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Woodstock Music Festival: Forty Years After: Three Days of Peace and Music That Changed... - 0 views

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    Rolling Stone magazine credits woodstock for pulling off the ultimate magic act of the 1960's; turnign rain-soaked chaos into the greatest music festival ever! Paula Perry has just posted a little history gem for all you rockers out there. 40 Years of Woodstock in retrospect.
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Bob Baker's Indie Music Promotion Blog: The Time Factor: Are You Giving Yourself Enough? - 0 views

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    Malcolm Gladwell ,author of the book Outliers, is pretty adamant about his 10,000 hour rule. The rule states that in order to master any craft 10,000 + hours of practice must be accumulated. And getting in that many hours of practice can take 10 years or more. Basically, you gotta put in your work. The music promotion blog has a piece on Steve Martin that really attests to the decade journey that one must take to reach celebrity over night. By the time Steve was propelled into great public awareness he was a well oiled machine, ready to deliver the goods. Television (tell a lie to your vision, particularly shows like american idol and other media sources are very good at trivializing the years of work that some of our greatest icons put in to achieve icon status. Record Labels have even been fooled forgoing development for the young inexperienced (We've seen how well that works). Thats actually the equivalent of getting hired for an entry position and then getting promoted to CEO of the company a few weeks later, needless to say, that company's going to fail. I guess the point of this is if you want to increase your chances of success, not being signed but actually be icon status (being remembered for the many things you've done, not just the first thing), then you have to sleep in that car, perform in front of an audience of empty chairs, bounce from label to label because when god finally taps you on the shoulder and says its go time your going to outshine all of the others not even half way through their 10,000 hour mark. Put in the time and you will be rewarded.
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The 18 Greatest Bargains in High-End Audio (TAS 197) | AVguide - 0 views

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    Increase Your High End with Low End Dollars. As the number of home studio's drastically increase, the hunt for the best amps , turntables, speakers and cables are on. Everyone musician would with out a doubt welcome the highest end equipment into their studio with open loving arms, but the price is usually the main deterrent. The audio/video guide is currently showcasing what they believe to be the 18 best bargains for high end home studio equipment selling at bargain prices. So if you need that new speaker cable or power amplifier, i suggest you take a peep at this, before you wind up buying the low end no name module for the same price. Ouchy.
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How To Survive The New Music Industry « eleetmusic - Direction in music, ma... - 0 views

  • The older industry experts insisted that nothing much had changed. They encouraged artists to network with other bands to find gigs, sell CD’s out of thier trunks or, “do what ever it takes to generate a buzz”. You can’t get more vague than that.
  • The progressives represented new media applications, widgets and digital services that promised to help artists develop direct to fan relationships. They somehow forgot to mention that you would be required to pay for their service or use their branded widgets in order to create, market, promote, and distribute YOUR music to the world.
  • In the good old days, when there weren’t any computers programs, some of the greatest artists succeeded by telling their story in a unique way.
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  • Emmanual Jal learned the hard way what we as musicians take for granted. He learned how to survive and adapt in the toughest conditions.
  • survival divided by adaptation equals success.
  • ll of the CD’s, downloads, T-Shirts, widgets and direct to fan relationships will not work unless you adapt them to your situation.
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    Loiterers Should Be Arrested. The CMJ Music Marathon ended last week but the lessons learned have just begun. Kevin English, blogger at eleetmusic.com took some time to talk about the lessons that he took away with him from the many panelists. His conclusion; there is no concrete answer to surviving in todays music industry. Old school pundits stressed the importance of networking and buzz generation by any means possible while New Media progressives represented new media applications, widgets and digital services that promised to strengthen direct to fan relationships. It wasn't until the Sudanese rapper Emmanual Jai took to the stage that he realized industry survival was about constantly adapting, bending the industry to specifically cater to your needs. Figure out what your number one need is right now as an indie artist and exploit that need. Kevin's short but enlightening read this morning brings me to the idea of a (wait for it, wait for it) digital manager. Not loading up all of your tracks on myspace, but actually hiring a manager to surf the web all day and submit your music to opportunities world wide. Has anyone tried something like this yet? let me know how it works, and what you have been doing to try to adapt.
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