The Importance of Management For Your Band

So you are a leader and member of a band and you are starting to get really busy right? Since the beginning you have managed every aspect of how you and your members are going to make it. Every decision you make is in your hands and your band is looking up to you. What will you do if a record label approaches you and they offer you a deal? Who will you have to look over that offer for you? Will you take it into your own hands and continue on the path of self-management or will you relinquish your powers to a trust worth artist manager or Management Company?

It is important to remember that you are an artist and an artist must remain in the zone of creativity and cultivation. About.com talks about the importance of Band Management. Management can provide this opportunity to you because of the extra workload that would be taken off of your shoulders. You really don’t know how busy you can get until you get busy. It is important to make the right decision for you and your band members so that you can continue to become well known and profitable. You didn’t work this hard to get to where you are at now to throw it away on the notion that you are letting a stranger manage your career. That stranger has talents that you don’t have in terms of moving you in the right direction.

History is here to remind us that people have done this and it has ether worked or hasn’t worked. Creedence Clearwater Revival is a perfect example of self-management going wrong. The band’s leader John Fogerty thought that he could do it all. He was a very talented songwriter and producer for his band CCR. He looked over every contract and signed on the dotted line not knowing how it would impact him in the future. He didn’t have the advice of an artist manager that would have been able to help him develop his ideas and include everyone in the band in the process. This can be the turning point of you continuing a successful career or breaking up like CCR eventually had to do because of their differences.