The Most Heard, Least Known Composers In America
This is a prelude to our upcoming book – “A Story Of Six Strings,” which chronicles the history of Stephen Arnold Music through Stephen’s guitars, all of which were photographed on location throughout the western United States. Stephen: ”I had always wanted a Fender Strat but never could afford one. The ‘69 strat was especially [...]
Just read a great post from Wayne Rosso: John Lennon would have been 70 years old this week. It got me thinking about one of his most famous lyrics, a line from “God”: “The dream is over.” Lennon may have been reflecting on the demise of the Beatles, but it seems to also apply to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
“ 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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