Arista Records
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Nov 4, 2026
Peter LubinGUEST
well, we're looking for a bass player, you wanna audition? And I said, well, sure, I wanna audition.
Peter LubinGUEST
And he said, all right, well then I'll meet you up at Bob Fiden's office at Arista Records on Wednesday, two o'clock.
Peter LubinGUEST
And I thought, well, Bob Fiden was the head of A&R at Arista.
Peter LubinGUEST
I said, really, in Bob Fiden's office? Should I bring an instrument? No, no, that ain't necessary.
Ritch EsraHOST
Yeah, you're not like, somewhere somebody will do it.
Ritch EsraHOST
And as you were speaking about that, it reminded me, I used to work for Arista Records for Clive Davis, and he was asked that question about great talent before.
Ritch EsraHOST
And I'll never forget his answer because he responded in the way that you did.
Ritch EsraHOST
He said, look, if all it took was, you know, if Whitney Houston just had a great voice and nothing else, he said, we could sign every great voice in the world and they would all be stars.
RyanHOST
Absolutely.
RyanHOST
Number 12, Patti Smith, Horses, 1975, Arista.
RyanHOST
I am not surprised at all that there is a Patti Smith record on the Rolling Stone Top 100.
RyanHOST
And I'm not going to debate whether this is groundbreaking or influential.
Danny YauHOST
Of the success of the General Electric, America became interested.
Danny YauHOST
In particular, they secured American management and an American record deal with Arista Records, a major label that was part of the BMG family.
Danny YauHOST
And then 9-11 happened.
Danny YauHOST
The story goes that either management or their producer or the label didn't think the name would work in an America that was suddenly anti-Muslim.
ChrisHOST
By 1981, they had swelled into an active, crowded six-piece line-up.
ChrisHOST
This version recorded their debut studio album, a product of participation, released through Arista Records.
ChrisHOST
It was experimental, rhythm heavy and distinctly non-commercial.
ChrisHOST
Immediately after it dropped, saxophone player Jane Shorter left the group.
DJ Butter RockHOST
And don't forget what I said yesterday.
DJ Butter RockHOST
I ain't going to mess up the vibe tonight because we were doing it for Wendy and Arista Records and Columbia Records, so y'all know what I said.
DJ Butter RockHOST
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DJ Butter RockHOST
But they were trying to make Wendy uppity like that.
DJ Butter RockHOST
But see, Claude Davis wanted some pussy.
DJ Butter RockHOST
R.R.P. to the music legend mobile, Claude Davis, Arista Records.
DJ Butter RockHOST
I don't have no intel that Claude Davis fucked Wendy.
Justin HunteHOST
we don't put it on screen like this
Stat QuoHOST
before you play that i want to say this so by mark pitts was the first guy to have me um myth hits worked for mark pitts for a company called by storm entertainment mark pitts was the first guy to fly me to new york he was had his label underneath arista records he flew me out to new york to meet with uh la reed and me and my mom um and I performed on the desk of L.A. Reid, and Jermaine Dupri was there, and Mark Pitts and Jermaine Dupri got into it because Mark Pitts wanted to do the deal, and Jermaine Dupri was like, you can't sign nobody from my city without me being involved.
Stat QuoHOST
Needless to say, I didn't do the deal at Arista through Mark Pitts, but Mark Pitts is a good guy, and he's definitely somebody that would be amazing for us to put on the couch.
Stat QuoHOST
He used to manage Biggie.
Stat QuoHOST
He played a very instrumental role in J. Cole's career.
Jonny CraggGUEST
be 88, 89, yeah.
Jonny CraggGUEST
And we got a deal with Arista Records, and we released a record on Arista called Cresta.
Jonny CraggGUEST
In fact... uh they just re-released uh pink panther one of our singles from that record it came out to itunes and spotify about two weeks ago um so uh that's a good thing about being old is they keep re-releasing all your records um yeah so yeah so that brought me back to leeds and then that was six seven years of my life and then when that band broke up i moved to new york
JoshHOST
Yeah.
Brad RobertsGUEST
Yes.
Brad RobertsGUEST
My manager, Jeff Rogers, had a good friend in one of the A&R people over at Arista Records called Ken Friedman, and he signed the band.
Brad RobertsGUEST
Clive Davis didn't get very far with our first record.
Brad RobertsGUEST
superman song he just couldn't get it played as much as he wanted to get it played but when our second record came out the landscape of the music industry had changed a little bit nirvana had broken and all of a sudden it was mainstream to do things that weren't in the mainstream And it opened doors for us.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
Years passed.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
Davis was pushed out of Columbia and started a label of his own, called Arista.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
By the time the dead came looking, Arista was only three years old and best known for Barry Manilow, though it also had Lou Reed and Patti Smith.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
The dead came looking because their own experiment had run aground.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
They had started an independent record company at what Garcia called the worst possible time in the middle of vinyl shortages and a slump.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
But the account never names the song, and the band simply let the suggestion pass.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
and here's the argument that has never once been settled.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
Did the dead choose Arista, or did Arista simply happen to be the open door? The promoter John Schur, who helped negotiate the deal, said Arista was their first choice, and that if there was anybody in the industry they could work with, it was Clive.
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