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Might be moving to Nashvlle...

Post by MichaelAlan » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:03 am

Seriously...from California. It's expensive here, the people are mean and too beautiful, and I could own 2 houses for the price of mine out there. Plus it's central to touring. Anyway, to get this on topic; anyone live in Nashville or record there or record people from there? What could I expect client-wise? I know it's FLOODED with big time studios, small studios and everything in between, so is it even worth it opening a home based studio? I'm still a 23 year old kid who goes to shows and tours in a band, so maybe I could just gain a client base that way...

It's there or Dallas, but the band's leaning towards Nashville... help me out guys.


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Post by bannerj » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:09 pm

I am interested too. My brother in law lives there and I have thought about heading there to look for a chance to work as an assistant to get my chops up.

Everything I have ever heard about it is bad news--except on friend who was in publishing.

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Post by MichaelAlan » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:28 pm

Well, I can't speak for the music scene much, which is why I need info. But I know that the people and the city in general are pretty cool. I have been there twice and liked it. I hate cities also.
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nashville's really cool

Post by DavidM » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:21 pm

The music scene is really great actually.
There are a lot of great bands that come from there.
And it's cool enough to have a lot of great indie bands come thru.
Check out http://www.nashvillezine.com

Studio competition is fierce.
Everybody's grandmother has a Pro Tools rig,
but once you get working it's really easy to pick up freelance work.

Sometimes I really miss ithat place.
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Post by surf's up » Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:08 pm

I cant speak for Nashville (only been there once), but I am from DFW and its pretty cool. Very diverse in its musical tastes, but be prepared to record appx. 4 metal bands to every 1 non-metal band. I call this the Dimebag Effect Ratio.

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Post by MichaelAlan » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:58 am

drewkon wrote:I cant speak for Nashville (only been there once), but I am from DFW and its pretty cool. Very diverse in its musical tastes, but be prepared to record appx. 4 metal bands to every 1 non-metal band. I call this the Dimebag Effect Ratio.
We played in Midlothian and Rockwall (basically Fort worth and Dallas) and I got the metal-impression. It's ok though, they didn't all suck horribly.
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Post by bannerj » Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:54 am

that is weird about Dallas as filled with metal heads. I go there often to see great shows like Broken Social, Death Cab, Pedro, Vanderslice, Wilco, and on and on. I would figure there would be plenty of non metal indie bands.

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Post by surf's up » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:01 pm

you know, there is a pretty big indie music fanbase here. and consequently there are some bands of that type, but not enough and not many that do it well or to a large audience. i think denton and to some extent dallas is the hub for that stuff, but in any suburb you go to its pretty much just metal and punk.

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Post by MichaelAlan » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:18 pm

There was a cool band called the Feds up there...
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