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By: Sharing by Example « Rich Huxley AKA TheHuxCapacitor

Sharing by Example « Rich Huxley AKA TheHuxCapacitor — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:01:59 +0000

[...] Having recently read “Me, Me, Me is Boring” by Kevin English and “Share and Share Alike” by Steve Lawson I realised that like them, I should be leading by [...]

By: Rich Huxley

Rich Huxley — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:03:37 +0000

Lovely ideas here again Steve. It’s inspire me to do a friends and followers bandcamp embed blog post like yours. Been meaning to do that for ages.

As for 48 hours without self promotion. I’ll try.

By: Joe Reed

Joe Reed — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:15:08 +0000

Great post, Steve
Thanks!

I think you might have a good explanation as to why MySpace Music kinda sucks: it’s full of bands just posting flyers for their own gigs on other band’s pages!

By: Justin Boland

Justin Boland — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:46 +0000

I really dig this — especially the fact it’s short, sweet and a call to action. This is an action more people should take. (Especially since some of them might wind up talking about me, you know?)

Self-promotion is such a dead and boring scene…but a huge one.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:46:52 +0000

Chris,

great idea with the fan invites on Facebook. Good stuff.

Re: musicians who see themselves as above everyone else. Try not to hate them. Pity fits better. It’s a really sad place to be, cos reality keeps getting in the way of you being able to confirm your sanity in light of your assumptions about your increased value to the world thanks to your (often questionable) musical talent.

Leave them to the rest, and get on with finding the community of musicians who want to share, play, chat and encourage one another.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:43:57 +0000

thanks John – I’ve not read Chris’ book. And while I’m wary of putting numbers on something like this, 12:1 sounds like a good ratio. In general, I think web concepts should be guided by common sense and ‘literacy over policy’ – guidelines can help us grasp the framework, but it’s being fluid and literate in the tools and modes of communication, and as well as their analogues in the rest of life (I find pubs to be a pretty good analogy for Twitter – ie, if you walked into a room full of strangers and stood there talking about yourself all night, you’d be rightly labeled as a self-centred freak )

cheers!

By: steve

steve — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:41:17 +0000

Hi Rikk,

I’m a big big fan of Michael, and his music. We’ve toured together a number of times, and aside from my wife, he’s my favourite musician in the world to play with. He’s the gold standard for solo bassists.

I’m not as familiar with Doug’s playing, but the stuff I’ve heard from him has been excellent. He also seems like a really nice guy, which counts for a lot!

By: lateral

lateral — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:49:56 +0000

one person said:

The universal common good doesn’t exist. But The natural-born good into Acts/Gestures. It exists! That is the difference. Sweet Web.
Congratulations

By: Rikk Kazz

Rikk Kazz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:42:52 +0000

Hi Steve,
You’re a friend of Kennan, so I take that as ‘ You are a good guy”. I’m just curious…. what do you think of Michael Manring, and also Doug Johns, as solo bassists ?…in general.
Thanks.
Rikk

By: steve

steve — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:44:25 +0000

Thanks Mike. That’s a Toby Moores quote – his take on this, as someone who’s been hugely successful in the games industry (with Sleepydog inventing the ‘Buzz’ games for Playstation and redefining social gaming) is wonderful and heartening. He gets it, and there’s no reason why anyone else from a big industry background shouldn’t also. But the new economy definitely favours the well connected small-scale operators