Wednesday, January 7, 2009

"RETRO FRESH" OUR MEETING WITH RED MUSIC



Had our first major meeting with RED music today met with Alan Becker the VP and Bob Morelli the CEO RED Music. It was a great experience. Phil, Elisa, and myself took that long drive from Vernon NJ into NYC in an ice storm. We were a little nervous about the meeting but that did not last long.
Alan brought us in and he was great, very supportive and gracious. We then were brought into Bob's office, Big corner office 15'th floor, that's the mark of success!! Bob was very gracious as well taking time to ask Elisa about her plans, is she touring, influences etc. all good. Bob wanted to hear music and we just happened to have some tunes straight off the presses. Played three songs and you could immediately see that they were psyched. Alan said the songs have a style that make Elisa and the band very cool. It's a 'retro fresh" sound; meaning we use real rooms with real drums and real Hammond's but record with new equipment and get big modern sounds. I like that analogy it fits. It's the HitPlay LLC sound!
Anyway after the listen Bob wanted team members into the office: promotion people; radio people; Internet and marketing folks 8 all together; and the boss made it known that E-Girl is too be a priority at RED. They even pulled the head radio guy out of a conference with a big name act to meet with us. I cant say the act but he is one of RED's biggest so yes we felt very important and in the music industry at our level that is hard to come by.
Meeting finished with a set of places RED would arrange in the city for E-Girl to perform when she's ready and I was given the go to get RED production team working with us on Internet development. We then spent a few minutes with Alan and talked game plan and made arrangements to come back with finished music and have E-Girl sing live at the RED offices!
For those interested what makes a meeting is having intelligent people represent you, with a plan on what they want out of the meeting, and having the material to blow people away. Alan told us it cant just be good, it has to be great, so when you get your chance make sure the stuff is great and people around you are people others want to do business with.
The days don't get better than this one.


peace Dave

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