RTP-area local music and culture

["Joel Peck" <joelpeck88 AT hotmail.com>]

superficial listened-to-the-first-30-seconds dickwad

I always wondered what A&R stood for...


> From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
> Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: Motorolla Blog Entry
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:12:05 -0400
>
> That guy's kind of an asshole, ain't he?
>
> I'm not exactly a Total Raleigh Insider, but my recollection is that
> blackgirls was over well before Dish started, and that the so-called
> Raleigh scenesters or whatever loved both Dish & Motocaster. I don't
> recall this supposed "you changed your sound" backlash.
>
> And only a superficial listened-to-the-first-30-seconds A&R dickwad
> would think the Dish stuff just sounded like Tori Amos. The Dish CD is
> probably one of the 20 best releases to come out of NC in the 1990s; I
> don't know if I'd put the Motocaster full-length on that list or not
> (it'd be up in the top-50, at least). It was nice of Interscope to put
> it out, anyway. I guess that was back before NPR had really embraced
> "new music" to the extent that they have nowadays, or else Dish would've
> been huge. I guess they would've had to play Lilith Fair or something.
>
> I still like that Motorolla single, though.
>
> Ross
>
> Glenn Boothe / Local 506 wrote:
> > A friend of mine from NYC (who remembers the bidding war) sent me
> > this:
> >
> > http://www.recklesscountrysoul.com/
> >
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> >
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