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...back. The chairman of Warner Communications' Elektra/Asylum label was moved aside in January, and the subsidiary's headquarters was transferred from Los Angeles to New York City to cut expenses. The CBS/Records Group, which together with Warner commands 45% of the market, closed down a record-and tape-manufacturing plant in Terre Haute, Ind., and has laid off some 1,500 employees. Says Group President Walter Yetnikoff: "It used to be that if any artist said, 'I want a billboard on Sunset Strip,' we'd say, Fine.' But not any more...
...problem still faces the industry: home taping. A report by Warner Communications estimates that a million-selling record will spawn about 450,000 homemade copies. Overall, the industry figures that it loses $1 billion in sales annually to home tapers. A bill in Congress that would put a royalty fee on tape and recorder sales is being held up, pending a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Sony Betamax case on the home videotaping of television programs...
...years of his life "chasing about the globe in the service of causes." He was, as one acquaintance put it, a "one man civil liberties committee." He was in Spain helping the organized opposition to Francisco Franco, he was in Southwest Africa investigating conditions, smuggling out anti-apartheid tape recordings, and gathering evidence of oppression to present to the U.N. he was in Mississippi, long before the civil rights movement became modish, organizing the Freedom Summer and Freedom Vote in 1964 to protest racial discrimination...
...blossoming Beantown bands the seminar offered a chance to meet A & R directors from major labels such as Elektra, MCA, and Epic among others. Some bands, like the Naekidz, sat through the eight hour day, others, the Sex Execs for one, sent their managers to push their tapes and privately pressed records. Advice for beginning bands was abundant, but often contradictory. The major record labels emphasized management. Unmanaged bands rarely get a hearing from the big companies, although Steve Leeds of MCA insisted that every tape that comes in gets listened to by somebody. The independent labels, with...
Alternative discussion centered on paths toward cultivating an audience. Playing in clubs develops a local following, but a tape at a small, receptive radio station insures wider exposure. A privately pressed record promises more airplay, and perhaps a few sales, but a price of $880 for a low budget single, and $9630 for a no budget 10song album is an expensive proposition. Several major label representatives said the sales of an independent release, or a popular local reputation demonstrated by prestigious bookings or significant radio airplay tend to catch their eyes. Several managers at the conference were trying to load...