INTERNATIONAL MUSIC MEETING: "PLAY US YOUR HITS"

The second panel of the day was our 2009 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC MEETING: "PLAY US YOUR HITS"
Moderated by Max Tolkoff (Radio Consultant, WFNX Boston), the panelists--Alicen Schneider (VP Music Creative Services, NBC Universal TV); Anders Hjelmtorp (CEO, Export Music Sweden); Cybele Pettus (Sr. Music Supervisor, EA Games); Jeff Blue (Sr. A&R Consultant, Jive Records); Seymour Stein (Chairman, Sire Records Group) and Tom Zutaut (Original A&R, Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue)--utilized scientific methodology (well, actually, they picked from a bunch of people who raised their hands) to select a few lucky audience members to play a 60-second snippet of their music. "Hit or miss?" "Smash or trash?" "Mustard or pants?" All different ways of asking the same question, and surprisingly, all of the music selected was amazingly good. As Seymour Stein said, "I was dreading this panel, but everything has merit. There wasn't one song that I wouldn't want to either hear more of or see live." 

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