Music Pro Show: Episode 28
MPS Episode 28: Why You DO NOT Want A Record Deal
Show Notes
I. Contact Us / Get Involved – Email: TheMusicProShow(at)Gmail.com
II. Brian’s Editorial: “Where I’ve Been and My Crisis Of Clarity”
III. 
Interview With Eddie Trunk & Trixter – Taken From Eddie Truck LIVE! broadcast on XM Radio’s “The Boneyard” Channel
Trixter was a glam metal band formed in Paramus, New Jersey in 1984. The band’s self-titled debut album attained gold status, reaching #28 on the Billboard 200 in 1990 and spawned three minor hit singles: “Surrender” (#72), “One In A Million” (#75), and “Give It To Me Good” (#65). Despite the fact that none of the singles made the Top 40 or garnered much radio airplay, the videos for all three tunes were in heavy rotation on MTV (especially “Give It To Me Good”, which was #1 on the channel for several weeks.) Trixter’s second album, Hear, was released in 1992, but was not as successful on MTV or in record shops.
They stated on VH1’s Top 40 Hair Band Countdown that their goal was to play the arena near their hometown, Continental Airlines Arena, in East Rutherford, New Jersey: they achieved this when Trixter opened for the Scorpions in 1991.
IV. Tonight’s Special Guest – Rich Ward: Guitarist, Singer, and Songwriter (Stuck Mojo / Fozzy) [PART 2 OF THE INTERVIEW]
Rich “The Duke” Ward is a singer, guitarist and songwriter who first made a name for himself as a founding member of the band Stuck Mojo. For years the band had been building a loyal fan base in rock clubs all across America, but their first big tour came in October of 95 when they were asked to join Machine Head as their opening act on a ten-week stint of North America. That was followed by the band’s first European tour, an eleven week run hitting Germany, France, Italy, England, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Belgium and the Czech Republic. On the last show of the tour, STUCK MOJO performed on the main stage at the prestigious Dynamo Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Having just been named the year’s best live band by MTV Europe, many rock journalists covering the event noted that STUCK MOJO was the highlight of the show.
The band would go on to tour with Pantera, Testament, Life Of Agony, Type O Negative, The 24/7 Spyz, Sevendust and Clutch. STUCK MOJO became Century Media’s biggest selling act in America and would remain so until 2004. In 2000, after six albums, eight world tours, years of living out of suitcases and constant friction between the band’s management and the band’s record company, Century Media, Stuck Mojo drifted apart. Rich went on to release several records with other band projects (Fozzy, Sick Speed) as well as a solo record and, after a 4 year hiatus, decided to reform Stuck Mojo by testing the waters with a 17-date tour of Europe in February 2005. Not only were the gigs incredibly well attended but the live reviews in the press were ecstatic, leading to 4 more tours of Europe and a 6 week tour of the States over the next 16 months.
In Part 2 of our interview, Rich talks about the progress/history of Stuck Mojo, starting Fozzy with WWF wrestler Chris Jericho, and he sheds some light on what it’s REALLY like to be a label-signed musical act. What you take away from this interview is a better picture of the reality of getting signed to a record label. You will also see what that can mean to any musician who loves their craft and entrusts the success and future of his/her career to a corporation whose goals and vision are of a different motivation. Rich’s unfettered candor and brutal honesty may be shocking to those with their eye on that proverbial Brass Ring.
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I still have collection of their albums and I still listen to their music and I am still looking for some of their songs which I don’t have and hoping that I will be able to see them perform again. I love how they play their music…
awesome music played and i want to listen tht music again and again and if i get tht apisode from somewhere then i will download and see again…..
Rich Ward has made a significant contribution to the genre of Rock.Stuck Mojo has played some great music.
In the beginning just remember it was darked and then someone smiled! try this:
To err is human, to forgive highly unlikely.