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MULTIMEDIA/ShawnPhillips.com
1979-present
Multimedia is a business communications, content consulting, and
production company.
Accomplishments and
responsibilities
Artist Management
Responsibilities: exclusive
representation of Universal recording star Shawn Phillips. Phillips has 18
major label albums available at major retailers worldwide and currently
sells in excess of three million CDs. Manage domestic and international
tours, music license agreements, executive producer, distribution, conduct
piracy investigations, arrange interviews, fan mail, manage the artist’s web
site, day-to-day bookkeeping, hire publicists, radio promoters, accountants,
booking agents, and attorneys.
Results: Developed and
managed a12-year public relations and marketing campaign that re-profiled a
former international music celebrity that included a new album promoted
worldwide called No Category and reissued 10
major label CDs. Publicity included over 200 feature press
articles, 150 feature radio interviews, 50 TV appearances, an average of
1,000-fan email per month, Washburn and Godin guitar sponsorships, three
certified Platinum and Gold record award certificates, two Lifetime
Achievement Awards, and an average of 50 concerts in five foreign countries
per year. In addition, the launch and management of an e-commerce web site
with an average of 100,000 page views monthly.
Click here for how I became
Shawn Phillips manager
http://www.shawnphillips.com/features/acidheadandrockstar.htm
Music Publishing
Co-publisher (Arlo Hennings
Publishing Company) and Director of Talent Acquisition for Polygram Music
International.
Responsibilities: signed
and developed artists for major label recording companies
Managed studio budgets,
negotiated with attorneys, and organized production.
Results: signed three
songwriters to major label recording contracts. Marketed a music-publishing
catalog that was sold internationally.
Clients included: Island
Music, PolyGram, Universal, A&M, and Warner Brothers.
Recording studio manager
Managed a commercial
24-track recording studio and turnkey audiotape and CD duplication business.
Responsibilities:
prospecting for business, knowledge of analog and digital multi track
recording techniques, development and design of interactive multimedia.
Including soundtracks, storyboarding, jingles, audio sweetening, songs
casting, sampling, voice over and needle drop work.
Results: numerous
productions appeared on TV, radio, corporate theatre, individual artist
albums, and kiosk.
Clients included fortune
100 to 50 companies: Carmichael Lynch, Daytons, Honeywell, 3M, Northwest
Airlines, Medtronics, Best Buy, Target, Fairview Health Systems, and
numerous independent artists.
Music distribution One Stop
Manager
Offered retail support and
distribution for over 100 independent labels.
Responsibilities: compiled
sales reports, new account development, catalog development, facilitated
inventory control, credit reports, and managed warehouse staff.
Results: opened 56 new
stores and 5 major retail chains. Added 125 new releases per year and 14
releases achieved major radio airplay, sold out 1,000 + seats venues, and
sold in excess of 500,000 units @ $9.99 each.
Clients included: Rounder
Records, Sugo, Narada, Windham Hill, Shanachie and National Public Radio,
Best Buy, Musicland, Electric Fetus, and numerous independent retailers
throughout the Midwest.
Special Event Coordinator
Responsibilities: arranged
for the public appearance of entertainers. Venues varied from small
corporate theatre to 50,000 seat arenas.
Results: Booked the first
South African tours for Shawn Phillips and Crosby Stills and Nash.
Ticket sales were in excess
of 5.2 million dollars. Corporate theatre included: Leo Kottke and Michael
Johnson.
Clients: Government of
South Africa and Fairview Foundation.
Artist
On a borrowed guitar, I
passed the audition and joined the Teet Zee Flies in 1979. The only problem
was I thought that they couldn’t play their way out of cardboard box (so I
thought). I left to start another band called Vitamin Q. The Teet Zee Flies
changed their name and became major label A&M recording artists The
Suburbs. The “Burbs” for short, became one of the most popular groups in
Minneapolis (and I thought I was a talent scout?). My band, Vitamin Q lasted
for five years (1979-1985). I performed lead guitar at nightclubs,
roadhouses, schools, riverboats, and ballrooms. Vitamin Q’s claim to fame
came from my song about the 80’s Me Generation, Me Magazine, which
appeared on the KQRS' radio "Best of the Twin Cities Beat" album and TV
show. Vitamin Q was better known for their rehearsal space. Pulling on
experience from my Dance Hall days, I helped to transform the group's
warehouse rehearsal space into a concert hall that provided free access to
original groups. The space became known as "On Broadway" and was the
recipient of feature stories that acclaimed the venue as a critical spawning
ground for developing talent.
I wanted to be a writer,
too. My first self-published chapbook of poetry hit the streets in 1983,
entitled, Tomorrow Never Answers. The book was hand distributed to
area book and record stores however, it was mostly offered from the stage.
The poetry book received a feature write-up in the Reader magazine and
finally was sold by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti at his New City Lights
bookstore in San Francisco. After Vitamin Q disbanded in 1985, and with the
help of producer and future music business partner Marty
Weintraub, I
recorded a double album and accompanying 40-page story entitled Burden of
the Beat - the Eyelid Movie, a libretto, which parodied the idea of
wanting to be rock star. The Plains Art Museum in Moorhead, Minnesota
offered me a grant to exhibit the multimedia piece. The Forum newspaper in
Fargo, North Dakota said the project was "worth seeing and hearing". In
addition, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press,
nominated the work for their top 10-picks of the year. The Minnesota
Historical Society documented the work (AV collection disc #175-A). My most
recent work How the Acid Head Saved the Dead Rock Star was published:
Tales from
the Rock 'N' Roll Highway
Marley Brant
ISBN: 0-8230-8437-X
Watson-Gupitll / Billboard
May 2004
Today, I produce original music works on a digital
ProTools Mbox recording studio system. I am also the CMO of the record label
Early Morning Hours, which recently celebrated two international
releases No Category and Faces by Shawn Phillips.
Click
here to read my
music biography, Castles
Made of Sand: Contributory to the 80s Minneapolis Music Scene
~ recorded live ~ by Arlo Hennings
Education
Master
Degree Hamline
University 2001
Baccalaureate of
Arts Metropolitan State
University 1995
Business
Management Minnesota School of
Business 1976
Special awards and
certificates: Graduate of Solution Sales training and two national
selling training programs.
Guest speaker as content
specialist for RED BUTTON IPTV conference Seattle, WA 2006
*References available upon
request
Email:
manager@shawnphillips.com
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