>>9166794 pb
I don't really want to doxx, but I do websites, and a lot of the teenage bands that I did websites for are pretty big these days, I have a pretty big hit rate with a lot of those bands. Basically, a decent number of mainstream rock radio hitmakers, a decent number of hardcore/metalcore. A lot of those acts are linked together with each other. If you can research, and you could find out what female fronted band has had the most mainstream rock radio hits in the last 30 years, that's one, and there's another band with the same manager as the female fronted mainstream rock band that isn't female fronted, but has more rock radio hits, probably #1 or #2 in the number of mainstream rock radio hits this century. Did the website for the female band for like 4 years or so, did the webpage for a side project of the bigger band's guitarist before he joined that bigger band for a short bit. This webpage doing was a pretty long time ago now, like 15 years ago. I did a local music website, and one of my writers went on to date the guitarist of one of the legendary metalcore bands, who won a grammy as a producer a couple years ago. There's a lot more, there was and is a lot of success with the teenagers and the early 20s folks I was working with like 15-20 years ago. Most of those folks know each other. Played shows together, etc.
Actually quite something. In 2000, I put together a show with Band A, female fronted band mentioned before, female lead singer was 16, and Band B, another female fronted band, they broke up, the drummer played in a lot of local bands, and one got signed maybe 2007 or so, had a minor hit on alternative rock radio, got dropped, broke up, he then got a platinum single maybe 2015 or so, and last year was on 2 different soundtrack albums that made Billboard 200, one got to #2. So that was 2 bands with teenagers, 2000, 20 years later, one has more mainstream rock hits, for a female fronted band in the last 30 years, has overall mainstream rock stats comparable to Heart, Pat Benatar and Joan Jett, and the other has a guy who has a platinum single and 2 Billboard 200 appearances last year. I was doing the websites for both those bands then.
In 2003, I put together 2 shows with the same 4 bands, about a month apart. Band C was a band with the guy who was in Band B, the guy with the Billboard 200 last year. Band D had a guy who was in Band A, the female fronted band. Band E had, over the course of the years, that guy who was in band A and band D, who is now a tech for a national act, and a different guy from band C. who is now a tech for a national act. Band E also had a legendary metalcore drummer, and later, another drummer, prog metal, who has had 6 Billboard 200 albums. One of the guitarists of Band E now, or did, I'm not sure, run the charity for a somewhat huge rock platinum rock band. Another of the guitarists of Band E was in a band - side project - with the bassist of the national act that the guitarist of bands A, D, E was/is teching for. I did that bands website somewhat recently, like 5 years ago or so. That guitarist, the one in the side project, is now a manager, and at least one of his acts has had Billboard 200 albums. A guy from band F is working for his management company. The girl who was a writer for me and dated the metalcore legend (arguably the best metalcore album of all time) was there. So, I'd say that those 2 shows there took in a big core of the general people I know, people I worked with most closely. There were others, but basically those were largely the ones I was pushing forward as teenagers and a lot of success came from there. Definitely random teenagers don't get signed and have success like that. I'm in a different state now, and my resume, at least as I do the math, is better than my current states resume. My state has a few stars that moved away before doing anything, a few good indie acts, and some stars who moved to the state. You'd think that a person, me, with no official power, like a job with a record company, would not have done websites for bands or people in bands with more total success than a state would have. But, at least as I do the math, it's true. Theres a bunch more that I didn't do as much for, didn't know as well, some just hang out with.
I also met a few pretty famous politicians about a decade before I started doing the music thing. Also took a C&E course, run by Jennifer Duffy, one of the instructors was Kellyanne Fitzpatrick. My memory of that is pretty skimpy, but I think that's right.