But....I'm old!!!

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My new trio lineup has had...what??? Three practices??? Something like that. Basssist has a music major and played in one of the military bands and has been in DIY/punkish bands as well. I am what you get when choir, school band, self taught guitarist and then odd and nasty stuff kept me from being able to play in bands as a youngling. The new drummer responded to our Dallas area Find Musicians ad. He has played A LOT and in different genres.

So there we are, different backgrounds, drummer is HEAVY HEAVY to a degree that I am not........and.......it works. The songs have new and different energy, it's all much more aggressive sounding and the drummer is able to follow along with my songs even when he has had very little study of the songs.

Sounds great right????

But, at the same time as he started playing with us one of his old bands came looking for him and he is in that band too. That band played a lot in the past and I think they are playing a lot of the same songs that they used to do. They have a lot of gigs lined up, therefore....

Debut of our band Chronically Miffed has been pushed back to early September. It's not the end of the world but I would prefer to be going earlier than that.

Oh well. We sound good and by September we ought to blow the roof off of some venues.
 
Also hoping to put together a nice EP or even Album length.

Question: Does this even make any sense now??? If we start releasing stuff it will be one song at a time and every couple of weeks. I love releasing half a dozen songs but it appears that no matter how many songs you put out at the same time, the 1st song gets 500 plays, the 2nd, 400, the 3rd 300 and so on. Consumers just don't sit for half an hour of music. By timing individual releases, I am pretty sure one might get more plays.

So the two terms are actually more like quantities. EP seems to be around 6 to 8 songs, Album maybe a dozen songs. The EP and Album experience is gone but we still use those terms, just in a different way.
 
Sam The Lion said:
Consumers no longer consume.
Releases are promotional. Don't expect revenue from them.
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I would take it one step further and say be prepared with the expectation and ability to pay the full release bill + whatever is/was involved in producing it.
 
Sapient said:
I would take it one step further and say be prepared with the expectation and ability to pay the full release bill + whatever is/was involved in producing it.
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On the DIY end of things, merch is about the only thing that puts dollars in your hairy paws. My Son and others I know sometimes manage to make some actual cash as sidemen but that's for the players that can really play.
 
Dado said:
On the DIY end of things, merch is about the only thing that puts dollars in your hairy paws. My Son and others I know sometimes manage to make some actual cash as sidemen but that's for the players that can really play.
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Maybe try 12" action figures? Lol.

I don't know ..whatever works. Seems hard to sell when a band is not established yet and I thought you guys were new. I guess I just wouldn't invest real deep, but if you get into it then you might want to do some shirts or other cheaper investment items.

I've never bought merchandise at a gig unless it was a major act at an arena or something. Seems to me to be a real hard sell otherwise.
 
Sapient said:
Maybe try 12" action figures? Lol.

I don't know ..whatever works. Seems hard to sell when a band is not established yet and I thought you guys were new. I guess I just wouldn't invest real deep, but if you get into it then you might want to do some shirts or other cheaper investment items.

I've never bought merchandise at a gig unless it was a major act at an arena or something. Seems to me to be a real hard sell otherwise.
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I think it would be a matter of whether your location has a "scene" that follows some similar genre stuff. I lucked out and found that there is a "punk scene" in the giant metro. So, there are actually people that know all the bands, the bands know each other and shockingly, will buy a shirt, a patch, one guy sells tiny paintings of cats. :lol: Several are artists as well as musicians. It's not loads of money, but it's a thing.
 
I'm sure you know this technique, here is what I do, I usually have a room mic too:


It's getting way up there, the number of people that thought I was nuts when I set up the mics, but were happy with the capture. To me, this method makes a drum kit sound like one big instrument rather than a collection of instruments. Your mileage may vary.
 
Dado said:
My new trio lineup has had...what??? Three practices??? Something like that. Basssist has a music major and played in one of the military bands and has been in DIY/punkish bands as well. I am what you get when choir, school band, self taught guitarist and then odd and nasty stuff kept me from being able to play in bands as a youngling. The new drummer responded to our Dallas area Find Musicians ad. He has played A LOT and in different genres.

So there we are, different backgrounds, drummer is HEAVY HEAVY to a degree that I am not........and.......it works. The songs have new and different energy, it's all much more aggressive sounding and the drummer is able to follow along with my songs even when he has had very little study of the songs.

Sounds great right????

But, at the same time as he started playing with us one of his old bands came looking for him and he is in that band too. That band played a lot in the past and I think they are playing a lot of the same songs that they used to do. They have a lot of gigs lined up, therefore....

Debut of our band Chronically Miffed has been pushed back to early September. It's not the end of the world but I would prefer to be going earlier than that.

Oh well. We sound good and by September we ought to blow the roof off of some venues.
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Sounds great , but you said you were old.
How old , just wondering because I think my son is old. Lol
 
Internet releases are promotional.

You'd be better off selling physical product at gigs.

Once a release hits the internet...it's basically free.
 
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