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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#239: Harrison Remler

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

Music

4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome COO of Visionary Music Group, Harrison Remler to sit down with us at our new apartment on the Upper West Side! Part of Logic's management team for the past seven years and a 2018 recipient of the Forbes 30 Under 30 honor, Harrison discusses his upbringing on the north shore of Long Island, his dedication to high school baseball, his father's dreams of him becoming a big league relief pitcher, meeting Mariano Rivera at a restaurant in Panama, and why the flame of top-tier athletics burned out at his Division III school, Vassar College. Harry, well-aware of the power of social media and the music blogs, used both to start a college career as a concert promoter, getting his artists respectable pay days whether for high school proms or selling out NYC's Canal Room. At the time, he looked up to independent managers like Benji Grinberg and Will Dzombak, and when he garnered the interest of Logic's manager, Chris Zarou, he immediately offered to intern in exchange for the chance to learn the ins and outs of the music business. Harry details moving around the United States at age 19 as Logic's tour manager, the big responsibilities, the ridiculous quandaries and the large amounts of money that fell on his shoulders - none of it going into his own pockets - but knowing that he was an early part of something significant, putting together Logic's first appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and the life-changing moment where he had to decide between traveling to a Spring Break tourney with his baseball team, or joining Logic on his first European tour. We get into Logic's signing to Def Jam, working on Jon Bellion's career, learning how to push and poke and encourage a major music label while operating out of a basement in Long Island, and the most gratifying moment of his career, Logic's VMA performance which brought together suicide survivors and spread awareness. All that, plus news about Visionary's new situation with Sony Music, stories about Method Man and Redman, Tayyib Ali, AER, DJ Vinny Bags, the Panama Canal, hunting Nazis and much more!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Jeff.

0:00.5

Hey, Eric.

0:01.4

How are you?

0:01.7

I'm pretty good.

0:02.4

How are you?

0:03.0

Doing well, thank you.

0:22.1

I'm exhausted, though. Got to be very honest. Moving is not an easy sport. No. Nor, by the way, is it a quick sport when you are playing it yourself. It's a... This is an extended metaphor. Yeah. We live five blocks from our old place. And Jeff and I are like, well, you know what?

0:23.4

We'll just move everything ourselves.

0:20.8

And, well, you know what?

0:22.2

We'll just move everything ourselves.

0:24.1

And it's been a lot.

0:27.0

Yeah.

0:27.3

It's been a lot, but we are 99% moved in.

0:31.1

Still got some things to hang on the wall.

0:33.0

Still got some things to sort of finish.

0:36.1

But we're in good shit. Yeah, before we even go into yeah before we even go into like

0:39.2

anything else i do want to among other things that we are that we're hanging up yeah i want to talk

0:45.9

about one of the things that you discovered from your calendars well okay so when you move after being in one spot for over a decade,

0:59.0

you discover a lot of things you forgot about. There's pictures, there's like old text forms,

1:06.1

or there's lots of calendars that you used to keep from many years ago.

1:12.4

And, you know, amongst all these boxes, I do have all of these calendars,

1:18.1

you know, week-by-week calendars that I wrote down what I was doing.

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