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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Dear Kanye
Dear Kanye,
You have my sincere condolences for your family loss. We are only blessed with one mother to nurture us and point us in the right direction. God bless her and give her all the rewards to be found in His grace.
You also have my condolences on your Grammy awards loss. When I look at the nominations I see that you have a genuine chance of winning three or four awards. I congratulate you on those wins. You are a brilliant creator who has put in a lot of time and energy. You have made a lasting mark on the music scene and deserve the awards you receive. A Grammy nomination is a great honor. Many artist including the Beatles never received nominations at the height of their careers, which brings me to my point.
You come from a generation which demands instant gratification. You want to be seen and heard, admired and patted on the back right in the middle of act one of your three act play. Before you learn how to bake cakes with consistency you want to bite into it and enjoy a taste while it's still in the oven. Your dictionary came without the word patience. In today's world, graduation from college is just a prelude to higher levels of education. For the master players in the world there is Medical school or Law school followed by an internship or residency. I am still sitting here trying to understand the sense of any person under 30 years old doing a biographical movie. Unless of course he feels his life and career is over but that's another story.
There is also a word humility which seems to escape young dogs. I learned a long time ago never to argue with success. No one can deny that there are a few self promoting flashy multimillionaires out there spitting and living the good life. However true success is measured by stability and longevity. When you produce your 20Th gold album or you write your 100Th song I will be the first to say you have proved yourself to be more that a loud mouth and a spoiled brat.
If you win 8 Grammy awards I will be very happy for you but very sad for the music industry. In a world where there is a concentration of power because of limited ownership of media companies, a clean sweep of the Grammy Awards would be a sign of the worst kind of corruption. If I am right and you win 3 or 4 awards, You should be proud of your accomplishments, humbly accept the acknowledgment of your contemporaries and move on to bigger and better records. You are just a baby in the music business. You have a long way to go.
God bless you and I hope you can accept this letter for what it is. - The opinion of one man who has been there and wishes you lots of success in a long career.
Patrick Adams
Producer/ arranger/ songwriter
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| Producer/arranger/songwriter Patrick Adams' career spans more than 30 years. His plentiful resume includes work with Sister Sledge (their 1974 debut LP on Atco/Atlantic Circle of Love), Loleatta Holloway, Coolio, Herbie Mann ("Superman," number 26 pop, early 1979, from the 1978 Atlantic LP Super Mann), Bumblebee Unlimited (the 1979 RCA LP Sting Like a Bee), Universal Robot Band (Dance and Shake Your Tambourine), Narada Michael Walden (I Don't Want Nobody Else, Love Me Only, and the radio-aired LP track "Give Your Love a Chance" from his 1979 Atlantic LP Awakening), and Musique ("In the Bush," number 29 R&B, fall 1978), among many others. Born Patrick Peter Owen Adams on March 17, 1950, in New York City, Adams' childhood was spent singing in choirs and attending concerts at the legendary Apollo Theater. When he was a preteen, Adams' father bought him a trumpet. In his teens, Adams began playing guitar and writing songs. He honed his arranging skills by dissecting the song structure and arrangement patterns of the records he heard on the radio. To build his audio engineering skills, he'd go to recording studios and observe how recordings were created. At 16, he was asked to join the Sparks, who he appeared with in the 1967 Warner Bros. movie Up the Down Staircase starring Sandy Dennis. Soon afterwards they were signed to Curb/MGM and the single "Cool It" b/w "Woe, Woe" was released. They began playing shows with Jerry Butler, the Rascals, and the Commodores. In 1970, Adams was hired as the vice president of A&R for NY-based Perception/Today Records, discovering and signing the teenage vocal trio Black Ivory. The group's lineup was lead singer Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe, and Russell Patterson. Their first single, Adams' ballad "Don't Turn Around," went to number 38 on Billboard's R&B chart in late 1971. Their first three singles and a Burgess song, the hopeful "If I Could Be a Mirror," were included on the Don't Turn Around LP, issued February 1972. They had two more charting singles on Today: "Time Is Love" b/w a credible cover of Michael Jackson's "Got to Be There" from the Don't Turn Around LP (number 35 R&B, early 1973) and "Spinning Around" b/w "Find the One Who Loves You" (number 45 R&B, summer 1973). In 1974, Adams left Perception/Today Records and started his own production company, PAPMUS (Patrick Adams Productions Music). One of Adams' best known recordings is Inner Life's "I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)." First released as a 12" single by Greg Carmichael on TCT Records, it was picked up by Prelude Records and went to number 22 R&B, late 1979. Adams and Carmichael produced many dance classics over their eight-year collaboration, including sides by Donna McGhee, Universal Robot