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Re: A guitarist and his MySpace page
Just a spin-off from a comment I made on the GNR section about 40 year old musicians and the internet.
I was involved quite a lot online with another band. I was like Jarmo of that band, but like an evil Jarmo. Let's say I was like a mellow Bono (of this board) with Jarmo's powers.
When the guitarist finally launched an official website that looked like it came from 1999 in 2005, I wanted the band and the guitarist to promote themselves further. I asked his people why the guitarist couldn't have his own page on MySpace. Some of his people could set it up easily.
I was told that the guiarists promotion online was at his website, and nothing else. Their idea was that everything should be centered around one place. It was THERE. Nowhere else. Besides, his PC was like 7 years old and his studio did not have a proper internet connection.
So I got together more people and pushed the matter further. This was during those mega MySpace days, a bit before Facebook came into the fold.
They gave in and finally opened up an official MySpace page.
It had a profile picture and said:
News and information about X.X. can be found at http:///www...etc etc.com
Re: A guitarist and his MySpace page
In Axl, or other artists defense, I do believe some of these guys are computer ignorant.
I know a radio show host, who has operated a shit website for 10 years, filed lawsuits against so-called "pirates", all because he has no clue how the 'net works, and doesn't want to admit it.
His own syndicator posted clips of his show on iTunes, and yet he turned around and tried to launch a lawsuit against the admin of a popular fan board for it.
He's convinced Feedburner and Google steals his content, because of their search engines.
He thinks posting a podcast on his own server, is "iTunes".
The dude is an absolute moron...
Re: A guitarist and his MySpace page
Hell, a local band I know did the opposite. They put a link on their own website to the myspace page saying to look there for updates. Now they can have songs up for interested people to hear, but they don't have to pay for the space to host them.
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