Shirley Posted the following rant on his website last week:
"I'm definitely commiting professional
suicide on a huge scale these days. I just get so pissed at these record
companies and band managers that treat us engineers and producers like
s***, and we are supposed to take it, because there is apparently a dearth
of work out there and we should be scraping and groveling. Because the
labels spend so much on A&R 'expense' accounts, and b***** so publicly
about downloading, budgets are cut so much that the quality of product
up for offer is often short of nothing but peurile. The music is not the
problem, so why spend less on the music than they did thirty years ago.
I was listening to old SABBATH the other day, and the care that has been
taken to make a quality record then, far exceeds what we have now, by and
large! Obviously I'm not stupid enough to name these people (well I am,
actually), but certainly by my work schedule, it's not hard to guess who
I'm talking about. Everything needs to be done for near-free now, and then
it takes forever to get paid! Put it this way, since I got back from London
in early June, I've not seen a penny, but plenty of f***ing attitude from
CEO's, A&R people and managers who have very tight deadlines and want
us to fix these cheaply and badly recorded records. One label asked me
to mix an entire album for $5k � studio, me, materials included. At best,
it could take a week, and studio rates are $2k/day � not to mention all
the equipment I own and have loans on! What do they expect me to tell the
phone/mortgage/etc companies? 'Sorry, surround sound doesn't pay thirty
days'?"
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