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FraDonaghy	Date: July 11, 2007 @ 2:51 AM Anyone here have any experience (good or bad) with Taxi.com? I was thinking of signing up there, but with the costly membership fee and then further submission fees I was wondering if it is worth it all.
zedsalt	Date: July 11, 2007 @ 11:33 AM I'm not a full-fledged member, but I use their musicians' referral and get lots of newsletters from them. The only thing that gives me cause for pause is their jury system. Regardless of how many submissions they get for a project, they only submit a handful of them to the music users. I can't help but think that there are people seeking material that would be much more likely to think my stuff appropriate than would Taxi's group of industry insiders.
FraDonaghy	Date: July 17, 2007 @ 9:26 AM Thanks Zed.
anmolmajhail	Date: July 28, 2007 @ 1:02 PM thanks
Distilled1	Date: May 15, 2008 @ 1:28 AM We used Taxi to find a few drummers back in the day, I think it was a not worth it decision we found, but they do more than that as well, many things ...haven't been there in YEARS though maybe worth a look into again...
TameasDust	Date: July 10, 2008 @ 2:06 AM
GeneHilbert	Date: September 18, 2008 @ 9:56 AM My thought is until you try you never know. And the big question; Do you have faith in or believe your art is worth the investment?
zedsalt	Date: September 19, 2008 @ 3:44 AM The only problem I have with what you just said, Geno, is the notion that quality and marketability are synonymous. When a songwriter/songwriting team's natural predisposition is toward writing material that would be good for advertising, movie placement, providing radio-friendly songs for performers who need material, etc., there's certainly nothing wrong with that! And there's nothing wrong with taking advantage of someone else's marketing experience, skill set, connections, etc. in exchange for a fee, either. But here's a MIGHTY big difference between noticing that there's hardly ever any call for one's art in the Taxi listings and lacking faith in it.
zedsalt	Date: September 19, 2008 @ 3:47 AM And, y'know, it's not like I've never tried contriving music to make a buck. I like money as much as the next guy, but it took me a while before I could enjoy making music again. And...fact-facing time, here...I don't recover from anything as quickly now as I did then...
GeneHilbert	Date: September 20, 2008 @ 7:33 PM Funny - I don't see that I implied any thing about quality and/or marketability being synonymous. Having enough faith in your product to invest in it, is pretty straight forward.
zedsalt	Date: September 21, 2008 @ 3:34 AM ...and with Taxi, the sole concern is marketing. The membership fee and submission fees are, obviously enough, in no way an investment in your art; they are the simplest form of financial investment: money spent in an effort to make money. Even the critiques are geared toward making more profitable music, the antithesis of increasing the eloquence and truth of your musical expression. And not everyone thinks of music as mere "product".

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