Myke Rock's M-Agency Announces "For Hire" Booking & Publicity Services!

Myke Rock announces "For Hire" booking and publicity services



Original act City Folk first to sign
Myke Rock's M-Agency makes the booking and publicity of musicians a snap! Qualified bands and other artists can now have a tour booked or significantly increase their local gig schedule by signing with Rock to represent them. Many packages are available including Full Service Booking & Publicity. Columbus original folk group City Folk were the first to sign and have chosen the full service package. "City Folk has made an important decision to move their career along with our booking and publicity efforts. Like most acts, they have day jobs that just don't allow them the time to commit to the full-time job of effective professional representation", Rock said.

Engagements are booked as "exposure-driven", though some gigs will pay guarantees and others will pay the band a percentage of the door. The Booking & Publicity package includes media releases issued to appropriate media in the area of the engagement, listings on websites, a page on MultiFestival.Com completely serviced and updated by M-Agency and more. Follow-ups are made for possible stories in papers, possible radio interviews and performances, and other areas of publicity. The band will have its information posted on that area's community/music websites and each show will be submitted to JamBase as well as receive extensive coverage at MultiFestival.Com. Bookings can be "one-offs", supplemental or tour production. Artists provide a fee to M-Agency, upon approval, and get immediate action. M-Agency will also do the same for nightclubs and other venues, providing full-service booking and publicity by contract.

For more information, keep checking MultiFestival News and/or send an email to: magencyartistrelations@multifestival.com.

Grammy Winning Producer Holds FREE Workshop at ComFest!

Moses Avalon presents expensive two day workshops all over the world for
recording industry execs and lawyers, but Comfest has got him for you,
for FREE!

Comfest is bringing you Moses Avalon this Saturday (6-24) at 11:30am on the Solar Stage. The workshop will last about an hour. After the workshop he will be avialbe for a book signing at the Cringe.com merch booth, and will probably appear there on Sunday as well. You can also buy his books and sign up for his e-list, a valuable insider's tool, at www.mosesavalon.com.

Moses Avalon is a Grammy winning producer and top selling, controversial author of 4 books on music business topics. He will discuss the "Three Step Process to Success as a Recording Artist: Get Fans, Get Noticed, Get Signed."

All performers interested in learning more about the music and recording industry SHOULD INDEED attend.

Onstage antics mar Rock Hall of Fame ceremonies

Onstage antics mar Rock Hall of Fame ceremonies

By David Bauder
Associated Press

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

NEW YORK -- Between an ugly feud among Blondie members spilling over onstage and a rancorous letter from the absent Sex Pistols, the latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class did not enter quietly at ceremonies last night.
The animosity even made Ozzy Osbourne, inducted with Black Sabbath, seem sedate.

As midnight arrived under the chandeliers of the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, Lynyrd Skynyrd was performing the song that launched countless cigarette lighters, "Free Bird," to celebrate their own induction. Famed jazz trumpeter Miles Davis completed the honorees.

When Blondie, the most commercially successful band to emerge from a fertile New York rock scene that also produced Talking Heads and the Ramones, reformed after 15 years, they didn't include former members Frank Infante and Nigel Harrison. The pair sued unsuccessfully to join.

Infante, Harrison and Gary Valentine, another former member left behind in a business dispute, were barely acknowledged by former chums Deborah Harry, Chris Stein and Clem Burke as they received their awards.

Infante begged to perform with the band.

"Debbie, are we allowed?" he pleaded before Blondie performed their hits "Heart of Glass," "Rapture" and "Call Me."

"Can't you see my band is up there?" Harry replied. The three rejected members walked offstage, but not before Infante groaned into the microphone.

Punk rockers the Sex Pistols had turned down the honor in a profane letter that compared the hall to "urine in wine." Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner read the letter, and invited the band to pick up their trophies at the rock hall in Cleveland.

"If they want to smash them into bits, they can do that, too," Wenner said.

Behind the unnerving stare of singer Johnny Rotten and the lacerating lyrics of "God Save the Queen" and "Pretty Vacant," the Sex Pistols appeared the most shocking of the first punk-rock generation in the mid-1970s. The Pistols imploded after one album, with Rotten saying, "ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" before walking offstage after their last show for decades.

Osbourne may be better known now as an addled reality TV star, but his musical legacy with Black Sabbath got its due with the band's induction.

Osbourne has badmouthed the hall of fame for waiting a decade to induct Sabbath, a cause taken up by Metallica member Lars Ulrich in his induction. Metallica guitarist James Hetfield and Ulrich both said their band would not exist without the example of Black Sabbath.

"If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy," Ulrich said. "No fun."

Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward did not perform, but Metallica rattled the walls with versions of "Iron Man" and "Hole in the Sky."

