♫ Help From A "Not For Hire" Major Label Producer/Artist Developer! ♫

Please do not respond unless you read the following
Carefully and meet all of the criteria.
No out of town calls. This is for New York City.
No second party calls! Artists must call for themselves.

This is serious and is neither spam nor scam!
To date I have heard and passed on the demos of almost 3,000 artists!
No one seems to realize how high the industry standards are for a major label.

Major label producer, artist developer,
manager, A&R consultant, private studio owner,
virtuoso guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter
with over 30 years industry experience and a former Columbia records artist
seeks an artist good enough to spec who is up to major label industry standard.

You must live, eat, breathe and shit music,
Sing, compose and practice hours and hours daily.
Do your work. Arrive early for all business appointments and recording sessions.
Return business calls promptly and on time.
Write current industry standard radio hit songs and be "ready to go" with all that entails.

I am not running a business so please do not call for rates.
I am not for hire, nor is my studio.
I can't work with someone just because they pay!
If you are talented enough, skilled enough,
Work hard enough, have major label skills and I like
you and what you do I will spec you.
If you do not know what "spec" means ask.
You can't apply for something if you don't know what it is.
Absolutely no rap! Absolutely no metal!

Artist samples:
These albums are in progress as such these are only scratch vocals and rough mixes with temporary drum tracks.
Final mixes, final vocals and live drums are done later if a song is worthy of shopping to a label. This saves a lot of time!
I wrote or co-wrote all the songs produced and played all the instruments except for some keyboard parts.
Please listen on good quality headphones or good quality speakers not earbuds!

Sampler one song each artist: http://www.myspace.com/524382188
Full Website: http://www.thirdstoneartists.com/HOME.html

Several of my current artists have major label interest or a deal pending.
Contact information is available on both websites by clicking on the picture of the earth.
Please speak clearly when leaving your message.
No cell calls if possible, most of the cell phone messages are unintelligible.
If you have a myspace page or a website leave the address.

It's o.k. to call if you want artist development/career counseling advice,
I am always glad to help out starting artists.
We all have to start somewhere.

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