Dammit...I wanted to avoid this...but there are people I wish to contact, and all I can find are My Space pages. You can't contact them without joining.
*sigh*
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Dammit...I wanted to avoid this...but there are people I wish to contact, and all I can find are My Space pages. You can't contact them without joining.
*sigh*
Okay Carl,
But here is a helpful tip.
Make sure you angle your cell phone camera just right when taking your pic. A little less pout.
Model your page after this guy...
http://www.myspace.com/valeron
Seriously though, it's amazing who I've run into on that sight. Got a message from a band last night that we played with in Bilbao, Spain! back in 96. That blew my mind.
<font size="4" face="Arial">LOL!!! Man, I think he likes vampires and himself a bit too much!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Hazardous:
Okay Carl,
But here is a helpful tip.
Make sure you angle your cell phone camera just right when taking your pic. A little less pout.
Model your page after this guy...
http://www.myspace.com/valeron
I've just been noticing that many bands out there have let their actual websites die, and have all turned to letting My Space be their actual sites. It's an ugly land...but it almost seems like if you want any contact with people anymore, you have to pay the piper. Hell, I'm whoring myself out in so many ways nowdays for this damn attempt at the book, it's sick. [img]graemlins/cry_smile.gif[/img]
I think the reason for bands focusing just on myspace is this.
Your website getting hit if you're a small time band is going to be minimal at best.
It's really just the evolution of the internet.
With Myspace, you can target your music to the actual people who like your genre of music. There are 47 million users and growing on that sight. The stats on our band website is probably around a few thousand. On our myspace page the page views are close to 20 thousand and audio plays 12 thousand.
Now whats really cool lately is the addition of adding a myspace song to someones page. I've come across several people that have liked one of our songs and have it embedded in their profile. You can't buy advertising like that.
I've noticed several bigger Indie labels have 1-2 pre-pages of bands who have releases. The pre-website pages have a link to the bands myspace page to listen to a preview of the new CD. From a labels perspective it's also a great marketing tool that can just propogate itself. Plus you aren't absorbing the costs of streaming audio bandwidth on your labels webserver. You're offloading some of your marketing costs and getting added value of fans spreading the word about you.
Yeah, I know it would be wise and all that. It's just such an ugly friggin' thing.
Yeah, yeah, and here we go:
http://www.myspace.com/sonicruin
Awww, Tom looks lonely on your friends list. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Sorry to hear you had to succumb to the dark side.
LOL! I think Tom owns My Space or something.
Thanks for the sympathy. I've been thinking I was going to go this route for awhile now. It can only help me get some "connections" for this damned book that is at a standstill. So, what the hell.
It appears though that I already goofed up. I seem to have signed up for the "looking to meet people" version and not the "band" version. Thereby, I can't post any of my tunes. So, it looks that this one will be strictly for connecting with certain bands and whatnot, and I will have a link to my Multiply site which will be the main "blog"/music site.
I feel "dirty"...
<font color="#FF0099" size="1">[ January 18, 2006 07:42 PM: Message edited by: Carl I. ]</font>
Yeah, Tom was one of the pair that started Myspace, but I believe he's something like CEO now, as they sold to News Corp. (owners of Fox) a while back.
No doubt certain features will go 'subscription based' in due course, as Myspace has no serious competition.
Yeah, and Tom is what...26 or 27? I have a feeling he is FAR from lonely. He probably has more friends than God and/or Bill Gates...combined.
Hmmmm, "Ian" wants to be my friend. Is that an Ian I know from here (Glamster?)...or did Ian just suddenly find me somehow???
Tom does not need friends he has $250m he can buy everything.
But... MySpace was certainly useful for me when we were launching Jackdaw4 ( http://www.myspace.com/jackdaw4 ) last year. Got a lot of contacts through there, gave people chance to hear some songs without burning our bandwidth, and helped us sell CDs. The annoying thing is just weeding out the "friend collectors" from the people that are interested in the music.
MySpace can be cool to keep in touch with people or even make new friends even though I hate it sometimes... and yeah, that can be a useful promotional tool for bands but it's a pity to see that some bands don't even have their own real website anymore but only a MySpace page...
It also seems like some bands are just "MySpace bands", I mean, they must spend their days to send friend requests to have huge friend lists but when you look at their profile you realize that they hardly play any shows... isn't a rock'n'roll band supposed to get in a van, play shows and release records?
Anyway, Carl, I'm going to send you a request [img]smile.gif[/img]
You are added Laur! In both your lives, you and Sparkling.
How do I do these bulletin thingys that I have on the site???
Yep it was me Carl - couldn't see ya sat there with just one friend sir.
