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>In my way of thinking, there is no way a musical artist (or any other performer) can reach the peak of stardom without being comped!
It's pretty much true. I have musician friends that have opened for bands like Pantera, Slayer, Ozzy…but they don't get much of anywhere. One that talks about it said they make their bread and butter from the merch, everything else is record company.
So he's on his friend's own record company…Housecore (totally NOT comped!) PanterA got humongous, for some reason I think they broke outta comp'd when they were kinda a girly metal looking band. Phil's bitched a bunch about the record companies and their execs. I hope he's an Anon with us…might be.