Obviously I didn’t expect Donald Trump to completely lose his mind and start attacking my homeland Canada publically when I was originally making my plans to visit Seattle, although at this point I can’t say it caught me in any way by surprise either. In all honesty I don’t take much of what he says seriously anymore – I know I should, but he’s clearly … Continue reading CF Goes to Seattle (Part 3: Plans)
And we’re back with another sudden addition to our Am I Being Scammed series. This time, we take a look at a recent interaction with a Toronto-based music promoter and invite you to follow along as we spot the red flags. Now, there isn’t much to share here by ways of screenshots or visual evidence since the most damning part of the interaction took place … Continue reading Am I Being Scammed By… A Live Music Promoter?
This blog is the final in this series. If you missed part 12, jump back here, or head back to part 1 to start from the beginning. Yesterday as I finished up the part 12 blog, I sent a final e-mail to the producer. In their previous e-mail to me, they stated they were going to copy my agency on their e-mail as well as … Continue reading Series: Am I Being Scammed By… My Music Producer? Part 13 – Aftermath & Takeaways
This blog is part 12 in an ongoing series. If you missed it, jump back to part 11. The next day passed without anything arriving to my inbox. On Sunday morning, October 26th, I was working away at my computer when it came through. It was labeled incorrectly. It was also labeled as a master. I found this odd also. For starters I know I … Continue reading Series: Am I Being Scammed By… My Music Producer? Part 12 – The Mix
This blog is part 11 in an ongoing series. If you missed it, jump back to part 10. It was a little while again before I heard back from the producer about scheduling the vocal workshop. I reached out a couple times and then finally he responded and had changed his tune about it again. We were no longer going to do the vocal workshop … Continue reading Series: Am I Being Scammed By… My Music Producer? Part 11 – The Fifth Session
This blog is part of an ongoing series. If you missed it, jump back to part 9. With my Gibson, Marshall Amp and Bass in tow, the next day I made my way to the session. My understanding leading into this session was that this artist had a song in the works with the producer which I was sent a file of. They needed to … Continue reading Series: Am I Being Scammed By… My Music Producer? Part 10 – The Workshop
This blog is part 9 in an ongoing series. If you missed it, jump back to part 8 now. My next session was scheduled for September 11th which was good because I had a bit of homework. I ran through my song on bass and came up with parts based on what we’d done to that point. Again, a pretty simple song, so a pretty … Continue reading Series: Am I Being Scammed By… My Music Producer? Part 9 – The Fourth Session
This blog is part 8 in an ongoing series. If you missed it, jump back to Part 7 now. The next day I was invited out to the studio to hop on another session. The producer needed a guitar player and wanted me to come out for it. I was dealing with a lot that week in particular and was currently wearing a heart rate … Continue reading Series: Am I Being Scammed By… My Music Producer? Part 8 – A Brief Intermission
This blog is part 7 in an ongoing series. If you missed it, jump back to part 6. The following week I re-recorded my acoustic guitar rhythm track and we’d spoken in person about booking the Thursday to meet up again and go over everything and continue the project so I was anticipating that. I also very quickly re-recorded a new scratch vocal track just … Continue reading Series: Am I Being Scammed By… My Music Producer? Part 7 – The Third Session
This blog is part 6 in an ongoing series. If you missed it, jump back to part 5. The next session date was originally scheduled for July 20th, but as the day approached it had to be moved. The engineer wanted to go out of town, so we moved our session to the 25th instead. In our e-mail back and fourth trying to re-schedule, I … Continue reading Series: Am I Being Scammed By… My Music Producer? Part 6 – The Second Session
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