Clark Paterson

[Shooter Jennings @shooterjennings]

Dude you are so wrong from so many angles I am astounded. Guess what, I oversee my dad’s publishing, streaming and old label contracts. I see the numbers with a legendary artist (who was totally in the worst of the bad deals you keep preaching about). The amount made from the records pre-streaming was 100x. Now it has dropped to a flatline that maybe increases a little here or there but it’s a major cut out.

I also see the numbers for a mid-low level artist (me) who only has about 300k monthly listeners. I havent made any money from streaming since it started.

I also see the numbers for several artists who are at the starting line.

I also experienced a record deal with an advance pre and post streaming.

Right now the predatory actions are 1000000000x as bad. People will take your publishing, or half of your record to front recording costs. Guess what. It takes 100x longer to recoup.

When I did my universal deal with a boutique label (universal south) I was given a 120k advance and my record with Dave Cobb cost about 30k. I was in the hole for 150k right out of the gate.

Our CD dropped and we sold 50k albums in a few weeks if you need me to do the math for you I can but that’s more than half a million dollars in sales of CDs. I was recouped with a few weeks and making about $1 on each CD I sold. We sold 75k more total in the next year.

The success of the sales of that albums paid for our next two albums and gave me a solid quarterly check that covered my rent at my apartment and my living expenses plus some.

You are conflating the structure of the entire record business with the streaming platform as if one thing is a replacement for the other.

The predatory actions of the music business continue in its original form. They realized that there isn’t any money in music sales now so they all opened publishing companies and they use that to trap artists into advances. Managers also realize this and started publishing companies.

I made 100x the money pre streaming from record sales at least. Maybe 1000x. We were able to fund our tour off the money we made from record sales. The two pieces worked together to elevate the artist.

I value what you are saying but you are just wrong. I don’t see any experiential arguments here. I see you defending a toxic predatory plundering system with numbers that you are gaslighting people into thinking are even in the same universe of what we are talking about.

Waylon made 50x more money before
Shooter made 100x more money before

Hip Hop and Punk Rock made their way by selling CDs and tapes out of a trunk at shows and turned around to make a cd to put out there. A lot of these guys built up money to record by touring first and grabbing peoples attention. That model can work now, but everybody knows you don’t make money on selling music anymore and they’ve accepted that. That’s oppression and that’s removal of rights in my opinion.

The key to freedom is in our hands. A lot of artists are dropping off because they are getting falsely accusers of botting listens (they don’t they’re broke and have a regular job) and there’s no people that can handle these problems for the 100k+ a day being uploaded.

It’s a techno terror organization in my mind (Spotify in particular because you kill Spotify they’ll all follow). They took music and turned it into a worthless commodity.

Only in one generation do all the kids now believe all music is free. How about YouTube? Do you have any idea how many Waylon albums have been uploaded to YouTube that don’t get taken down and don’t generate any income for the estate? Thousands a year maybe more. Especially vinyl rips that don’t get picked up or of b sides etc etc.

The entire ecosystem is broken

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

Tortoise with Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Thunder Road https://t.co/9Kby0VYnrT via @YouTube so awesome. I have this on cd!

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

Card shark here!

[Jon Katz @JonKatz79]

Another near-perfect album that doesnt get enough credit...

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

@DanielMarkham That was my first concert !

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

Salisbury steak is the meal of kings !

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

New Album Reviews https://t.co/HrTEuNEQ09
this is from last year and I didn't even know about till now!

[NashSevereWx @NashSevereWx]

NEW Tornado Warning for far NE Davidson Co. including Old Hickory, Madison. Take shelter now if you are in the warning! https://t.co/Q6eZ5rzphP

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

@DanielMarkham Evan Seinfeld 4life!

[Galleywinter @galleywinter]

Released 40 years ago today, Steve Earle’s Guitar Town arrived like a lightning bolt. It shook up the Nashville establishment, affirmed the Texas songwriter tradition and anchored a career as influential as any.

Turn it up.

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

@DanielMarkham @nineinchnails Saw them in Nashville. Ruled hard

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

She’s learning middle C

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

Great song covered by Slaid cleaves White Rose https://t.co/uett7vK69q via @YouTube

[NashSevereWx @NashSevereWx]

Latest estimates show 29,186 NES customers without power (about 6% of customers) and 3,248 MTEMC customers without power in Williamson Co. (about 3% of customers). These numbers have increased significantly since I woke up an hour or so ago.

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

@DanielMarkham Yes it’s a great dark record!

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

Party time while watching boardwalk empire

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

@WovenHandBand hey guys do you think there will be anymore USA shows besides the one in Montana?

[Clark Paterson @ClarkPaterson]

Hope everyone had a very merry Christmas!!! Georgie sure did !

[The Pogues @poguesofficial]

Full news piece on Sky News this morning on ⁦@ShaneMacGowan⁩ legacy & the Unravelling Shane tour dedicated to him in Co. Tipperary 💚

[Daniel Markham @DanielMarkham]

I keep going back to Monster Magnet.