Linkin Park May Leave The Firm

I wonder if this will lag the album at all...?

 

Depending on how involved the band is in their management, it could definetely lag production of the album, if it hasn't already begun. Linkin Park needs to stick to what they do best: making music. Let the moneymen do the business.

 

It seems to me that The Firm and Rob McDermott are going to leave on good terms. I mean, he's willing to pay $1 million to buy out his contract.

This won't affect Linkin Park's next album at all. This has nothing to do with Linkin Park. This is about Rob McDermott and The Firm.

 

If I was The Firm, I wouldn't let them go without a fight. Letting a manager buy out his contract for just a million (it's most likely worth more), and in return the manager gets a high-profile act and will start his own agency? That's competition, and by letting them go, they're basically saying, "sure, compete with us! we love it!".

Fuck that.

 

I wouldn't be so sure about that. I mean, Linkin Park has been out of the spotlight for a while and with every album they sell less and less. Though The Rising Tied was a great album, it flopped on the charts. I'm pretty sure the Snow White Tan album won't sell well either.

 

Linkin Park might have been out of the loop for a few years, but if Nine Inch Nails can get the #1 (or whatever high debut number With Teeth got) after being away from the scene for a good 5 or 6 years, why can't Linkin Park?

I have no doubt in my mind their next album will do incredibly well. Not Hybrid Theory numbers, but it'll sell better than an album from any other rock band, like Nickelback or some such band.

 

The third album will sell less than Meteora. I'm thinking around 2x platinum maybe. That's still good numbers however.

I never looked at the NIN thing that way. Basically, if you've made a name for yourself on the charts, you'll sell well. Even if you put out crap CDs (50 Cent). I know what you're exactly talking about now.

 

So this isn't harming the band or the new album at all, right? I'm kind of confused about all this record label stuff that LP has been doing over the past year. I know they settled their problems with Warner Bros, but what is this ''Firm'' thing?

 

Everybody, just relate this situation to Jerry McGuire.

 

Or the show "Entourage" on HBO. The whole second season delt with a situation like this.

 

I disagree with you guys. I think the third album will sell MORE than Meteora, but at the same time less than Hybrid Theory, if they can get the right promotion and make their way back into the limelight again. My reason being Meteora took two and a half years to write, while this album is going to take nearly four--almost as long as it took to write hyrbid theory...This might turn out being a greater album then you all think.

 

I mean like the whole process of the album coming together starting when they formed as a group in 1996. They had their whole lives to write hyrbid theory and they were kind of rushed to make Meteora to please everyone. This might be a little different.

 

yeah im sure they had some of the stuff they put on hybrid theory years before. im sure songs such as esaul and in the end early demos were not written and recorded in 4 weeks. meteora seemed rushed to me. this album though, has been in the making since meteora came out (i would assume, since thats what happened with the previous album). lets give them a little more credit here. im saying theyll sell 7x plat over a course of 2 years;p that is of course if the album is going to be what im hoping it will turn out to be. but shit i am a high hoper

lets HOPE that this next record will be good. Papercut/Points of Authority good. not breaking the habit/nobodys listening good. i dont want to hear a shit load of new age rock bullshit. if i wanted that, id pop in some black eyed peas or **quivers** Nine inch nails. i want scream rap/rock. what theyre known for.

am i right?