Artifact Page #9

I love that movie.

Thank you.

Oh my god, oh my god...

What's in that drink?

Extra caffeine?

It's the big meeting Sunday.

It's was nice to be in New York.

I had a chance to get away from the studio

and see some friends.

But the main focus of the trip

was this meeting.

I was excited that there was a chance

to work things out.

Unfortunately...

EMI canceled...

It was a long way to go

to get stood up,

but while I was in New York

I heard that

there were major changes happening

at the label once again and

that any possibility of a deal with EMI

was very unlikely.

Oh! I like that... What he is playing.

Gonna tell them I like that.

Did you record that?

No, no, the regular one.

Huh? No, no, I like the beginning

how you just played that.

Yeah.

It's f***ing f***ing because it's off.

It gets off.

You just got to listen to the click

you're good.

Hold on a second.

It's fine.

You just got to keep on that beat.

That's the thing.

I'm playing to the click but it's going slower.

(Yeah, I know)

but you're right with the click

so it's really hard.

You know you got to be like a machine.

Ahhhh! Humans!

You hear that the slicer is not with the click?

Right?

You want me to play that?

Yeah, go ahead, yeah, please do.

Prove me that the slicer is not slowing down!

I'll prove it right now.

Where is my goddam pick?

That's it... Use his pull-off...

Use my other thing...

It's like the performances between the two

are good enough so...

Oh yeah... The elbow, baby!

The f***ing elbow! Woo...

Here we come motherf***er! Yeah!

What else we...

Don't you just want to make

something that lives forever?

Something that's phenomenal?

Something that's great?

Something that's undeniable?

That touches the core

of every person that hears it?

Yeah! (You know)

Yeah. You want to make something beautiful,

something moving, something provocative,

something that's pure and true.

We're doing that.

I hope so.

All along EMI had been interested

in resigning us.

The problem was they kept offering us

different variations of the same terrible deal.

We decided we would consider resigning with EMI

if they were willing to make things right.

Especially as it would put an end

to this brutal lawsuit and ensure

that our album would see the light a day.

So, we went back to them one last time

and basically told them:

"Look,

these are our final terms and conditions,

either meet them

or there really isn't anything left

to talk about."

EMI responded saying

they'd get back to us in 24 hours

with their official final response.

It's a little weird

we haven't heard from EMI.

No word from EMI.

We're waiting for one finale response.

Aaahh...

...And... Nothing!

Still no word from EMI.

We're gonna hear from them tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the day.

It's not bad.

Tomorrow,

which is what we've been told again,

and again, and again, and again, etc.

That it was tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow...

Jesus Christ!

Please someone just shut that f***ing dog up.

Maybe he's pissed too?

EMI told him he's gonna get

his dog food tomorrow.

We should have something

tomorrow, tomorrow, etc.

It's like the guy in the movie, you know.

Tooooomorrrrrrow. It's ridiculous.

EMI.

Holly sh*t.

EMI caved.

"I think we are done, capital D.O.N.E.

Press release to be mutually approved

but that can happened quickly after signing,

meanwhile could you get

an approved quote from Jared

and we will send you a draft.

Thanks to all, now the real work starts."

Now we have to decide.

So Shannon, Tomo and I

got together and debated,

discussed and made a decision.

EMI came to us and offered us

the deal we were fighting for.

So, we accepted.

Is it really Friday the thirteen?

It is pretty brave, bold and stupid of them

to actually make a deal with a band,

even if it's us,

without having heard the record.

But at the same time, they knew

there's not a chance in a f***ing hell

I was gonna play them

a single second of this record.

You have to do what's best

for the music at this point.

I think what's best

for the music is resigning with EMI

and putting a record out.

Your goal on this album

is to have many people as possible buy that.

You have to consider your career.

It's all about your career.

So, what do you think we should do?

I think you should sign this thing,

get your record out there

and get back to your career away from courts.

What do you think we should do?

You should absolutely sign this deal right now

and then go back to the studio

and keep working.

Yeah.

It's amazing that at the same time

we're trying making a deal,

the world is falling apart.

Look, you've got seven or eight years

of the record business

just going straight to the dumper

and then, six great months ago,

the rest of the world went

with the record business.

Everything is in the dumper now.

So, why don' I feel like

we should be celebrating?

Because it's the record business,

there's really nothing to celebrate

about the record business,

because it's a dying business.

And especially on an international level

where you guys,

you're gonna sell 70% of your records

cause more records still sell overseas.

You know,

you gotta have one of these, guys.

And this is the one you get

without a lawsuit.

Jared, you were very idealistic and

you wanted to write

the wrongs of the record business

and you're not gonna have

your chance to see it before

it shines a light on the corruption

of the music business

or take it down,

but it's going down anyway.

That's the problem.

It's hard to stop fighting sometimes.

(Much tougher)

How do you stop fighting?

How can you do that?

Because they're all fired.

This, by the way, is one contract.

Take a deep breath, man.

The deal that we made was a very favorable one

and a much better deal

that Thirty Second to Mars had.

The goal of the litigation is to accomplish

whatever goal you got the litigation for.

I don't think that the court room

is a really good place for artists to be.

I think they're better off in the studios.

The real battle is the clock starts.

You got to finish the record.

Mmmm... Yeah.

Try to get this show on the road.

And no excuses.

Have you finished with this song yet?

So, the new contract with EMI says

that we have three weeks left to finish.

The clock is ticking.

Is there any kind of methodology

that you know about

to increase the productivity

of the remaining days we have here?

So, Guy Hands stepped down today.

Oh, did he?!

That definitely means there's some sh*t shifting

and changing around.

Breaking news, Citigroup taking ownership

of one of the world's leading music companies.

Guys Hands is from Terra Firma, acquired EMI

with a lot of debt and the numbers

never made a lot of sense and so?

here we are with Citigroup taking control of EMI.

The decline and demolishment of EMI

is a sad 21st century story of failure.

He was running a whole company

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