Gregg Terrence
President
email: gregg [at] indiepool.com
twitter: @greggterrence
tel: 416-424-4666
I have spent my entire adult life working with independent musicians. First, as a lead singer of various indie rock bands in Ottawa, as a producer and songwriter. In my early twenties, I learned how to manage our band and spent a lot of time booking gigs, running the fan club, applying for grants, shopping for deals, etc… This is when I realized that I may in fact be better at working for bands then being in them.
At 23, I packed up my guitar and my $600 (it sounds cliché but it’s true) and drove my beater car to Vancouver. I spent those years in poverty, on welfare, often hungry, surrounded by despair in a sketchy rooming house on the east side, and without my roots. It was the best thing I ever could have done. I rebuilt. I wrote and recorded the greatest songs of my life. I learned to appreciate life’s true meaning and dedicated myself to helping others. It was during those long drives alone between Ottawa and Vancouver that I fell in love with Canada (and Terry Fox!).
In 1996, I co-founded Indie Pool in my Vancouver apartment when a miracle $5,000 credit card came in the mail. As president, I helped build the company from the ground up, working only for Canadian unsigned artists, without a single corporate client. Indie Pool’s mission is to pool the resources of Canadian indie artists to create greater access and to lower prices through buying power. Indie Pool has worked for over 60,000 Canadian bands, administers 200,000 songs on iTunes and currently has about 15,000 active relationships with Canadian artists.
I am married with 3 kids and live downtown Toronto. Life is definitely nutty right now, but I could not be happier or luckier to be alive, healthy, living in Canada, with a fun job and great family. Knocking on wood now…
Be in touch anytime Gregg@indiepool.com.
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My favorite albums through the years
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Rush – Exit Stage Left
Chris de Burg – Spanish Train
Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb – Guilty
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut & The Wall
Led Zeppelin – Everything
Metallica – …and Justice For All
Neil Young – Live Rust
Guns ‘n Roses – Appetite For Destruction
AC/DC – Back in Black
Roger Waters – Amused To Death
Nirvana – Nevermind
The Pixies – Trompe Le Monde
Radiohead – The Bends & In Rainbows
Pearl Jam – Ten
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
Pantera – Vulgar Display Of Power
Eminem – The Eminem Show
Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Blood Sex Sugar Magik
Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
Sinead O’Connor – I Do Not Want What I Do Not Have
Faith No More – Angel Dust
U2 – Achtung Baby
Richard Desjardins – Tu M’aime Tu
The National, The Boxer
Ray LaMontagne, Till The Sun Turns Black
Band of Horses, Cease To Begin
The White Stripes – First 4 records
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up
Isbells – Isbells
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Die Antwoord – Ten$ion
Childish Gambino – Camp
Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
Kanye West – Yeezus
Villas – Medicine
(I find myself introducing these records to my kids and having less time to be captivated by new ones. Help!)
