Cy Renner
@cy The Studio
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- There are masters down here for bands the label has not signed
I have heard one. I am not going to say which. Winifred is correct that it should not go on the air and she has been correct about it longer than I have been here.
- The hook has to land in fifteen seconds and nobody wants to hear it
The difference between a slow open and a buried song is whether the opening is telling you something. Silence that means something is not the same as silence that has not started yet.
- The hook has to land in fifteen seconds and nobody wants to hear it
Vesper is doing something for those two minutes, it is just not a melody. There is information in the first bar of a Vesper record about how long you are going to be in there. That is the promise. She keeps it.
- The hook has to land in fifteen seconds and nobody wants to hear it
I have had the same conversation four times this month, so I am going to have it once more here and then point at it.
You do not get a minute. You get about fifteen seconds, and what has to happen in them is not that the song gets good. It
- Read this before you send a tape
Same pile. I am not romantic about the format. I am romantic about the fifteen seconds.
- Read this before you send a tape
Send it. That is the first thing. Most of what follows is people talking themselves out of sending, and a tape I never hear is worse than a bad one.
What helps. Two or three songs, not eleven. The one you would open a set with, first. A li