SAM’s Xmas dinner was a great one this year. It always comes with a price, though – in order to be included in this exclusive feast of wine and lobster, you must bring a White Elephant gift. I thought long and hard about what to bring, and frankly it stressed me out a bit. I [...]
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Two years ago this January, I started working at Stephen Arnold Music, and my how that time has flown. I say this in the generic sense, the way one sighs and shakes his heads at the fast changing world, but also with something specific in mind: Exactly three years ago, I was in the middle [...]
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To my surprise last month, Stephen Arnold Music was treated to a half day at the State Fair of Texas. We enjoyed fried food, expensive cheap beer, bumper cars and adrenaline-pumping thrill rides, all of which made for a great team building experience. It was pretty much all of us, from Stephen on down to [...]
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Posted in Stories on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a part of the sales department here at Stephen Arnold Music, I know that the instruments I play are my Toshiba telephone and my mighty Mac PowerBook G4. That’s my daytime life. But when I go home, it is another thing altogether. In my home office (sometimes I refer to it as my stage), [...]
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Posted in Stories on October 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Imagine walking into a Bentley dealership and saying, “Gee, I sure like that $375,000 Azure, but I only have $30,000 to spend. Do you think you could accept that?” This an interesting excerpt from a book by Tom Petty’s publishing manager- Randall Wixen. (The Plain & Simple Guide To Music Publishing.) Wixen hits on how [...]
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Posted in Stories on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to Wired, the Maasai people are taking the first step to copyrighting their tribal tunes and twirls. The World Intellectual Property Organization, or the WIPO, gave the East African tribe a “laptop, camera and digital recorder” worth $11,000, believing the idea to be a “huge potential for communities to record, archive and also draw [...]
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Posted in Stories on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent article for the China Daily newspaper, Quincy Jones claimed he would ride with bravado against the 21st century’s dark knight, a phantom menace called copyright infringement, and rescue his beautiful maiden in distress, the haggard and threadbare music industry. From the article: “We are going to reinvent the record business, in China, [...]
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Posted in Stories on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“ I didn’t realize that Get Smart was a Mel Brooks production… but it’s obvious now,” I heard Clay say as I walked into the Control Room. Clay recently bought the DVDs for his wife, who used to watch the show frequently. As Clay and Paul, our chief engineer, deconstructed some old mixes in the [...]
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Posted in Stories on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“He never sang to the feds, but it turns out Al Capone had a song in his heart. All it took was a stint in Alcatraz to bring it out,” begins the KFWB article on the ruthless crime boss. “The gangster who supposedly orchestrated the 1929 Valentine’s Day Massacre,” composed a love song, “Madonna Mia,” [...]
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Posted in Stories on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Arnold has more stories than a 16-year-old caught out past curfew. He began chasing the music dream along the West Coast in a derelict minivan and eventually found himself hosting penthouse parties for Television personalities in Time Square. Of course, this transformation didn’t happen overnight; his road to success has been a long one, and he learned some important lessons along the way. What will follow are tales from the odyssey of Stephen Arnold Music, both old and new, straight from the horse’s mouth.
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