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Songstuff

nice to see how songstuff is coming along. new features being added etc. as a music site it's really pretty cool, and it's good to see site crew active on the forum. i thought it about time i acknowledged this in my blog!

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What Is Art

i see endless debate of what art is. "this is art" art is in the eye or ear (or nose?) of the beholder. we live in such a polarized society of either / or with little room for the maybe. media drives this, opinion making, taste making. fact is, it's generally a lot of crap. it's just someone else's opinion, no better or worse than your opinion. good art? i guess that brings in other subjects like technique, vision etc but still is that not dealing with someone else's opinion? ther

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Been A While

been a while since i posted in my blog (shame on me), i figured it was about time. while i'm here i'll ask a question: how much of your music is your own personal therapy? ok maybe one more : how much of yourself, your feelings, do you put into your songs? i ask cos i always put a lot of my personal feelings in my work. i lay it on the line. put myself out there. when i look around most writing is about either non-emotive issues, or at least not challenging in any

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Improving Band Pages

i was looking around band web pages on songstuff and other sites and i was shocked at the state of both band pages on music sites and band home pages with their own domain. i've started looking at the standard of web pages in an attempt to improve the quality, and user experience of those page and to try and bring in more traffic. band page review topic if you'd like me to look at your page, read my initial posts in the topic and post up your url. please also review the last site revie

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Xfactor

i dunno about you but shows like XFactor piss me off. there is some real talent on show, but the format almost cheapens it. i wouldn't go as far as to say that these phone in shows are rigged but i've seen enough to believe the audience is manipulated via clip selection, singing order and a lot of other bits and pieces. that aside, the prizes are contracts. i'd love to see the terms! something along the lines of "we own your ass". maybe that's all there is! only a short moan this

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Air Guitar (again!)

i've just seen some more on the TV. these dudes are nutters, and to be honest so are the people who cheer them on from the crowd, tho i'm guessing they are probably just the same people waiting their turn lol. I just DON'T GET IT! Maybe if they called it "Look Like A Twat".....

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Excuse Addicts

Musicians are excuse addicts. Why do I say that? simple. get your average musician, get them to play for you, or play one of their songs. what do you hear? generally a long explanation prefacing their performance explaining that their fingers don't work right on Tuedsays, the fact that the song isn't complete yet, how they are emotionally traumatized by the death of their pet worm... then the first muttering of some music. quickly followed by an indepth discussion of how this isn't their in

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Who Are We Really?

people are all actors. they play a role whenever they are with someone. what do I mean? ok, for a start we have an inner and outer self. we are who we are between our own ears (generally), but all we ever present to the outside world is a facet of ourselves. that which we want someone else to see. that can change from person to person, situation to situation. we play a role in work, we play a role at home, we play a role with friends. we all have our deep dark secrets, we all have flee

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Record Labels

I've seen lots of bands waste time waiting for labels to find them. I think you are doing the right thing in trying to meet them to make contact, but I would recommend a couple of things: Get with the schmooz crowd. Great getting contacts at expos, but you need to get invited to industry events, launches and parties. that's where a lot of initial business is done. Best way to get invites is to become part of their social crowd. that means getting to know them, most likely through the gigs o

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When The Music Stops

I remember the fun and excitement, when as an young teenager I followed bands, stunned by their sheer vibrancy. I was taken places I would never have anticipated and shown things I didn't know existed. Above all I was given an identity of sorts, and I found that I was comfortable with who i could be. The bands seemed to exist on another level entirely, living a somehow gifted life, charmed. Untouchable. I believed every word I was fed. I worshiped those bands, and I felt inspired. I had bee

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Air Guitar

I must be in a minor rant mode. Air Guitar. WTF is that all about? Please tell me they don't think they look cool? I would have thought family and friends would have done the decent thing, slapped them on the back of the head and simply said "MUPPET!". Ok, it started in the 70s/80s with headbanging on the dance floor, but competitions? It's like volunteering to wear a t-shirt saying "Asshole" on it. Why is this in the fun category? Because,a lthough horrified, I can't stop laughi

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Hello, Is There Any Body In There?

Just another day on planet earth pondering the ins and outs of life. Today I'm pondering why some women feel driven to pluck their eyebrows, only to either draw them back in, or for the more afflicted tattooed back in. Is it just me or is that seriously whacked? Not content with that, some adherents of this particular path draw them back in up to 1 inch above the top of their natural eyebrows. Why? They look permanently surprized, if not more than a bit stupid. Maybe it is in eager ant

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