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Bob
Pfeifer / Biography
from Pfeifer's webiste ...
Bob Pfeifer has been in "the industry" for nearly three decades. And in an early attempt to understand what it's like to be a struggling musician and not eat, he was the singer/guitarist/songwriter for the new wave/punk group Human Switchboard. Now the band was a darling of the critics (which means they sold a total of 14 albums) and Pfeifer endured the small clubs, the dirty bathrooms and the trips from Hoboken to hometown Cleveland.
Then Epic/Sony Music A&R's division recruited him and he left the glamorous rock star life behind. Though he was still at the peon level, he signed legendary rocker and 3-handicapper Alice Cooper to a "comeback" album that became the biggest selling album of his career, and was instrumental in the "flannel shirt" movement with the launch of seminal Seattle band Screaming Trees. Oh yeah, there's also the influential Singles soundtrack, work with Jazz legend Ornette Coleman, a label with Ice-T, Joe Satriani and Sepultura, just to name drop a few more. As a result of these successes and the fact that he was one of the few people in the music business who could spell, he was quickly propelled to Senior Vice President of A&R.
In the early 1990s, Pfeifer became president of Disney's Hollywood Records and oversaw some of the most profitable and successful years in the label's history. Stuff like the award-winning soundtracks for Sister Act, The Crow, The Lion King (featuring Elton John's "Circle of Life"), Pocahontas, and the worldwide #1 hit "All For One" by Adams/Sting/Stewart. He also knows Michael Eisner who told Bob that he "had to stop referring to himself (Bob) as crazy because he had become so successful, he could now be considered 'eccentric.'" Ha ha, way to go Michael Eisner.
from Pfeifer's webiste ...
Bob Pfeifer has been in "the industry" for nearly three decades. And in an early attempt to understand what it's like to be a struggling musician and not eat, he was the singer/guitarist/songwriter for the new wave/punk group Human Switchboard. Now the band was a darling of the critics (which means they sold a total of 14 albums) and Pfeifer endured the small clubs, the dirty bathrooms and the trips from Hoboken to hometown Cleveland.
Then Epic/Sony Music A&R's division recruited him and he left the glamorous rock star life behind. Though he was still at the peon level, he signed legendary rocker and 3-handicapper Alice Cooper to a "comeback" album that became the biggest selling album of his career, and was instrumental in the "flannel shirt" movement with the launch of seminal Seattle band Screaming Trees. Oh yeah, there's also the influential Singles soundtrack, work with Jazz legend Ornette Coleman, a label with Ice-T, Joe Satriani and Sepultura, just to name drop a few more. As a result of these successes and the fact that he was one of the few people in the music business who could spell, he was quickly propelled to Senior Vice President of A&R.
In the early 1990s, Pfeifer became president of Disney's Hollywood Records and oversaw some of the most profitable and successful years in the label's history. Stuff like the award-winning soundtracks for Sister Act, The Crow, The Lion King (featuring Elton John's "Circle of Life"), Pocahontas, and the worldwide #1 hit "All For One" by Adams/Sting/Stewart. He also knows Michael Eisner who told Bob that he "had to stop referring to himself (Bob) as crazy because he had become so successful, he could now be considered 'eccentric.'" Ha ha, way to go Michael Eisner.