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Re: After an album, what?



>Great stuff, but I totally
> missed the fact that it was released, myself.  What kind of promotion did
it
> get?  Just Pete's tour?

I was over at CNN at the time and I remember A LOT of promotion for PsychoD.
There was a ton of press releases, interviews with Pete, guitar giveaways,
etc. My take was always:
1) The cover and art design of the CD. It looked horrible and it was hard to
read what was on it. The design and layout of that CD could be used in a
course of "how not to design a CD."
2) The English Boy video with this middle age bald guy puttering around
intercut with shots of children. Not the kind of thing to grab a typical
music video viewer. Compare it with the great "Rough Boys" video. Then
there's the title "English Boy" that does nothing for most Americans.
"Obviously some song intended for the British..."
3) Doesn't fit in with any known U.S. radio format.

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