Band, Bumblebee Unlimited, and Fonda Rae's original version of "Touch Me (All Night Long)." Cathy Dennis' remake of the Adams/Carmichael song held the number two pop spot for two weeks in spring 1991. Adams has won the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award three times, including a 1992 award for "Touch Me (All Night Long)." Other Adams-related releases are Eddie Kendricks's Arista LP Vintage '78 (reissued in 1997 by Razor & Tie), Kendricks' 1979 Arista LP Something More, the 1997 two-CD set Salsoul Essentials from U.K. label Charly Records, the CD reissue of Candi Station's 1976 Young Hearts Run Free, Debbie Taylor's 1997 Sequel CD Still Comin' Down on Ya, the Unidisc CD reissue of Musique's 1979 LP Keep on Jumpin', the Unidisc reissue of the Kay Gees' 1979 LP Burn Me Up, Rainbow Brown's 'Til You Surrender with Fonda Rae on Vanguard Records, Shannon's 1986 Atlantic LP Love Goes All The Way, the Main Ingredient featuring Cuba Gooding's 1981 RCA LP I Only Have Eyes for You, and sides by Gladys Knight, Ace Spectrum, Rick James, Jeanie Tracy, and Bruni Pagan. His engineering credits include Make It Last Forever by Keith Sweat, Follow the Leader & Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em by Eric B & Rakim, Rakim's The 18th Letter/Book of Life, Salt-N-Pepa's Hot, Cool & Vicious, and James Moody's Heritage Hum/The Teacher on Collectables. |
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| Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Dear Kanye
Dear Kanye,
You have my sincere condolences for your family loss. We are only blessed with one mother to nurture us and point us in the right direction. God bless her and give her all the rewards to be found in His grace.
You also have my condolences on your Grammy awards loss. When I look at the nominations I see that you have a genuine chance of winning three or four awards. I congratulate you on those wins. You are a brilliant creator who has put in a lot of time and energy. You have made a lasting mark on the music scene and deserve the awards you receive. A Grammy nomination is a great honor. Many artist including the Beatles never received nominations at the height of their careers, which brings me to my point.
You come from a generation which demands instant gratification. You want to be seen and heard, admired and patted on the back right in the middle of act one of your three act play. Before you learn how to bake cakes with consistency you want to bite into it and enjoy a taste while it's still in the oven. Your dictionary came without the word patience. In today's world, graduation from college is just a prelude to higher levels of education. For the master players in the world there is Medical school or Law school followed by an internship or residency. I am still sitting here trying to understand the sense of any person under 30 years old doing a biographical movie. Unless of course he feels his life and career is over but that's another story.
There is also a word humility which seems to escape young dogs. I learned a long time ago never to argue with success. No one can deny that there are a few self promoting flashy multimillionaires out there spitting and living the good life. However true success is measured by stability and longevity. When you produce your 20Th gold album or you write your 100Th song I will be the first to say you have proved yourself to be more that a loud mouth and a spoiled brat.
If you win 8 Grammy awards I will be very happy for you but very sad for the music industry. In a world where there is a concentration of power because of limited ownership of media companies, a clean sweep of the Grammy Awards would be a sign of the worst kind of corruption. If I am right and you win 3 or 4 awards, You should be proud of your accomplishments, humbly accept the acknowledgment of your contemporaries and move on to bigger and better records. You are just a baby in the music business. You have a long way to go.
God bless you and I hope you can accept this letter for what it is. - The opinion of one man who has been there and wishes you lots of success in a long career.
Patrick Adams
Producer/ arranger/ songwriter
www.papmus.com
Posted By Patrick Adams @ 3:08 AM |
| Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
There but for the Grace Of God...
I live in Manhattan in New York City.
On September 7, 2001, the Friday before 9/11,
I met with Judy T. in the lobby of Number One World Trade Center. Judy is my best friends wife. She worked on the sixty-something floor as a nurse. Her unselfish nature and pleasant personality made her a natural winner at anything she did, and as would be expected she was also the fire warden for her floor. As we stood in the lobby she jokingly asked if I came down by limo. She would always kid me about my flamboyant style.
"No," I laughed. "As a matter of fact I came in the worst possible choice. My music partner Tony Terrell was kind enough to bring me in his white van. I don't think I should leave him parked alone outside too long. Somebody might get the wrong idea!"
"Well here is my new cell phone number," she said proudly as she passed me the slip of paper.
"I have joined the 21st century! Now if I could only get my body to join me."
She was a little frightened about needing a hip operation. After a few more moments of small talk I exited. Tony made a wrong turn as we left and instead of hitting the Henry Hudson parkway we woundup having to drive through a maze of barriers and detours which took us the long way around the WTC complex.
I looked at Tony and made a joke about taking the grand tour.
