TAXI Road Rally / Off My Mind

TAXI Road Rally / Off My Mind

After years of getting emails from TAXI—“The World’s Leading Independent A&R Company”—about why they think it’s a good idea for me to join, I’m still skeptical. Why is there a $300 registration fee? It seems like it could easily be a bad scheme to rip off struggling artists if you ask me, especially with other options for getting song placements popping up by the minute. And why is it called TAXI?

However, in their most recent spam, their “Road Rally” program caught my attention. It seems like it could actually be good, and $300 for a good conference seems fair. And then I can check out what the rest of the membership benefits are, too: song listing submissions, critiques, etc. My curiosity got the best of me, so I signed up and am flying out to L.A. on Thursday to check out the conference (and visit my homies Blake and Doug).

I may not have time to keep you posted here during the weekend, but I’ll definitely follow-up with my thoughts on the conference, my better-educated perception of TAXI and hopefully an interesting story or two.

And in other news, here’s another take from my video experiment. It’s weird not knowing where to look, etc. when making these. I’ve always thought singing to the camera was a little too cheesy, but maybe I just need to get over that. Maybe I’ll get Doug to give me some video performance pointers. Anyway, this song is called “Off My Mind,” which I wrote and recorded with Just Guns.

In case you’re on a mobile phone, here’s the audio version: