I am still not ready to talk about the live gig yet. I been writing it out in my head the key points and other points. It will come about.
I put a flag banner on the main page. One of our new fans who just added us had it on hers. yea, I do check out just about every new fan that wants us to add them ...
Out old pin the country banner, seems dead and I deleted the code for it, I did not even make note of it so it's gone for good. A shame as it showed over the years, how many around the world did visit.
Which is now a point, I am about to spend time re-doing the main page ... expect stange'ness for a while ...
I am not a fan of common everyday band pages ... cookie cutter things, then again, most fans, they can navigate, find what they want, read up with a common page.
me? I like to put intriguing things up ... so I have to find a balance there ...
I am open to comments on it ... after all it is there for the fans ... to get some info on what we are up too, perhaps intrigue new fans to tune in and give me a feedback on what I am doing marketing wise. Not music ... sorry .. I am going in my own direction there. crazy huh?
games ...
again ... they are just that, games ... I play them to intrigue new fans ... they are only games ... I do play them aggressive and to win ... if you think I am picking on you, join the clan, guild or what ever ... else, if I see you listed to battle, attack or what ever to gain points .. this I will do ... most of these games, like viking clan, I want more clan members ... however, I am finding it hard to find teams to battle ... a balance it is ...
music, I got video and dat recording of the live gig ... seems some fans decided to be close to a few of the mikes and some background noise is there, talking ... camera people seem to have forgot who I was, the band leader .. so I am not seen very much in the videos ... the ladies are ... fancy that ... the guitar players are ... fancy that again ... the other synth man is ... but me? just slap me in the face since I set it all up, made the stage, hauled a ton of gear down, set it all up and ... I did have some help, I wish to thank those who did help, a big THANKS .. but 90% of it was me .. and it was my gig ... I am not going to bang my head on it too hard ... which is why I am not saying much ... so far ...
Another GIG is in the making ... a almost 2 million dollar house is the background ... it will happen in a few weeks ... private affair ... if any want to drop in, do contact me ... it will be filmed. It is a close set as they say ... not a party but more like a party of the band ... we have access to this house as it is up for sale ... the owners never lived in it, they have been building it for 13 years, it is about 6 or 7000 feet up in the mountains that over look Antelope Valley .. a great back drop for a music video ... Edwards AFB (were most know, the flying saucers are) is very visible ...
OK .. lets get this genre right ... it seems most can not figure out what we do and call it all kinds of things ... New Age, synth pop (why that?) Space Music and on and on ...
I decided ... for right now, Space Music seems to mean the most to anyone who asks, what kind of music is it? If you ask me, I really do not care, no longer ponder it unless someone tells me I am doing disco or pop ... then I get a bit concern .... While I have heard these things, music in the style of disco and pop, I do not think my work falls in that genre at all. I can live with Space Music ... logical thinking, space has no air, how can sound travel in no air? yet ...
do you not remember, "In space, no one can hear you scream."?
what is really funny .. see those who are into country and western .. hard core now ... listen to what I do ... it's the eyes ... watch their eyes ...
so ... because I choose a western set for the live gig, a few hard core country/western fans showed up ... it must have been the pedal steel ...
while I am setting up, the guitar players decided to start playing this ... style of music ....
which then goes with the camera people ... and on the dominos fall ...
I am going to hire a Dalek next gig too ...
btw ... all of this stuff while setting up the synths and such, such a distraction ... then by the time we are to play, everyone has had their fill, some left ... others started to complain .. it's too loud ... and ... I said dominos right? it was a chain reaction ....
I almost knew, the filming was going to be not something I wanted to see. I put off looking for a week... I looked, I just did the last of the transfer last night ... I can pull it together but it is not as planned ... so impromptu it is in the very real sense ... and not much of me at all unless it was by accident ... 1000% upstaged by my band members ... good thing I have no ego .. that was long ago destroyed by them ...
I think that is why I decided "Space Music" seems the best way to describe what I do for now ... I heard that once too many times on the 10th ...
Studio ....
well it is as it was when I unloaded all the stuff from the gig ... it is as it was then for two weeks now ... I just look at it ... drums are going out ... as I mentioned in facebook ... I want my synths back off their sides and in play mode ... I give up on trying to work with a drummer. No money to pay them to start with, no drummer near by, no drummer who understands the genre and on and on again ... I have decided ... I will just use my drum machine(s) samples and so on ... Lorraine can bang the percussion stuff ... She too is off her rocker ...
She told me she is tired of trying to put together her band to do live gigs and even get to the point of a live gig. Just her filming and IB music is all she wants to focus on now... which is why that 2 million dollar house came into play, it's used in some of her filming ... I am sure the aliens are going to have a blast with the "Space Music".
Lorraine has to get hand surgery ... she has one of those things that grows between the joints/tendons that makes it very painful to use your hand ... which is getting in the way of her guitar playing, keyboarding and so on ... she got that awful shot last year which did lower the problem down but now it is back.
Imagine how it is being upstaged by your wife on stage ....
mistakes made .... I have a ton ... I lost count ... maybe I will do something right in the near future ....
I did stay true to myself in my music ... among other things ....
expect clips and mp3s(I hate mp3s) soon ... lets call them outtakes ... then the whole video will be ready for DVD sales later ...
Rodney D. comic ... remember? ... we have more in common lately than I want ...
dale <------------- has head in sand .... no longer is beating it on walls ... too painful