Like many New Yorkers, on the morning of the eleventh I was awakened by a phone call and directed to my television. The first hour or so was spent trying to make sense of what was happening. It was at the moment that the first tower began to crumble that I was shocked into reality. My friend Judy is down there. Knowing her - shes doing her best to direct people to safety and not thinking of herself. After a short frantic search I found her number but it just kept ringing. For the first time in a very long time I cryed.
At about 11AM I got a call from J.C. a friend who had just started working maitainence at the WTC. "Man, I didn't go to work today because I had this killer toothache. I was in the waiting room at the dentist office when I saw what was happening. I would have been right up in there !"
At around noon D.H. called. "Yo my brother. I was sitting in my office at the WTC and got tired of these parking tickets staring up at me so I started out to walk down the block to pay them at the court house. Just as I came out the revolving door - BOOM!!"
By 1PM I was calm enough to call Judy's husband. We had been through a lot since college and I knew this would surely be a time to reach out to my best friend.
I wasn't sure what to say and each ring just added to the terror I was felling.
"Hello!" For a moment I froze. The voice on the phone was unsteady but familiar.
"Judy? What the hell are you doing home?" I melted into my sofa and tryed to absorb the moment.
"When I woke up this morning my hip was so sore I decided not to go in. I guess it was just not my time."
Today as I say a prayer for those who have passed, I think about the ten friends that I have today who for various reasons were not at work on the morning of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center!
I remember taking early morning flights from Newark Airport, I remember standing on the upper floors of the World Trade Center and I reflect on the two events never happening together.
Most of all I remember the phrase,
"There but for the Grace of God go I"
Posted By Patrick Adams @ 11:19 PM |
| Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Advice
When I was 15 years old i caught up with Smokey Robinson coming out of the Apollo theatre and asked his advice. He said "Forget about it!"
It took me about ten years to appreciate what he said. By then I was into a good career as a producer and had had about five hit records. But I understood what he was trying to tell me.
If you don't have a total commitment to making music work as a career, (Eat, sleep, drink, talk music) then forget about it. Even if you believe you are the most talented and creative person in the world- that is not enough. There are thousands of very talented creative people working at Burger King and Walmart.
There are also a lot of very untalented people on the radio and on TV. Entertaiment as a business is very MUCKED UP and UNFAIR. The odds of success are about the same as being drafted by the NBA, Atleast in the NBA you can see who really has talent.
I will never tell anyone to abandon their dreams. You must follow your heart. But in doing so, you must be prepared for a lot of hard work and constant rejection. Learn all that you can about the business. The worst thing that can happen is to hit it big and then not get paid.
As corny as it sounds, learn a trade. You have to have some way of supporting yourself until or if things don't work out in music. Try to become an intern at a studio or record company. Being close to the action wouldnt hurt.
Very few people today actually make a living in music as talented people. It is not a good occupation right now. In all honesty most of my income right now is from royalties as a producer and song writer. Thank God I was blessed with enough hit records and a good lawyer to keep me going.
I wish you success in all you do.
Just be realistic about it and you never know what might come to be.
sincerely
Patrick Adams
Posted By Patrick Adams @ 12:00 AM |
| Saturday, January 6th, 2007
Where are the woman Execs In Music?
January 2007 - Major record labels are like beached whales. Floundering and thrashing about, gasping for air.
Too fat to be effective and too dumb to do the right thing. Following in the footsteps of Big American business, In another five years or so there will be Two record labels and two radio networks competeing for the hearts and minds of the world.
American Idol has shown that real talent is not in their formula. They threw out one of the greatest female talents of late along with the bath water. Good Going guys!
Recently , an A&R rep from a major record label said that lyrics were not important to him. Only an Ass would think much less admit that lyrics were not important to him. Apparently the geniuses at the US Copyright Office agree. Copyright forms use to have spaces for (Words by) and (music by.) You no longer register songs, now you register "works."
Maybe the whole world needs to take the hint. Women are the nurturing factor. The American male has become a failure. Men have been pre-occupied with sex, cars and bling-bling. Quantity not quality. Pimp my ride, I don't care that it only gets 10 miles to the gallon. I don't want to work but I want the money. I don't want Kids but I want to spread my seeds in every available night depository.
If more woman were involved in the decision making at companies I'm sure BET and MTV wouldn't look like the Playboy channel.
Posted By Patrick Adams @ 3:56 PM |
| Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Support Each Other for Christmas
I want to wish all of my Isound friends a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hannukah, a Happy Kwanzaa or just a great peaceful week. In the spirit of the season wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone bought one downloaded from their three favorite artist. This would be showing true support and you'd be helping the economy too.
-patrick adams
Posted By Patrick Adams @ 1:21 AM |
| Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Sony The Big Baloney
Lately I have the feeling that somebody is asleep at the wheel over at SONY. What once was an innovative forward looking world class company is self-destucting before our eyes.
