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    Songstuff Writer and Artist Development Challenges

    By john

    Independent writers and artists face several large disadvantages when they are compared to signed, mainstream writers and artists.  Disadvantages that add up to making it a competition that indies can’t win. Hell they can’t even compete.   Lack of budget and poor contacts are fairly obvious disadvantages. Lack of experience and a lack of knowledge restricts songwriters and artists alike. Lack of an overall strategy, and a limited set of incomplete tactics, makes for a critical problem
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Hello Strangers

Hey there guys, it's seems to have been an eternity since I last visited this wonderful site. I have had so much work to do with my college course Hospitality Managment a great course that is 100% coursework, so much I have done over the past 2 years for it. I regret to inform you all but I have not done much writing as of late, I have not played my guitar either, its just been gathering dust in the corner of my room and it really is a shame. I feel as if I have lost every last dro
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Another Lazy Day (starting To Convey I Dont Do Anything :d )

Currently Listening to - Dont Jump - Tokio Hotel ( I love the guitar riff at the start, you should listen to it) Current Mood : Moderatley Happy Time : 00:32 I Scream Into The Night For You, Dont Make It True , Dont Jump, The Lights Will Not Guide You Through, They Are Decieving You. I love this song. Anyways I now have a nice cup of tea and a lit cigarette so to my day. I finished my work experience as part of my course for college today and now have a 2 week break
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Failed Econnomy Updates...

And we occasionally do the unnecessary… Musicated a Betty Holt song, “Our Own Stimulus Plan, “ a good uptempo, between-the-sheets tune; she’d contacted me earlier about using the song in the Failed Economy Show, but said she may actually have someone else doing music for it. It got music anyway because I had to get it out of my head. (Indicates it’s a good song.) I can go back to doing necessary things now. Stan Good’s “WD-40 the Economy” has a revised soundtrack, with the changes Stan
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Producing The Failed Economy Record...

Well, the plumbing emergency is over. (Most folks probably weren’t aware there was one.) What it took to fix it is a deterrmined application of the proper tool in the right place—and persistence. Winston Churchill’s answer to how to win World War II: “Never, never, never, NEVER give up.” Not bad rules to apply to everything, really. FAILED ECONOMY SHOW has gotten some nice submissions, and more keep coming in. I’ve made copies of an hour’s worth for the band; we’ll pick through those,
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Amplitube Jimi Hendrix Review

Hi I've just written a new in-depth review of AmpliTube - Jimi Hendrix. AmpliTube is a software amplifier simulator, the Jimi Hendrix edition providing amp simulations of the kinds of rigs that Jimi Hendrix used including amplifiers, effects racks and stomp boxes. http://recording.songstuff.com/article/Amp...be_Jimi_Hendrix Cheers John
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Amplitube Jimi Hendrix

New in-depth review of AmpliTube - Jimi Hendrix by John Moxey. AmpliTube is a software amplifier simulator, the Jimi Hendrix edition providing amp simulations of the kinds of rigs that Jimi Hendrix used including amplifiers, effects racks and stomp boxes. Read more about AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix.
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Red Room Number Two...

RED ROOM #2 will be THURSDAY, 30 APRIL, 9 P.M. Poster’s done. First practice will be Saturday, 28 April (St. leif’s Eve, by the way). Sharma’s setting up times (I’m flexible, being unemployed and all). Setlist will be: Bluebird on My Windshield (fast trucker rhythm) Hey, Little Chicken (country blues) Naked Space Hamsters in love (fast bluegrass) Eatin’ Cornflakes from a Hubcap Blues (slow & sleazy) Dirty Deeds We Done to Sheep (rock ‘n’ roll, Johnny Cash style) 50 Ways to
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More Video Thoughts...

About the time I finish and post one “issue” of the blog, I start another one. I’m not sure whether that means a lot is happening, or I just have too much time on my hands. Probably the latter. Why else would I spend time on Facebook’s “Which Disney Princess Are You?” quiz? (I’m Cinderella, in case you hadn’t guessed.) Some things are going okay. I have two bands I’m playing with, and we have a fan base; the ability to get gigs may be limited mostly by reluctance to ask for them. Ther
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Video Thoughts (mostly)...

I have seen both of the Bay City videos—the one taken by John with his digital camera (it had enough memory for two songs), and the one taken by Dick’s wife Carol (which caught nearly all of the 2-hour show). John’s is not bad visually, but the audio is awful. I assume that’s the result of the camera’s limitations (those built-in mikes are cheap), and that we really didn’t sound that bad. Dick’s has better sound (more expensive camera, better microphone), but It’s still not great; the b
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I'm In Two Bands Now?

A couple of “uppers” (that’s good—helps offset the two job rejection letters I got in the mail). I got hit up on the street by a fan asking when the band were going to do our next concert (I think it will be the Failed Economy Show, and probably the beginning of May). I’ve heard already from a number of folks who didn’t make it to the Bay City concert but say they are determined to come to the next one—and I’ve encouraged them, emphasizing what a good time they missed. The director of
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First Music Video (sort Of)...

Okay, we got a band. They play really good together, they’re interested in playing together, and they’d like to do more gigs. Where do we go from here? We did videotape the Bay City Concert, with two different cameras—I haven’t seen how the tapes came out. The more sophisticated of the cameras is old, but Dick has the equipment to convert its VHS tape to DVD. We should have a couple of promo audio tracks on hand, and the only way to get them may be by recording them. (At John’s,
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Bay City Post-mortem...

