Apparently Simels' buddies at Duncan's blog figure people used to buy 45s to not play them. But, then, they believe what he says without bothering to find out that he's lying. Such is what passes as a "brain trust" c. 2015.
Among the depressing facts about that dopey dirge is that, today, a vintage 45 of Lennon's best selling single, the dreadful "Imagine" goes for more than 100 dollars in some sales. But, then, Duncan's brain trust apparently believes people buy it for the B side, "Working Class Hero". Fast, how many of the words to that can you recite off the top of your head?
I just wanted to get to use a digraph, only reason I posted this.
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Update: For What It's Worth
Simels' claim that in the late 80s he was paid $5000 for that unpublished piece mentioned in the second update to last night's post. I have no idea if that's true but I found this on Who Pays Writers? "An anonymous, crowd sourced list of which publications pay freelance writers, and how much."
Search Results for: Rolling Stone
November 20, 2014 by
who pays
Report: $250 for 500-1000 word news item online in 2014. Medium reporting.
October 9, 2014 by
who pays
Report: $75 for 1000-2000 word feature online in 2014. Medium reporting.
April 28, 2013 by
who pays
Report: $150 for a 500-word Web piece
December 5, 2012 by
who pays
Report (print): “I have heard from an editor that Rolling Stone pays about $4/word.”
Report (online): “Event coverage, Q&A-style interview: $150”
Update 2: Sims the Dim is now relying on the claim that they bought the single of "Imagine" for the B side, "Working Class Hero" oddly, enough, in those places I've seen the old 45s being sold at such inflated prices, the disc is identified as the disc for "Imagine" not the song he alleges is more popular. I've never, once, heard anyone sing at events like the stupid ball drop or other contexts. I wonder what its recording history would reveal as opposed to covers of Lennon's dreary dopey atheist hymn.
Update 3: After a while it gets to be boring trading comments with Steve Simels. With someone like him, who has no qualms about misrepresenting what people say to people who, as well, don't care if something is the truth, it becomes an endless attempt to bring things back to the topic.
The rump of regulars at Eschaton obviously don't care about honesty.
It was a 15-20,00 word piece intended for the center of the print mag (there was no online Rolling Stone in 1989) that required a lot of research and interviews. Five grand was pretty good money for something like that back then; if memory serves only Esquire paid any better, and then only if you were Norman Mailer or some such.
ReplyDeleteAlso: No serious Beatles/Lennon fan has ever thought "Imagine" was anything other than a Hallmark greeting card of a song. Sorry.
Now "Working Class Hero," on the other hand, is a great song.
Sims, it's me you're talking to, not the Eschatots, I know what a liar you are, they choose not to know. Twenty six years ago, for an article they didn't run, really. I'd have to see the cancelled check with a note that that is what it was for before I'd begin to believe you.
ReplyDeleteThe issue wasn't the quality of the song, I said it was a piece of crap two years ago, which is what got you set off origininally. I could go looking through the trash files of my comments to see if those could be revived but why bother, you'd just lie about that.
The question was if it were popular and that is obvious from the fact that the friggin' 45 of it sold better than any of his other singles and the reception that is documented all over the pop music internet and among such as choose it for the stupid Times Square ball drop.
It's a testimony to the shallowness of your specialty that someone who told such obvious lies as you have about this isn't laughed out of it. "Show business ethics is a contradiction in terms". I can't remember who said it but it's doubly true in the pop music business. It's all phony and you are just one of the bigger phonies in it.