Case in point - Blank CDs. Over the last 10 years the one thing that I could count on in this world were Sony blank CDs. Until two months ago I never had a bad burn. O K you ask - was it hardware related? No, I am using an internal Sony CD drive. Ask me the other 30 or so trouble shooting questions and I will tell you that I am an experienced computer operator and experienced sound engineer. It is the CDs. Three times I have gotten bad CDs from Sony. Just to be sure, I have bought two software programs to test the blank media and both have reported defects in the blank media. Make a long story short I was further insulted by the hour of phone calls to different Sony customer service numbers around the world just to be told I was somehow to blame.
But wait, this is peanuts compared to my other observations about SONY. In the 1980s and 90s the future was bright. The walkman and watchman were true advances in personal entertainment. How did these geniuses miss the IPOD. They must have seen it coming. Mp3 players didn't happen over night. Or were they sleeping at the wheel, comfortable with their leadership in electronics.
Meanwhile, Sony Records isnt doing much better. At a time when the sale of latin and spanish music is exploding around the world how is it that Sony couldn't market and sell Juilio Iglesias. After selling 250 million records worldwide , his records were suppose to fly off the shelfs; And what about Michael Jackson.
Sony may be it's own worst enemy. The left hand sells records and dvds while the right hand sells computers, dvd- vcr recorders, blank disk and duplication software. You can not be all things to all people. If Sony wants to keep riding on the gravy train, It's time to grow up or get left behind at the Playstation.
Posted By Patrick Adams @ 10:52 PM |
| Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Tony Sylvester (Main Ingredients) Rest In Peace
Its never easy to talk about death. The subject reminds all of us that one day our turn will come. The death of a close friend has a way of shaking us into reality. It makes us re-evaluate where we are in our own lives.
Tony Sylvester was my friend. He was a pioneer and mentor. Before I went out to do battle with the "Gate Keepers" of Corporate Music America, we would often sit and he would give me pointers on what to say and what to ask for and what to look out for. When I was managing and producing the vocal group Black Ivory, Tony gave us nothing but support. We were not the competition. We were part of the riches growing out of Harlem.
Tony always had a big heart. He had a great eye and great ear for raw talent. He wasn't afraid to hire this young arranger when very few knew my name. He recorded many of my songs. He gave me the ultimate honor of allowing me to produce the Main Ingredient - "I Only Have Eyes For You" album. He trusted me with his 'baby.'
Over forty years he shared some very private thoughts with me. His love of family and his devotion to his children. I will always remember him for his joy of life and that life I will always celebrate.
"Tony, you have been my brother and I pray for you and rejoice in watching your black seeds as they grow." You are a Main Igredient of my life.
Posted By Patrick Adams @ 6:06 PM |
| Friday, October 13th, 2006
Friends (Maybe I like you more than you like me)
Not too long ago a close buddy of mine told me of an experience that left him shaken. He tried to borrow $25 from a co-worker. Just a month before, this same co-worker had borrowed and repaid $100 from my buddy. However when my buddy asked for the small loan he was rejected by the co-worked who said, "Maybe you like me more than I like you!"
Thats the way I am left feeling by some of my 'friends' here at Isound. Somedays when I look at my stats I notice I have recieved 200 page views but only 30 or 40 plays. When I make a friend request I will listen to at least one song. There have been times I have listened to 10 songs by a really good artist. I have bookmarked artist and even paid for a few downloads of people I wanted to listen to and support. As nice as it is to see big friendship numbers I would rather see some plays and downloads. I love music as a way of life. I think we need to be a little more respectful of each other. Then again - Maybe I like some of you more than some of you like me.
-Patrick Adams
Patrick Adams Productions Music Pages
PAP Records
Posted By Patrick Adams @ 3:25 AM |
| Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
This business of Music.
OK You are a real musician. You play real instruments in a real band. Your band travels from place to place to perform.You have invested time and energy in perfecting your craft. So now you are on Isound and myspace and anywhere you can get your music displayed dot com.
Wow, you have found a lot of other people of like mind and talent to network with. well kids there is only one more step necessary for this whole thing to work. remember when you were living in that other world (pre-internet) and you listened to broadcast radio. You also cherished good music. You bought music when it spoke to you. So little ones, Let the love begin. I am not talking about paying lip service. I am talking about putting your money where your heart is. When you hear a song or performance that moves you - get off the dime and buy a download. Show that you really do love that work. You pay everyone else in your life for their work. You want to be paid for your work. Let's pay each other. The cream of the crop will rise. The best artist may even make a living and the 'Music Business' may actually become a worthy and honorable occupation again.
Patrick Adams
Patrick Adams Productions
PAP Records
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