"Thank you to all Sabbath fans everywhere," Ward said. "Hopefully our induction tonight will add to the validation ... (and) hard rock and heavy metal will have an enduring and everlasting place in rock history."

Osbourne thanked his wife, Sharon, who sat in the ballroom with their daughters Kelly and Aimee.

Davis was inducted by fellow jazz musician Herbie Hancock, who said the trumpeter often played with his back to the audience simply because he was conducting the band.

"He was a man of mystery, magic and mystique," Hancock said. "It was often said he was an enigma. I would venture to say that many who said that just didn't get it."

Southern rockers Skynyrd, whose name was a deliberately misspelled "tribute" to a hated high-school teacher, made much of its memorable music before a 1977 plane crash killed singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines.

"No one deserved to be here more than Ronnie Van Zant," said his widow Judy, "and he would truly be honored."

Johnny Van Zant, who replaced his brother as the lead singer, joined Kid Rock in a duet of the band's hit "Sweet Home Alabama," such a well-known prideful statement of Southern heritage that the title was later swiped for a Reese Witherspoon movie.

Each of the acts is still active. Blondie and the Sex Pistols reformed after long dormant periods, and so did Sabbath, who frequently headlined the popular Ozzfest summer concert tours.

The hall also is giving a lifetime achievement award to Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, founders of the influential A&M Records label that bore their initials and signed artists like the Police, Supertramp, John Hiatt, Cat Stevens and Alpert's band, the Tijuana Brass.

"I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago," said trumpeter Alpert.

Inductees are honored at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum in Cleveland. Highlights of the 21st annual ceremony will be shown on VH1 on March 21.

Derek Trucks Band EUIPMENT STOLEN!

Derek Trucks Band Equipment Stolen....
Emergency - Please Help
The Derek Trucks Band's equipment trailer was
stolen last night in Atlanta. I need to purchase
the following equipment ASAP. Anyone who is
willing to sell any of this gear, please call me
at 303-778-1156.

1) Two blackface Super Reverbs, 1965 preferred,
1964 through 1967 acceptable. Must have
original transformers; everything else will be
tweaked by me to Derek's spec. Speakers
not important - keep 'em if you like. As long
as the cabinet and baffle board aren't busted,
I don't give a **** what it looks like.

2) One 1974 or earlier Ampeg SVT head. Must
have original trannies. Looks not important
Not looking for the oldest production with the
6146B output tubes, please.

Posters in the Atlanta area, please be on the lookout for the stolen
gear. A list of serial numbers will be posted as soon as I receive it.

Lord Valve




Here is a list of the key items that were in the
DTB trailer. This is not a complete list but these
are the items we’re most likely to spot and hopefully
recover. Please contact me if anything turns up.

Lord Valve - 303-778-1156

1) Pearl 5-piece Drum Kit (Black)
Serial numbers: 652623, 642341,
83233, 6526231, 652163

2) '66 Fender blackface Super Reverb
with Weber DT-10 speakers.
Serial number: A13225

3) '65 Fender blackface Super Reverb
with Pile Driver speakers; has
external bias and plate voltage
testpoints on rear next to line
cord. EXT speaker jack has been
converted to a line output.
Serial number: A06896

4) Hammond B-3 w/custom Leslie foot switch
Serial number: pending

5) Leslie cabinet, model 147
Serial number: H25474

6) Hohner Clavinet model E7
Serial number: 3447 410

7) Yamaha Motif keyboard
Serial number: IHO1189

8) Cool 1974 Ampeg SVT Bass Head
Serial number: 112149

9) Ampeg 4X10 bass cabinet
Serial number: pending

10) 4 LP Congas in soft bags

11) '96 Matchless Chieftain 2X10 combo amp
Serial number: pending

12) Mikes:
3 Shure SM57
2 Shure SM58
Shure Beta 52
2 AKG 460
3 EV 406
Neuman KM184
2 Sennheiser 421
Beyer M88
2 AKG C414
EV RE20

13) Furman-PL plus power conditioner
Serial number: 7Z37

14) Drawmer DL441 4 channel compressor
Serial number: 706

15) 3 DBX 160A compressors
Serial numbers: pending

16) TC Electronics D2-Delay Unit
Serial number: 3107455

17) Yamaha SPX90 effects processor
Serial number: 26308

18) Cool Tascam DAPI DAT recorder
Serial number: 580001

19: Midas Mixing Console
Serial number: 173052 0324011056

20) Tascam 8 track model DA78HR
Serial number: 100101

21) Tascam 8 track model DA38
Serial number: 270262

22) Tascam 8 track model DA38
Serial number: 40369

CONTACT: Lord Valve

330-778-1156

rowlanda@hittintheweb.com

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