"Song for New Orleans" (Adam Pascal) OH, EW. He couldn't give a song with that title to someone I take a little more seriously? Should have switched his and Luther Creek's tracks, Luther Creek is a man with a little gravitas.
Speaking of the upcoming (shelved, lol) album? This irritated me:
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Pascal's first two albums, Model Prisoner and Civilian, were on small independent labels and sold about 15,000 and 25,000 copies, respectively, he said. He is releasing Blinding Light on his own label.
"I have the means to do it myself, and it didn't make sense for me to continue to make records and just give somebody else all the money,' he said. "If I sold 100,000 records, which is not a completely outrageous number, I would make more money than if I sold 5-million records for a commercial label.'"
First off, something about his attitude seems ungrateful to Sh-K-Boom. Who charity signed him, just like half their recordings are charity for the good of the Broadway community. Second, I think he's including illegal downloads from broadway sharing communities in his estimates for what Model Prisoner and Civilian sold. Third, considering his history in the business and his complete lack of business savvy and the lackluster material he's been playing publicly for years now, I kind of doubt that
Blinding Light is going to singlehandedly sell more than twice what his previous two (undoubtedly superior) efforts sold. Fourth, since Larry wrote 75% of it, who wants to bet most of the proceeds go towards filling up Larry's SUV with gasoline for the next
year two months after its release?
Clay Aiken