[B]<font size=3 color=gold>*Ooooops* ...Carl, I meant with your suit on <img src="http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/icons/icon19.gif" <img src="http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/icons/icon17.gif"
MySpace can fuck off. It's great for the millions
of lazy Internet conformists - who waste their
life leaving lazy-sounding messages for each
other - and who can't be arsed learning HTML,
but it's also aesthetically vapid and junked up
to its feathery hilt. Take that vampire
fart for starters: almost everything he has to
say, show, or do, is shot (in the jizz sense)
all over the front page. MySpace users shouldn't
have access to HTML because they're all shit at
it. Although, what is rather amusing about the
vampire man, is that, the further down the page
you scroll, the balder he gets. It's nice MySpace
hosts 3 or 4 songs, with a few stats, but, so
what? How difficult is it to FTP an mp3 to one's
own dotcom? ... Quite difficult, actually, if
you're name's Hunter, but that's another story.
Convenience store culture at its most disappointedly
tedious and turgid.
Pfe! MySpace: You can stuff it rrrright up your
jacksie! [img]wink.gif[/img]
D.
<font color="#FF0099" size="1">[ January 19, 2006 03:11 PM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font>
<font size="4" face="Arial">Tom? Ah, he's no friend of mine. Just some goon who wants to be my friend.Quote:
Originally posted by glamster7:
Yep it was me Carl - couldn't see ya sat there with just one friend sir.
Ya threw me there, as you look nothing like I was expecting. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Markii, I knew what you meant, but yeah...it kind of came across...ummm...yeah...
D., so, you don't have a page is what you're saying??? Yeah, the place sucks, but I'll use it to get in touch with certain bands that have chosen to not have actual sites. Bastards.
I set up two: one for Ratpack and one for myself/
solo stuff, so I speak from a cultural experience,
living with the thing everyday etc.
I found dealing with the endless minutiae of
promo messages, 4 word 'thanx for adding me'
msgs, zero critical feedback (far too time
time consuming, thinking is, of course) of
anything of worth on the pages, airbrushed
box bedroom Internet egos etc., a really pain
in the jacksie... I kept looking out of the
window and wondering why I wasn't enjoying life.
D.
<font size="4" face="Arial">Wow, I like that! Nice word use!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Deviant D:
airbrushed
box bedroom Internet egos
That's me added too.... I wanna be yer friend Carl [img]cool.gif[/img] [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
I know that's you! You're my "multi-site" buddy! LOL!!!
Holy fuck Darren, that made me laugh, SOoooo Angry!
Sooo tired, really. Was absolutely knackered
yesterday. I still think mySpace is heading for
the toilet, though, once it becomes subscription
based and users start realizing...'Actually, I
don't really care as much as I thought I did
about my site, now that I have to pay for it.'
We'll see. Why oh why people plaster their home
pages in loads of crap (which probably takes
people even on slow broadband connections, never
mind the dial up folks, hours to download) is
a mystery. I imagine these same people also have
all of their house's furniture stacked up on the
front porch? [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img]
D.
<font size="4" face="Arial">Darren, you're killing me! LOL!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Deviant D:
We'll see. Why oh why people plaster their home
pages in loads of crap (which probably takes
people even on slow broadband connections, never
mind the dial up folks, hours to download) is
a mystery. I imagine these same people also have
all of their house's furniture stacked up on the
front porch? [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img]
D.
Anybody know what, if any, etiquette there is on adding "friends" to your site? Is it proper to ask people first before sending them a "add" so that they are reminded of who you are, or is it standard to just ship out "add"'s?
I actually got a junk mail post today. Kind of annoying. I've also noticed that the amount of crap in my "bulk" folder has increased. Hmmm.
[img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img]
actually Carl, i think proper etiquette is to send a message before adding that contains a self-taken picture of yourself standing in front of a mirror in just your underwear. that seems to be pretty common ...
... hell, you added me after i sent you one haha
Yeah, but you're naked in your avatar, so seeing you naked is hardly anything new. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
i'm not naked, i have socks on thank you =)
I'm on there too:
myspace.com/burgundytrashglam
and my evil twin:
myspace.com/lugburz
I know the BT pic isn't one of my glammed out pics going to upload those soon too! and my demo track should be up by tomorrow...uploaded that this am...
I can't wait until the majority of the world is on there and then they start charging $50 a month. There will be some lost people.
<font size="4" face="Arial">Which band darling? Just curiosityQuote:
Originally posted by Hazardous:
Okay Carl,
Seriously though, it's amazing who I've run into on that sight. Got a message from a band last night that we played with in Bilbao, Spain! back in 96. That blew my mind.