The Skinny on Record Promotion
July 10th, 2007 by Fuzz
Here are some tips for getting your self-produced CD on the radio.
1.) If you aren’t Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, or Hank Williams himself, please don’t sign 10 copies of a CD that nobody’s ever heard of and give them to the program director at the radio station. It makes you look small time and silly. If I took a bunch of homemade CD’s and signed, “Aloysius Muckaluck,” it would have the same amount of credibility as your unknown name. So… just make the CD look professional, drop it off somewhere, and hope for the best.
2.) If you drop off hats that say “Minnesota Rock & Country Hall of Fame,” but they do not have YOUR name on them somewhere, I can only assume that you stopped there as a tourist and bought some hats before you stopped by the radio station. If you want to buy me a random hat, pick up something that I’m more likely to enjoy, like a Packers cap.
3.) Here’s a biggie. If you have t-shirts made up with the logo of your new CD, DO NOT BUY ANY MEDIUMS! As you can see from the above photo (click to enlarge), I may have lost weight, but I haven’t worn a medium since 5th grade. If the program director or music director at the radio station you want to have your CD played at is a male, there is virtually no way that he will fit into a medium. Just skip them all together. I’d even venture to say anything smaller than XL is a waste of your money. And, since we’re talking t-shirts, the PD/MD is not even going to consider wearing your t-shirt unless it has some kind of witty slogan on it. So, don’t come up in here with a boring photocopy of your CD cover ironed onto an off white t-shirt.
That’s all I got.
July 10th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
At least the shirt isn’t pink! HA!
July 10th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Well, you didn’t have to get all snotty about it. You could have just sent them back to me.
July 10th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I’m going to send him a Pink t-shirt now Tracy… Hello Kitty your style Fuzz?
July 10th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Fuzz Martin in a tight tee shirt. Hawt.
July 10th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Please…no more…I already have to work with this man walking around in a size medium.
July 10th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
In that case JG you’re getting some xtra smalls to scare fuzz…
July 10th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Honestly, Tom, somebody gave me an XS pink t-shirt to wear as a joke once. I actually think there’s a picture of it somewhere on this website, but I’m not quite sure.
July 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
There IS a picture on here and it was posted by Claude! Now if I only had the patients to find it…..
July 10th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
http://fuzzmartin.com/2006/12/07/fuzzs-christmas-card-sneak-peak/ I was bored what can I say…