![]() Philip the Evangelist must be carefully distinguished from Philip the Apostle. You don’t have to end up signing your life away to some fool who’s just there kind of grabbing hold of the coattails.Men of the Bible Some Lesser-Known - George MilliganBY REV. Once you know that, you just bring in specific people for specialist jobs. I think if you have even just a modicum of intelligence, you’re going to know what it is you are and where you want to go. ![]() I don’t quite know what managers are supposed to do, even. What extra thing is this manager supposed to do for you? I suppose in the old days, it was “Get you breaks!” (laughs). And I started to realize that if you’re bright, you kind of know your worth, and if you’re creative, you know what you want to do and where you want to go in that way. So if I needed a certain publishing thing done, I’d bring in a person who specialized in that area, and they would, on a one-job basis, work for me and we’d reach the agreed fee. It was at John’s instigation that I really did without managers, and started getting people in to do specific jobs for me, rather than signing myself away to one guy forever and have him take a piece of everything that I earn-usually quite a large piece-and have him really not do very much. That there’s no such thing as good management in rock ’n’ roll and you should try to do without it. ![]() And John was the guy who opened me up to the idea that all management is crap. He was telling me, “You’re being shafted by your present manager” (laughs). We’d been talking about management, and it kind of came out of that.
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