I'll repost this right below Watcher's post so that it can be seen again...

But before I do, let me just comment on being called stupid. Watcher, I'm very aware of what a satellite feed is, it is not a CHART - just as you put it. I'm also aware that a satellite feed is regulated by the US government, then through businesses that correctly obtain a license to use the airwaves, i.e. XM, Sirius, DirectTV, etc. My searches are not showing that Atlantic Satellite has a legitimate "feed" service. But for some reason because I'm supposed to believe some website, I'm attacked when I don't, and any research I attempt to dig up, leads me nowhere.

Again you and several of the other new people chiming in for the thread have said that SESAC is not on the up and up. However, I mention in a post that I'm personally getting paid for my airplay from my muisc and know from first hand experience that it's correct, yet you insist I'm being lied to. I'm getting paid - real money, I didn't have to pay SESAC to get it. It doesn't get any more real than that.

No, I didn't have to save someone's life from drowning as a kid to be honest and full of integrity - the opportunity has never presented itself in that form. But since you do want to go there, I did save someone injured in skiing accident when I was about 15. However, in business I'm not sure how saving someone from drowning or accidents has anything to do with whether or not I'm a good person to deal with. Hell, I've read about axe murderers who've done good deeds too, should I do business with them? This is getting silly.

Obviously, we've got a large organization of people here at JPF and VMG was hoping to get some business from us. Unfortunately it has been reduced to attacks on Brian, JPF, myself and others because we won't believe the hype. If that means I'm stupid and can't get anywhere in the music business (oh wait, did I mention I'm the first non-signed artist on iTunes Music Store - or is that another scam that I'm being paid for having my music on?), then so be it.

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C.Holly, you are making the assumption that no one went to the vmg website to read it. I did. Right before I made my post that I know SESAC is paying me for airplay that I'm getting, more than I ever got with BMI.
However, my feelings about VMG are not good based on the website that I saw. Here's why:

1. For as much money as VMG claims to be worth with/for artists and all this distribution power and international reach, they have a surprisingly poor design and implementation for a website. Any business worth their salt will spend the appropriate money and pay someone to design a proper site that will attract business not turn it away.

2. You C.Holly, Fingers, and Frank who has edited the original post to remove VMG's website link also mention Satellite radio services. Currently there are two in America. They are called XM and Sirius, if there are others they are operating outside of the US government jurisdiction here in the States, and that would be considered illegal. The mentions here of atlantic-satellite being worldwide would thus be incorrect.

2. a) Upon visiting atlantic-satellite's website it too is also one of those poorly designed sites that screams we're not legitimate. Compare atlantic's site to XM or Sirius and you'll see what I mean.

3. The original post was extremely brief and at one time made some obscure references to a business that didn't really explain what that business does. It was not a press release as you mentioned it was. For it was a press release it was not posted in a common press release format. Any PR person who gets results would know how to correctly format one. Frank obviously does not.

4. We suddenly get two new people who happen to know about this post and immediately come post here in defense of a poorly written "press release" and equally poor website that is not well received. You keep coming back to post about some people that hardly bring up anything in Google that is relevant to the music business. In fact I only found one reference to Bobby in wikipedia, and the rest is the BFIN for VMG. Attempting to pull anything up on the Colonel, well let's just say there isn't anything except for VMG.

5. When someone other than Brian actually responded and also asked questions about the business, Frank, Fingers, the Colonel, and even you, well, they got ignored. Except in the case of you.

6. You, C.Holly, are defending people who may have left a legacy, but I'm personally not able to dig up any information on any of these people that gives me any feeling of comfort. In the Google age, you have to go out of your way to actually not show up on their radar. Especially if you have any presence on the internet or in entertainment.

So, in response to this entire thread. It would seem that there is no headway to be made here when a business cannot properly promote itself and/or explain itself. It's not up to you C.Holly to tell us that VMG is legitimate. It's up to VMG customers, which if they had such great clients would be making them the god's that you claim they are. One phone to my representative at SESAC has already disproven that anyone has heard of this amazing company called VMG. Until this thread I'd never heard of them. I'm willing to bet that ZZ Top hasn't heard of them either - considering they're signed & distributed with Warner Brothers Records. I don't know about Alan Jackson as I'm not a fan of his.

I think that's enough of this thread.

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Jody

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