The “Godfather of Bass Guitar,” Robert Wilson of the legendary Tulsa jazz and funk group the Gap Band, died Sunday in Los Angeles He was 53.
Wilson died from a massive heart attack in his home. His family became concerned about him when they didn’t receive their regular phone calls from him throughout the day. His adult son found Wilson's body on Sunday afternoon in Palmdale, Calif.
His family could not be reached for comment on deadline. Funeral and memorial details will be shared as they become available
Let's all give our newest member Carl Marshall a round of applause for being named Vice President of CDS Records.
CDS Records, a California based Record company, started about 4 or 5 years ago and is now one of the Southern Soul power house companies along with Ecko (Memphis, TN) and Malaco Records (Jackson, MS)
The Muzic Talk Radio station has been accepted and is now listed on the iTunes music player. Click on the screenshot (below) to get a full size view.
As you might already know, the iTunes player (by Apple) is used by several million music lovers all over the world. Muzic Talk Radio is now asking all MT members with a CD(s) to contact BluesMan and request that your music be reviewed for MT Radio airplay. Everyone accepted will also be contacted to record a 15-20 second radio drop.
I am going to second the motion about Kennis Music. The domain kennismusiconline.com is based in Australia by a company named PLANETDOMAIN PTY LTD. I have asked Kennis to stop sending those messages to MT members.
I want to thank Brenda White and Mike (Short Notice) for their assistance in this matter.
BluesMan
Every artist performs for many reasons. One of those reasons is to make a little money. No matter if you are on a major label or no label at all, you can get paid if your music is played on the radio,television orin a movie, etc. As many of you know, there are originations that pay songwriters and copyright holders of songs. They are quite well known:BMI, ASCAP and SEASAC. If you write your own music or know someone who does, you or they, more than likely, belong to one or more of the mentioned originations. First, you or they must sign up and register.
Now, let's say you perform a song but you did not write any of the music or lyrics to that song, are you SOL? (oops sorry, forgot that this is a family site!) The answer to that question is NO! If that is the case, what is an artist to do? There is another origination out there that is JUST for artists who perform on a song that gets played on the radio, television or in a movie, etc. That origination is a non profit origination called "Sound Exchange." I am guessing that you are asking yourself,"who is Sound Exchange and how can they help me GET PAID?"
Just as the songwriters and copyright holders have originations such asBMI, ASCAP, SEASAC, Sound Exchange is for the artists that do the actual performances. Radio stations report to the big three as well as Sound Exchange. That means if your name is John Doe and you sing a song written by John Q. Public (who is registered with BMI) and that song gets ANY kind of airplay, then it is reported to BMI and Sound Exchange.
If you are registered with Sound Exchange then you will get money each time that song plays! There is now well over 7,000 artists signed and unsigned that have some money waiting for them uncollected. All that is required to getthis money is to register! Where is the catch you ask? There is none, because the registration fee is zip, zilch, natta- nothing at all.It istotallyFREE to sign up can collect your money. It's that easy.
