Thanks RJ Yeah, I'm in no rush to get her involved in the business end - my goal right now is just for her to get to learn that next step, how to go from a song to a recording.
We have one guy we know who has a home studio who is very cheap - $25 an hour including his time - and has a great rapport with my D. Has a decent weighted-key ketboard, although of course it isn't the same as a piano. He's a singer and songwriter too, has a little indie label, records a lot of gospel, soul, hip-hop stuff. Goos influence on my very Aryan daughter
But at the same time we have these two sound engineers who are friends of my daughter's voice teacher - aging hippies who did the sound for Rolling Stones tours and Ginger Baker recording drums in Africa, used to play with Joe Cocker in the 70's, etc.
They just finished putting in the whole sound system for a new performing arts complex at a college here. Spent two hours of their time free last week doing a scratch recording there to see what her material was like and how she sounded and they are drawing up a proposal for me. A nice piano and a fabulous mic - D12 sounds great even though it's just a rough recording. I don't know how expensive it will be to work with them, but they are great guys too and clearly very good as engineers.
May end up doing a little of both if these guys aren't too expensive.
Not really interested in getting involved with record companies at this point. Would like for D to have a little CD she could sell at gigs or maybe on the internet? D, being a performer, is a little reluctant to sell any of her songs to a publisher, but luckily the songs she's least attached to are probably the most commercially saleable. And she's so prolific, she has written about 30 good songs in the last 8 months.
Definitely just want this to be fun for D12 - not work. Just following her lead at this point.
