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Not Lame Recordings - power pop and melodic rock record label, music and CDs
Description
"Why not?!" It began that simply. After working in the music industry in various capacities for many years and leaving Los Angeles to move to Colorado, I, Bruce Brodeen, was going up a chairlift on an early-season 'powder day' pondering my future--in gorgeous Aspen, Colorado (little known fact: my neighbor was Hunter S. Thompson but that's another story, literary-fans). My wife and I had just moved there after selling our house for a large loss in the recession of those times. Arrived with newfound debt, no jobs and our precious first-born (dog, Tobi). We just showed up--- as Southern California has a way of turning ones' life inside out. So it was a time to re-access and re-prioritize what was truly important in life. An early mid-life crisis in my early 30's my family called it. I decided that day in November 1994 to start up a record label devoted to 'power pop' and to do something for myself that I had always wanted to do. By the time I arrived to the top of the lift, the name was decided and 'the plan' conceived. So, I took a few low-interest credits cards and some very modest savings (and the confused blessing of my wife, Ruth, thankfully!) and off I went.
Who was the first band to submit their material to me? The Rooks. "This is easy." Well, actually 'no'. I DID know better than that, of course, being a somewhat hardened industry veteran but let's just say God shined a bit of grace into my life finding a way for me to hear Michael Mazzarella's unique genius right out of the gates. This sort of thing just does not happen on its own.
In early 1995 and shortly after putting a web site up in those bygone'colonial' days of the Internet, it became clear that there was a huge spate of talent inside this genre of 'power pop' and that these independent bands and a few labels that were releasing CDs had no distribution whatsoever. "Not Lame should sell this great stuff," I thought. Thus, a mail order company was birthed, as an afterthought and logical response to getting the music heard.
