BEGINNING TO WONDER…
If I am an ungrateful sod.
Or is there something seriously…unnecessary about the presentation discs I have started to receive from record companies.
Its very nice, is, I suppose, what I SHOULD say.
But I have problems with should.
A collectable gesture, denoting my part in the campaign to make Jamie T (100,000 copies sold, a presentation framed plaque) and The Fratellis (900,000 copies sold, an even bigger presentation framed plaque) popular?
I mean I’ve been doing this job , for what seems like 500 years now, and this is the first time these things have ever been presented to me.
And now I get two in a week.
Does this mean that I am now in the club?
Some 25 years after saying, in a weekly music paper review, that Thriller, the follow up to Off The Wall, would probably not sell as well as its predecessor?
A footsoldier in the salesforce for an industry that sells that which is freely exchangeable?
I mean imagine that, selling something that’s freely avaialble!
But then, when I was young on the rain soaked Irish plains of my youth, and I’da told me da I could see into the future and we’d all be buying 70 odd brands a bottled water he’d a thunk that I was drunk.
This is progress, is it?
This is good, a right thing? I’m enjoying, glad to be part of this, am I ?
Oi don’t know whether to be pleased, rectified,all glowing inside or think that this is conclusive proof that the bottom of a rapidly emptying barrel being scraped.
Mind you if they want to give me a Modern Times one, no need to send it the car, I’ll come and get it myself.
Posted by
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20:50:53
As a writer I suspect that the problem with recognition is that it’s something you crave when you’re not getting it, but are suspicious of when it arrives. Perhaps in these instances you can be grateful for the thanks and try not to think that ‘the man’ has compromised you in some way. On the flipside I’ve always wondered who I could find to blame for the ubiquity of The Fratellis, so consider yourself a marked man!