Off the Charts: Ruthless Days and Reckless Nights Inside the Music Industry

by Bruce Haring

Book Overview

This explosive expose examines the music industry from 1981 to the present, offering insights into the ways in which, despite the introduction of modern marketing techniques and corporate imaging, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559723165
• ISBN13: 9781559723169
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This book "photographs" only the worst parts of the music industry, detailing the bad guys and forgetting all bout the good parts. The industry is presented for what it is, a pool filled with sharks and other predators that are just waiting for the rookie in the biz to make a mistake. You'll find real stories of people that have survived the sharks, and revealing information about the so-called good guys, that eventually turn out to be rotten and corrupted. If you want to have any chance in this industry then look for this book, it will be an eye opener.

Excellent, invaluable source of hard info on the biz

Haring has brought the music business into a chilling new light with Off The Charts. Even people in the business 10+ years will be astonished at the scams and politics running rampant in the upper echelons of the music industry. Haring details key episodes in the evolution of music as big business, many with retrospective commentary from the big players themselves and from those close to the action. While the book may leave you stunned and disillusioned, it is encumbent on the reader to arm him/herself with this blood and guts reality before planning a strategy to reach the difficult goal of acheiving success in the music business. Great book, especially for independent label owners and independent artists.

Hard-To-Believe Stories of Inside the Music Bix

This book sure makes the record biz look crooked!! Chief culprits appear to be moguls like Charles Koppeman, who inflated the "value" of their companies before selling them at incredible profit and political-animal/corporate types who never gave a hang about the music, but only the bottom line. If all Bruce Haring writes is true, it's one heck of a cesspool filled with sharks - no wonder I don't get anywhere near the royalties to which I'm entitled!! This book chronicles a VERY sick industry! Makes putting out your own CD on your own label seem like the only sensible thing to do, if you don't want to get eaten alive!!