Originally Posted by Brian Austin Whitney
Stevens119,

There's plenty of scam artists happy to "listen" to anything you send them. And they'll do all sorts of things... for a price.

Be very careful, as I don't know any active producers who want (or more importantly have any use for) unsolicited demos from people they don't personally know and/or who are not referred to them by someone they trust.

Brian



Originally Posted by Brian Austin Whitney
I doubt anyone will ever hear your music Jackie.





Yeah...but you can't scare people that are just staring out into being afraid to play songs for people. They should play them for anybody that will listen. If you run into a scammer, just tell them no.

You certainly can't have a demo, and be afraid to play it...that's a pretty bad foot to start off on.

Being a person who has never been scammed...I have to wonder, where are people finding these scammers at? They must be hiding... or maybe they just don't do business with the legitimate...

I completely understand that you intent was to be honest and realistic. It just seemed like quite a jaded reaction. You gotta let people dream, and figure things out for themselves. Most likely, nobody will hear that demo where it's been sent...lesson learned. Try something else. It's certainly not gonna hurt to send demos to the circular file...it could get misplaced!

I totally agree that sending uninvited demos to the unexpecting is useless. But I know of a few cases where that exact thing has started long careers for people I know.