Kid Klash

... practice, practice, practice. There are no shortcuts.

Nice playing, wagdog! That's a sweet sounding 74.

This won't help relieve your G.A.S. pains - it'll probably fan the flames...

Here's a photo of my real mid-70's Strat (natural awamp ash / maple neck) with a 70's-vibe partscaster I completed last weekend. I love my swampash Strat, but I've been getting more and more nervous about gigging with it and having it damaged or stolen, so that's why I built the partscaster... I'll gig with the partscaster and leave Blondie at home.

I'm in a similar situation... they took my money, did a REALLY half-assed job getting the CD online (they put up the physical CD for sale on their sight, but only sent it to ONE download service, of which I'd never heard of). Now the download service disappeared and I've written them countless times about and received no response. Then to top it off, they're doing digital downloads of some of my CDs that I don't want them to do digital downloads of, and wrote them about that too, and received no response.

It doesn't bode well for them, or for us...

Sure wish Derek (or at least the system he created for the old CDBABY) was back. Even the new CDBABY logo looks cheezy... like something you'd see on a disposable diaper package.

CDBABY was THE premier independant music distributor up until they were bought out by Discmakers. As a long time CDBABY artist, they were excellent to work with... fast and straight-forward accounting, fast status reports, fast customer service, excellent communication, and rarely if ever a customer complaint.

Now, "the new CDBABY" owned and operated by Discmakers, is a total nightmare. The accounting system is so complex and user unfriendly that it's a joke. Their customer service is non-existant. Requests for support go unanswered.

Am I alone, or are there more fed up CDBABY artists and customers out there? What a MESS! :poke:

As I wrote in the other thread (or maybe it was this thread, but my comment was deleted), it's a scam - don't waste your time or money.

The only somewhat legit service I know of that helps hook up artist/writers with people looking for original music and asks the artist for money (as a "membership" fee) is TAXI.

If the people that contacted you have a link that doesn't work, that should be your first clue.

Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe Click here for the answer.

Thanks for the link.

By the way - your site www.philokeefe.com seems to be suspended... the message says "Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible"...

Hi Phil,

So what's the difference between this forum and the Recording forum?

Like I wrote before - check with ASCAP, or BMI, or any other publishing-oriented organization, or, check with your local attorney that specializes in music law... a "P" with a circle around it stands for "published". You'll see it often on the back of CDs, books, and many other copyrighted and pulished things, as in :

© (p) 2004 Columbian Records - a division of Snort Corp.

Or, if you're still confused about copyright and publishing laws and symbols in Australia, check with :

http://www.apra.com.au

I can't speak for other countries, but in the U.S. of A., a circled C is the symbol for "copyright"; the circled P is the symbol for "published".

Still unsure? Join ASCAP as a composer/publisher and learn more.