The Big Bay City Concert is over. It went really well—without a hitch, in fact—the audience (most of whom I knew) loved us, and there were a few of the Arts Center’s Board on hand, too (so I urged the audience to tell those guys how much we were appreciated). We did some things that worked right. We did four practices in the three weeks before the gig, plus I spent the better part of a day with John the bass player, Wednesday nights with lead guitarist Jeff at the Ghost Hole, and Friday n
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The Band Is Good...

The band is really good. I think the folks who come to the Arts Center are going to get a heck of a show for their five bucks. I hope we pack the place. I want people telling the Arts Center they want us back, and people from other places wanting to hire us to play in their communities or for their events. I have made sure some key people (like the manager of the Recreation District) knew about it, and got invited to attend; I don’t know if they will—I have endured a lot of times when things
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Updates--4 Days Till Bay City...

The Red Room wants the Portland Band back. (I’m not surprised—we were good.) They’ve offered a choice of dates, but two of the band haven’t decided whether they want to do it again. I’ve encouraged Sharma the bass player to talk to them, and the Red Room, about the details; I’m in, if they can work something out. I think I have the go-ahead from the Coast Band to go get more gigs. They’re committed to playing the gig at the Garibaldi Museum in June, and the Failed Economy Concert as well
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And 50 (sorta) Ways To Cure The Depression...

The “Failed Economy Concert” is going to fly, I think. Bass player’s in, and I think the rest of the band will follow. Our postmistress (who is president of the local Lions Club) is excited about the idea, and offered the Lions’ sponsorship; we can do the concert on the Dance Floor at Garibaldi City Hall—second-biggest meeting space in the county (it’ll hold 500 people if they’re friendly), and the Lions will pay the City the rent for the building. Haven’t talked dates yet. I’ve told eve
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There's No Point Anymore...

Terrible news people... I recieved this email today from The Point in Cardiff bay, my favourite Cardiff venue by far (The Barfly is a nasty little hole, it just gets good bands!): "It is with deep regret that we announce the closure of the venue today. On 27th February 2009 the Director of the Point Cardiff Bay Limited signed the appropriate notices to call a meeting of creditors pursuant to S98 Insolvency Act 1986. A number of factors have contributed to this situation. Many of y
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Streetlight Manifesto 04/12/2008

Streetlight Manifesto 04/12/2008 This was another long looked forward to gig, after their blinding support slot for Reel Big Fish I couldn't wait to see them headline. They were playing at The Croft in Bristol, which I had never been to before. The Croft is a tiny venue, 170 capacity, and felt smaller (that number may be for the bar area as opposed to, or as well as the band room). I missed both support acts, as I was helping my friend find a spare ticket, as he had messed up the booking
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And Now, The Economy (sort Of)...

One of the interesting facets of the Failed Economy is people have become more comfortable talking about their personal financial problems. That’s particularly evident here on the Coast, where folks have historically been very private about their personal lives. But it seems that personal financial troubles have passed from the realm of private embarrassments to that of shared experience. Rather like a freak snowstorm—everybody’s been hit by it (and everybody knows everybody’s been hit by it)
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Ten Days Till Bay City...

Bay City Arts Center says they won’t have their new sound board in time for the March 7 concert. I’m not sure (yet) how big a problem that is; they do (or did) have a soundboard, a 4-channel one, and I’m not sure why they were replacing it, and I have to find out. (They’re also fixing the building’s furnace, and I don’t know if that will be done in time for the concert.) In the meantime, the band (bless ‘em) do have some resources that we can put together. I have an ancient Sony 6-chan
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The Bay City Setlist...

Setlist for the Bay City concert looks like this: Dead Things in the Shower (mod. fast country) Armadillo on the Interstate (slow & sleazy) Bluebird on My Windshield (fast bluegrass) The Frog Next Door (deliberate blues) The Termite Song (fast bluegrass) Tillamook Railroad Blues (deliberate blues) Prehistoric Roadkill (fast bluegrass) Welcome to Hebo Waltz (fast waltz) Free-Range Person (fast bluegrass) Milepost 43 (mod. fast country) Dead Fishes (fast bluegrass) B
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Flipron And Misty's Big Adventure

Flipron and Misty's Big Adventure 30/11/2008 So! Again, I find myself apologising for a tardy review, which I am, indeed, sorry for. I have no real excuse, except that my life feels more sorted now, so I don't mind 'wasting' time on this (as opposed to applying for jobs, for example). This was a gig I was looking forward to for a long while (it felt that way anyway), as I have loved Flipron since I saw them at Beautiful Days, and Misty's Big Adventure since I saw them doing support for D
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Practice With Band No. 2...

Practice with Band No. 2 (we have got to get them some names) went real well. Jeff (lead), John (bass) and Dick (harmonica) work really well together. It helped, I think, that I’d given all of them CDs with the songs (helped, too, that Jeff and I have played a lot of these in our Wednesday nights at the tavern). They’re excited, and so am I. I’m comfortable advertising the concert, now that I’m sure we’re going to be good. We’ll have time for a couple more practices before the Big Concert.
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