some programs, postscript files, or any method
or ideas for putting together a nice cassette label, please send
them to me... or post them here (if it's ok with the powers that
be) so others can benefit.

	Also, anyone who knows how to create great looking flyers
and any other promotional stuff, please add that to the list!


	Thanks again!




						Brad Page

    RE .7
    
    Brad,
    
    This is indeed the correct place for your note.
    
    The answer to your question actually depends on what it is you're
    looking for. If you *actually* mean cassette label, as in the sticky
    thing that gets put on the cassette, that can usually be handled by the
    duplication house. I think what you might mean though is the insert
    which goes into the cassette box. In that case, I think you should find
    a friend with a Macintosh and a paint program and go to work. Measure
    the size of the cardboard insert you want and set the "page size" of
    the drawing accordingly. I'd suggest you stick with black and white for
    cost reasons - if you decide on color you'll need a color printer on
    the Mac and you'll also need a color print service. Don't labor under
    the illusion that the packaging makes any difference on a demo.
    
    If you're sending the tape to radio stations, they'll toss the
    packaging anyway. Most stations want 1/2 track R-R tape and if any song
    gets serious airplay, they'll put it on a cart. It's almost certain
    that you won't get anywhere submitting unsolicited tapes to record
    companies, regardless of the packaging quality (or even the music
    quality). If you're sending an "invited" demo to a record company, they
    couldn't care less what you put the tape in. If you hope to sell the
    tape in stores, you face an uphill battle just getting shelf space
    without a major label.
    
    In short, there's no packaging that's appropriate to a cassette demo
    that can't be done on a Mac and taken to a service like PIP for
    printing (usually "Xeroxing") on heavy paper.
    
    Brian

    I have inserts in DECwrite if anyone wants them.... -jn-

    
    	Thanks for your help. I don't have any plans to send this tape to
    radio, record labels or even clubs... nor do I have any illusions that
    they'd actually play the thing! It ws just a labor of love on an old
    four-track... I just want nice copies to give to my friends & family.
    
    	Yes, I am looking for the paper insert for the cassette box, rather
    than the sticky label for the cassette itself.... although if anyone
    knows a way to make those, I'd like to know that, too!
    
    	I don't know anyone with a Mac or any other PC for that matter, 
    so anything I can get on-line here would be the best way for me to go.
    
    
    	Thanks again!
    
    
    
    Brad Page
    
    
    

    Find someone with a workstation, and crank up DECpaint.  IT's not the
    most whizbang program in existence, but it works.  For the typesetting,
    try DECwrite or, if you're a UNIX(R) user, set something for ditroff
    and print it on PostScript.  Do a little cut and paste, and run off
    copies.  The standard size cassette box takes an insert that is the
    following size:
    
    
    |      4 inches      |
    '			 '
    +--------------------+ -------
    |			 |   2/3 inch (room for 3 lines at 6/inch)
    +--------------------+ -------
    |   Title on Spine   |   1/2 inch (room for 2 lines at 6/inch)
    +--------------------+ -------
    |	Song list, etc.	 |
    |			 |   2-1/2 inches (room for 14 lines at 6/inch)
    |			 |
    |			 |
    +--------------------+ -------
    
    If you have more information than fits on the 2-1/2 x 4 side, you can
    add another fold attached to it, and fold that inward.  Make that fold
    only 2-1/3 inches high, so it won't get messed up by being caught in
    the fold at the spine.  (That's room for 13 lines at 6/inch.)
    
    -dick

    Looking for recommendations on a *cheap* 8-track studio in the
    Boston area. My band (a rock/folk trio w/ drum machine) has been
    working on instrumental tracks for about 10 songs. We're going
    straight to stereo (all instruments direct into the board) on a
    Beta hi-fi machine. The tracks sound pretty good to me, and what
    I'd like to do now, is drop the stereo tracks onto 8-track and add
    vocals (and maybe a couple of instrument overdubs). So what we
    need is a reasonably good quality 8-track, nice vocal mike(s) and
    good monitor speakers (preferably a couple of different kinds for
    comparisons). *Don't* need a big studio room, fancy effects, or
    any extra instruments (synths, drums, etc.). Thanks for any ideas.

    Rob

This looked like as good a place as any to post this:

Article 1534 of clari.news.music:
Subject: Virgin Music sold to Thorn EMI for $877 million
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 92 6:40:52 PST

	LONDON (UPI) -- British entertainment group Thorn EMI announced Friday
it has agreed to buy the world's largest privately owned music group,
Virgin Music, for 510 million pounds ($877 million).
	Virgin's chairman, flamboyant entrepreneur Richard Branson, said the
deal would allow him to concentrate on his ``new love,'' his airline,
Virgin Atlantic.
	Branson has built up Virgin Music over the past 20 years into the
sixth-largest recording, music publishing and record label firm in the
world, signing top name recording artists, including the Rolling Stones.
	Branson said the airline, which has been involved in a bitter price-
cutting war on transatlantic fares with other airlines, needed new funds
to help it compete. Virgin recently accused British Airways of trying to
squeeze it out of business with low fares.
	``Obviously it (Virgin Atlantic) does need funds and this is one way
of getting funds into the airline and at the same time without
compromising our record company,'' Branson said.
	Thorn said Virgin Music will maintain its artistic independence under
Thorn EMI and Branson would be appointed president.
	Virgin recently signed a three-album deal with the Rolling Stones and
produces such top-selling artists as Phil Collins, UB-40 and Genesis.
	Branson will continue to control the remaining interests of the
Virgin Group, which include its travel operations, entertainment
software interests and a large retail chain that the company expects to
have a combined turnover of 750 million pounds ($1.3 billion) this year.
	Thorn EMI chairman Colin Southgate said he was ``delighted'' with the
agreement, adding, ``EMI Music and Virgin Music will, together, form a
strong and exciting force in the worldwide music industry.''
	Thorn EMI Friday launched a rights issue asking shareholders for 516
million pounds ($887 million) to fund the Virgin deal, which includes
assuming up to an additional 50 million pounds ($86 million) in debt
once the purchase is completed. News of the proposed acquisition sent
Thorn EMI shares up 25pence to 810pence (43 cents to $13.93) on the
London Stock Exchange by midday.
	In the three years to the end of July last year, sales of the Virgin
Music Group increased by more than 34 per cent, from246 million pounds
($423 million) to 330 million pounds ($567 million).
	In its last financial year to the end of July 1991, Virgin Music made
an operating profit of 21.2 million pounds ($36.5 million).

Can anyone tell me where the Ticketmaster in Northboro is located and what it is
called?  I have a friend interested in Pink Floyd tickets and he wants to know
if they'll give out wrist bands.

Tim

    ..tim..it;s at a place called 'video dimensions' on route 20 on the
    left if you're heading west....past the center of town.........../k

I'm trying to find a rehearsal space in the Boston area.  There
doesn't seem to be an appropriate heading in the yellow pages.

Can anyone tell me the names of some rehearsal space complexes or
any other tips?

-Paul

    Have you looked in the free music papers that are available at music
    stores? You might look there and check with recording studios and music
    stores in the immediate area.