I saw him once when I was, like, 12 - in court, which is actually a pretty gnarly story - but we never ever connected until the past five years. I was fortunate I finally met my dad for the first time when I was about 34 - I grew up knowing who he was, obviously, but I never actually met him until I was mid-30s. And that's when it all started to take flight.
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I got out of that, and I was able to fill that time up with focusing on TV and film. So once my label got to a certain level, and my booking agency did, I did a strategic deal with another agency, so I didn't have to book bands anymore. And that was mainly for two reasons: one, because I wanted to make sure I got to a place I was happy and confident in career-wise in music.Īnd the second thing is, I didn't want to feel like I was ever trying to emulate my dad or kind of exploit my last name or lineage or anything like that. I didn't want to cross over into film until I'd reached a certain level of success in the music business. How did you branch into the film industry from there? But you're really breathing fresh air into this stuff. I'm an 80s child, so anything after like, 91, I think, is brand new.
I'm old enough that I still feel like Godsmack is, like, a new band. It's just becoming hip again, which is really exciting because it's been a long hard road to get here. When I started Sumerian, wasn't cool to wear, like, Nirvana and Guns n' Roses shirts and stuff, and now it's in vogue again. Right? Now, for the first time in a very long time, it's actually become cool again. Good, someone's got to carry the torch, man. I am just continuing to grow, man, trying to fight for things rock, you know? So I just kept building and building it, and now - finding Smashing Pumpkins was a really big moment for us. But that was pretty good on a first album back then, but basically, I started the label and then just started building it, and as it got more established, we could find bands for multiple album deals.Īnd a lot of early bands that did a one-album deal came back and re-signed based on how good relationships had been going. My band wasn't that big, and we peaked out about doing, like, between 300 and 500 tickets as a headliner. Some of them were even opening acts for my band. So I would just do these like 50/50 one-off deals with artists based on me being their agent and them trusting me. And I would go to the established labels in the scene, and they would either offer them a Draconian deal, or they didn't understand this kind of new wave of heavy music. And, yeah, as, like, a guy in a band and everything I'd done in the business, made it realistic for me to start a record label.īecause I was booking a lot of these bands that were worth tickets, and they didn't have deals. They would draw hundreds of people in all these different cities when they had never been there, didn't have a record out or anything, so that was a really exciting time. There was a band called Suicide Silence that I was working with. So MySpace played a big part in breaking artists - a lot of like underground metal bands and stuff you could get big on there. Yeah, that was a huge part of it, and then it was in the era of MySpace. Is that how you kind of made your connections and bands for your label? The first release was, like, late 2006, and then, yeah, been building it ever since. Take away what little wit and actual funny moments that were in Sex and the City, and you have Girls.We never made the second record I just went full-on, on the industry side. Every episode is the characters trying to navigate through being single, or something. I'm all for empowering women, but even I have my limits. What's the point?įrom what I can gather, it's an excuse for creator/actress Lena Dunham to get naked. What I absolutely don't like is when a show tries to beat into your brain that whatever given group of people are quite sexually active. All I remember is an opening credit, and the next thing I knew I saw a couple going at it like monkeys.
Not one to miss a potential new favorite, I gave it a shot. I remember coming across this on On Demand one day. We're going to look at the top offenders, starting with: 4. Or everything is so suggestive that you feel like you should bathe in holy water just to feel semi clean again. However, there are some cases when you might watch a show just for the story, and then there's a penis that seems to come out of nowhere. Entertainment today is aimed directly at our naughty bits, and we wouldn't have it another way. There seems to be a reoccurring trend in most TV shows today: Turn your audience on as much as possible so they come back for more.
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