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Motorolla

Motorolla

“Congratulations”/”Broken Eyes” 45

(North Carolina 1992)

By 1993, there were at least 45 self-contained record companies that bigasoft ipad video converter review could offer full major-label funding and distribution to a new artist.* Hundreds of A&R reps were scouring the bigasoft ipad video converter review country to turn up bands that could make the next 5-million-selling alternative smash.

Things got a little crazy.

Motorolla were sold off in one of the bigasoft ipad video converter review weirdest auctions in music business history. Record companies decided that the bigasoft ipad video converter review Raleigh/Chapel Hill scene was a bigasoft ipad video converter review combination of Athens and Seattle and home of the next big thing.

Bo Taylor, formerly of Eight or bigasoft ipad video converter review Nine Feet, fronted Motorolla and also played guitar in Dish, a bigasoft ipad video converter review new band fronted by Dana Kletter of Blackgirls. Motorolla & Dish shared a bigasoft ipad video converter review manager and they all came up with a scheme where any label who bigasoft ipad video converter review wanted one band had to take the other.

The whole scenario was a bigasoft ipad video converter review extremely weird. Eight or Nine Feet were one of the bigasoft ipad video converter review thousands of Southern bands that bore a more than passing resemblance to bigasoft ipad video converter review R.E.M. They never got a record deal.

Bo tried again with Motorolla, a band who “played in the current style” that came into fashion in late 1991.

Dana quit blackgirls to bigasoft ipad video converter review form her own band. Quite a few folks thought the bigasoft ipad video converter review Dish sound bore a strong resemblance to the popular Little Earthquakes album.

The fact that these two bands had adopted new musical styles didn’t sit well with many on the bigasoft ipad video converter review local scene, but the record company A&Rs had bigasoft ipad video converter review seizures after they decided that either or both bands had bigasoft ipad video converter review that infinite alt-rock commercial potential.

I looked at it bigasoft ipad video converter review this way: in 1966, almost every band in America wanted to bigasoft ipad video converter review sound like the Rolling Stones. That turned out really well for bigasoft ipad video converter review everyone. When Bo decided to copy Seattle instead of Athens, he relaxed and bigasoft ipad video converter review found a style that gave some kick to his melodies. I liked Motorolla much more than bigasoft ipad video converter review Eight or Nine Feet and would have loved to sign the bigasoft ipad video converter review band. Unfortunately, I didn’t go for Dish and wouldn’t sign one band to get the other.

Interscope had no such hesitation. Interestingly, they wanted Dish and (unlike almost every other label) acted like Motorolla was just a throw-in to seal the deal.

Once the bigasoft ipad video converter review extremely large contract was signed, Motorolla had to change its name to bigasoft ipad video converter review Motocaster to satisfy the demands of corporate America.

Neither band had bigasoft ipad video converter review a real touring base before they made very expensive records. Interscope didn’t hear a bigasoft ipad video converter review hit on either album and both bands quickly became corporate writeoffs.

I really liked this bigasoft ipad video converter review single before the signing circus started and still like it more than bigasoft ipad video converter review ten years after Motorolla was erased from the corporate memory banks. I also like that bigasoft ipad video converter review the band did us the courtesy of releasing a 45; by the bigasoft ipad video converter review time the 90s rolled around, labels were scouring the country and bigasoft ipad video converter review lots of worthy bands skipped the vinyl stage in hopes they’d win the demo tape lottery.

*Compare that bigasoft ipad video converter review with 11 labels offering major-label deals today. All counts are mine, so there’s room for error.

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