Members Dolf Posted June 15, 2011 Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 Well my {censored}ing browser crashed in the middle of a giant ass response That never happens. Anyway. WHAT I WAS SAYING BEFORE BEING SO RUDELY INTERRUPTED BY TECHNOLOGY WAS In terms of promotion, a silver tongue is going to get you a lot further than just throwing promo materials out. Granted, those are important and necessary, but you might want to start putting feelers out to your friends and friends of friends. I'd be willing to bet you know a lot more people than you'd think that might be able to get your information out there where people can see it. Also I believe 1,000 cds from oasis will run you around $1,300 whereas 100 will run you around $400 (shipped and all). There are positives and negatives to both ordering too little and too much. One thing you want to remember though is you can always reorder. Most people are going to want to order it online and digital distribution is cheap http://www.tunecore.com/ You don't want to be sitting on hundreds of cds for a couple years, especially if you want to start putting out NEW material I know you've done bands before but if I'm correct this one is kind of a "starting fresh" thing, right? If nobody knows what to expect, you have the perfect opportunity to completely blow them out of the water. The tunes and the playing are obviously solid. I'd take time to think about what you can do with the SHOW to have people leave the venue thinking "That was something that I need to talk about". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shane159 Posted June 15, 2011 Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 I like it allot. Dude if my old radio rock band can sell o ton of cd's I am fairly sure you could sell 700. We sold around 600 at our CD release party but that was in 05 I might add. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Whirlwind Posted June 15, 2011 Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 DO IT!!! Playing the House of Blues in Chicago and Continental Arena are two things I will never forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted June 15, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 Well my {censored}ing browser crashed in the middle of a giant ass response That never happens. Anyway. WHAT I WAS SAYING BEFORE BEING SO RUDELY INTERRUPTED BY TECHNOLOGY WAS In terms of promotion, a silver tongue is going to get you a lot further than just throwing promo materials out. Granted, those are important and necessary, but you might want to start putting feelers out to your friends and friends of friends. I'd be willing to bet you know a lot more people than you'd think that might be able to get your information out there where people can see it. Also I believe 1,000 cds from oasis will run you around $1,300 whereas 100 will run you around $400 (shipped and all). There are positives and negatives to both ordering too little and too much. One thing you want to remember though is you can always reorder. Most people are going to want to order it online and digital distribution is cheap http://www.tunecore.com/ You don't want to be sitting on hundreds of cds for a couple years, especially if you want to start putting out NEW material I know you've done bands before but if I'm correct this one is kind of a "starting fresh" thing, right? If nobody knows what to expect, you have the perfect opportunity to completely blow them out of the water. The tunes and the playing are obviously solid. I'd take time to think about what you can do with the SHOW to have people leave the venue thinking "That was something that I need to talk about". I have some of that shmoozing stuff in place, but not enough yet. That is exactly the type of thing I am willing to spend money on. Show wise...I know I can't do enough shows to make it a good way (payoff wise) to put the band out there. I may squeeze out a month tour in the larger cities. But those shows will have to count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted June 16, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 People hardly buy music at all anymore.I'll be honest and also assume that no I don't think you'd be able to sell 700 cds.On the other hand I DO think you should still go for it and try, regret what you did not what you didn't I always say. That is what I am worried about. People only buy stuff these days that they absolutely love. I've probably only bought 5 CD's in 16 months. Peeps seem to dig it, but will it tip people over the edge to buy it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dolf Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 That is what I am worried about. People only buy stuff these days that they absolutely love. I've probably only bought 5 CD's in 16 months.Peeps seem to dig it, but will it tip people over the edge to buy it? Playing in their town, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members timmyfirst Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 If you want a novelty for your live act then you could do what a UK band did recently. Every date of their tour they set up in the middle of the crowd, sound-guys worst nightmare i know but literally people went nuts for it, they arent even the best band in the scene either but it made their shows so much more intense. Theyve now got record companies all over them and sold out shows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted June 16, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 If you want a novelty for your live act then you could do what a UK band did recently. Every date of their tour they set up in the middle of the crowd, sound-guys worst nightmare i know but literally people went nuts for it, they arent even the best band in the scene either but it made their shows so much more intense. Theyve now got record companies all over them and sold out shows! I'll get done for murder if a fan bumps my LP and pukes on my pedal board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted June 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 YES!!! http://www.rockmymonkey.com/news/?currentPage=3 On the same page as Unearth and Black Dhalia Murder, my bands vid was mentioned. I sent out 5 emails to some music places. BBC in the UK, they got back to me and asked for a censored mp3 for the radio. So I got played on Radio 1 as well (early hours). Sweet! I plan on sending out 1000's of these things when the album is done. So for the handful I sent to cover us, well that is good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdgeOfDarkness Posted June 17, 2011 Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 Wait, your dad was Mike Gibbins ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted June 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 Wait, your dad was Mike Gibbins ? {censored} yeah he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdgeOfDarkness Posted June 17, 2011 Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 {censored} yeah he was. awesome ! love some badfinger. your brother looks alot like him . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um4pnvJr07A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted June 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 Thats not my dad. Lol. He was a replacement for a month. This is my dad on top of the pops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7NLdMvttY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted June 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 Hey UK people, the BBC in wales say they played Tock and Badfinger acording to this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011s692#clips But the clip: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hk2f2 Wont let me play it as I am in the USA and it is a UK thing...Can you UK peeps do me a solid and skim through it until Badfinger and Tock are mentioned and record it via you soundcard for me? I would like to hear my first time on the BBC.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EdgeOfDarkness Posted June 17, 2011 Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 I was just posting a song I liked from a quick youtube search...lol my comment about your bro stands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted June 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 I was just posting a song I liked from a quick youtube search...lolmy comment about your bro stands. Yeah he does look like him a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ke2 Posted June 17, 2011 Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 The music is certainly good enough. The biggest challenge is (and I'm sure you're aware of it:)) that there are lots of fish in the pond. But for musical quality, hell yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thefyn Posted June 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 The music is certainly good enough. The biggest challenge is (and I'm sure you're aware of it:)) that there are lots of fish in the pond. But for musical quality, hell yes. Thanks man. My plan is to market more that the other fish when the album is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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