We’ve talked about looping in the past, but now there seems to be a $4 alternative to those expensive peddles. This videos is in French, but still impressive. Music is universal. Its amazing the way he turns things on and off. This is called Easy Looper
If I make a mistake, I want it to be with every fiber of my being. I always want to give my all. I just found out about a band called “Rock Sugar.” This is one of the most original ideas I’ve come across in a while They combine Rock Metal Anthems (Enter Sandman, We Will Rock You, Welcome to the Jungle) with pop songs like Jessie’s Girl, Don’t Stop Believing, Voices Carry) etc. So you get songs like “Don’t Stop the Sandman (Journey and Metallica)
The cool thing I respect is:
1. These guys have chops.
2. They realized this is different, and they came up with an elaborate back story about a band that has been stranded on a island has just got back (so they are kind of stuck in 1989).
3. They took time to make it look pretty, and make a good first impression.
I challenge you to listen to this without smiling. It’s funny, but yet rocks. I found myself wanting to sing along.
If I had one “oops” their stuff is not available at amazon.com (only available from their website via paypal). The bottom line, this is very well thought out, planned, and they are giving it their all.
This week my step son built a giant snow fort – in the middle of the driveway blocking me from getting into my garage. Great job – bad planning. This video is from OK Go (the people who did the treadmill video a while ago) and they are back with a “I can’t stop watching it video.” One can only imagine the time, patience, and planning that went into this video.
I got sucked into an informercial the other other for the yudu screen printing system.
It seems way cool (as all products do on and informercial) and I was really waiting and waiting to find out how much does the yudu cost?
Well I’m still wating. I sent an email to the comany (I haven’t heard anything yet), but as this advertisement shows you can use it for a month for $33 bucks. This is cool as you can create a lot of shirts ina month. My question is does anybody know how much this thing is to keep?
Obviously more and more people are expecting music to be free or $.99 a song, but nobody expects t-shirts, bags, hats, etc to be free. As a podcaster I would like to make some t-shirts for people who send in info to the podcast, or contests, etc.
If you know someone who actually has this system, please let me know.
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Today we interview Bobby Owsinski who has authored many books on the Music Business. He has a great blog that he updates on a daily basis. Today we are talking to him about Music 3.0 A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age Here are some topics covered in the book:
More Books From Bobby
You can find Bobby’s book and blogs at www.bobbyowsinski.com Titles of his books include:
“How to Make Your Band Sound Great.” (covered in last week’s podcast)
The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook
The Recording Engineer’s Handbook
The Mastering Engineer’s Handbook
The Studio Musician’s Handbook
Music 3.0: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age
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Today we interview Bobby Owsinski who has authored many books on the Music Business. He has a great blog that he updates on a daily basis. Check out 7 tips for a better rehearsal. Today we are talking to him about “How to Make Your Band Sound Great.” Here are some topics covered in the book:
Tales From The Road
Bobby explains why mixing gun powder and flash power is NOT a good idea
More Books From Bobby
You can find Bobb’y book and blogs at www.bobbyowsinski.com Titles of his books include:
The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook
The Recording Engineer’s Handbook
The Mastering Engineer’s Handbook
The Studio Musician’s Handbook
Music 3.0: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age (which will be featured next week on the Podcast).
I originally heard about this on hypebot.com
Disagreements between artist and labels have been happening since the invention of the recorded disc. Way back in 1956, Buddy Holly recorded several songs in Nashville including “That’ll Be The Day”. But but producer Owen Bradley reportedly hated rock n’ roll, and the results were less than exciting.
Later Holly re-recorded “That’ll Be The Day” at a different studio with his own arrangement. But…
according to his contract with Decca, he couldn’t release it, because they owned all rights to his music and wanted to recoup their investment somehow.
Buddy called Decca to plead with them, and secretly taped his conversation. They refused to give him the rights and eventually he circumvented the process by releasing the song under another name (The Crickets) on a subsidiary of Decca. But along the way Holly went through the hell that too many artists have gone through who participated in the old label system.
They won’t let him use the recordings. They won’t let him pay for the recordins. They won’t release the songs.
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Today I found a free ebook “How to Become Popular on YouTube without any Talent. I’m about half way done with this book and so far its full of good practical hands on knowledge. You can check out it here
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I just found out about a new FREE resource for musicians called Gig Donkey. Here are some of the features:
I’ve got a video at the bottom of the post. If you try it out come back and let us know what you think of it?
Dave’s Birthday Kindle
Dave turns 45 this month and the old man’s eye sight isn’t what it used to be. Chip in at www.musicianscooler.com/birthday and help him get a kindle (so he can read music business books and share the information right here). Rumor has it there are surprises for those who donate..
Next week I’m turning 45 (2/8/2010). I still feel I’m young at heart, and I want to be that way until I’m too old to change. The bad news is my eyes are not being so kind. I love to read, and a lot of the material for this show comes from books, etc. So this birthday I really want a Kindle, they are kind of pricy, but I heard where the Rock and Roll Geek was sent to England by his audience, so it would be cool if we could get me something I could read. If you can help at all, it would be greatly appreciated.
