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Originally Posted by rocknation
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Yep! It tends to prove that I'm a better businessman than Jon even though I'm not a millionaire! And I happen to know how record companies work and how execs think because I used to work for major labels in a previous life.
And now, thanks to Jon himself, we know he had a really bad record deal since the label owns his masters and half the publishing rights. That's the basic/standard deal that a new unknown band sign because they have no better choice, they can't afford negociating. But as soon as you make it big, the first thing you (should) do is renegociate the deal and demand to own your masters, I can't believe Jon didn't do it, what was he thinking about?!
Hard cold truth, common sense, crash-course on fundamentals: in record companies, artists are not called "people" but "products" and the goal of a label is to sell a helluva number of copies of said item. Presidents and CEOs are business graduates, not musicians, they learned how to make money from
any product, not to sing and strum along. When the sales figures of your product doesn't meet your expectations and investment, you just discard it. It's not personal, it's strictly business.
I guess now Jon believes it when Richie said, "At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing ."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertai...8d1-1440849736
The Vancouver concert fiasco showed that Jon with another band can't sell out a stadium and Jon as a "solo artist" (i.e. with only 2 or 3 musicians to back him up) would do even worse, and there's no such thing as Jon really solo like Bruce "with only his guitar and his harmonica" as the promoting posters read when he opted for a real acoustic tour.
Let's see what Midas Touch Azoff will come up with to reinvent Bon Jovi as a band in 2016. KTF!
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