I’m doing some work on the website, so if some things seem odd or just aren’t working right don’t worry I’m in the process of fixing them.
Also I was reading this article and thought it was kind of interesting. This guy gives away free content to his viewers and lets advertisements pay for his website and pretty much everything else he does. Which made me think, what if a band tried this approach? With so many major labels bitching about people “stealing” artist’s music (which I think is bullshit, but that’s a post for another time) what’s to stop them from doing what this guy is doing. Like what if we put up all our music in high quality lossless FLAC format for free and put up a couple of ads and a donation thing on the site and let that pay for the costs of recording/mixing/mastering/website hosting/touring/living/etc. I think that would be kind of cool, I would love to be able to go to my favorite band’s website and grab whatever song I wanted for free and at the same know that I’m helping support them just by visiting their site. I would also be able to tell my friends to go check out this great band and download and listen to their music, and the band would get payed from my friends visiting their website.
Although I know the downside is that nobody likes ads (especially me) but on the other hand when you know that they’re being used in this manner (for good instead of evil) I don’t think it’s so bad. The website above talks about how if he put annoying pop up ads and the kind that fly across your screen he would make more money, but he doesn’t because it degrades the user experience to much, I thought that was pretty cool.
Anyway I think I’m going to keep this in mind, it sounds neat to me since it would give us more time to work on songs and stuff instead of having to work ‘real’ jobs to pay for all the recording/mixing/mastering/website hosting/touring/living/etc. stuff and try to squeeze in time for music.

My nephew got an incomplete mini drumset and Billy and I decided to jam out on it about three weeks ago. Billy was playing a crappy acoustic guitar and I played the drums. After a little while of jamming Billy was like “You know this is exactly what I imagined Mop and Bucket would sound like.” Mop and Bucket was a fake band Billy made up in an art class we had when we were in high school. The thing was you had to make a cd cover insert of a fake band, or create a new cd cover insert of an already existing band. Billy made a hilarious cover of a band he made up called Mop and Bucket where the guitarist was a mop playing a guitar, and a bucket banging on itself with a pair of drumsticks. Anyway I decided to recorded it on my phone, and later posted it on youtube. The quality is pretty shitty since it’s a cell phone, but it’s kinda funny. Well, at least we think its funny anyway. I also made captions for it that you can access by clicking the bottom right arrow of the video, I couldn’t remember or make out all of what Billy was saying so I just put questions marks at some parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYwGBFrFnVE

Oh yeah, the cover band I’m in finally decided on a name, here’s the myspace link: The Noise Vandals