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How To Respond To A Crisis. A Lesson From Sungard.

June 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments

I have a friend who works in Marketing for Sungard - they’re a huge, multi-national, multi-billion dollar IT Services/financial information/Software company. Massive. Bigger than big.
What interesting for us musical types is their response to the financial crisis. A situation which, naturally, they took very seriously indeed, partly because they were deeply affected, but also because [...]

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Tags: Rant - Politics, Spirituality, etc. · the future of music

Rejoining Emusic’s subscription download service.

March 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Steve Lawson's Behind Every Word album, for MP3 download on emusic.com, screengrabI just started my subscription to Emusic again. Emusic is one of the biggest site for indie music download sales, and works on a subscription model, so you pay for a certain number of tracks a month. I get 50 tracks for £11.99, I think.

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Listen to the Lawson/Dodds/Wood album now (if you want to :) )

October 8th, 2008 · No Comments

First up, a HUGE thanks to everyone who’s bought the album already - thanks for the feedback, and thanks for investing in the music. It means that (if sales continue as they are) we’ll be able to pay for the pressing of the CD without going into any kind of debt… makes the whole process [...]

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Tags: Music News · Musing on Music · site updates

Lawson/Dodds/Wood album… release is nigh. :)

August 11th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I’ve finally heard the proper mixed ‘n’ mastered version of the Lawson/Dodds/Wood album. It sounds amazing - Patrick has done an incredible job both of the editing and mixing mastering.
In case you missed it, Lawson/Dodds/Wood is a trio that came out of my Recycle Collective project (which is currently on a temporary hiatus). I’d played [...]

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It pains me to say it, but Billy Bragg couldn’t be more wrong…

July 26th, 2008 · 9 Comments

…And here was me hoping that the arguments over ‘flat license fees’ for music online were going away and people realised it was largely unworkable. Gerd Leonhard has been pushing this for a while as the answer - Gerd is a futurist, and as I’ve said before, he approaches the industry with the characteristic fatalism [...]

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Tags: the future of music · tips for musicians

Social Media Thoughts 5: Sharing the Love pt 1 - fans.

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you listened to the podcast I’ve been talking about in the last couple of posts, you’ll know that one of the things I’ve been thinking about of late is how Social Media lets the story of what we do and why we do it be told in as many ways as there are people [...]

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Tags: Geek · Musing on Music · the future of music · tips for musicians

Review - And Nothing But The Bass (No Warning e-zine)

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

“And nothing but the bass! No, don’t be afraid, you are not likely to get bored just because a single instrument takes the spotlight in this recording; in fact you will have the opportunity to discover a new world of sounds and colours conjured up by the intelligent use of the bass, which is perhaps [...]

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Thoughts and Questions on Originality.

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Been having some fantastic conversations with creative people of late on the subject of originality. It’s a subject that seems to lead to wildly different comments and responses from creative people, but rather too often seems to become deified or fetishised to the detriment of the resultant art.
With solo bass being such a niche musical [...]

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Tags: Musing on Music · bass ideas · tips for musicians

Some thoughts on ‘Free’ methodology and practice…

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s the big buzz-concept in the online world - the new currency is attention, recorded music can be duplicated at zero cost, so we should all give it away in order to promote ourselves as a brand, and the caveat often added to this is that we make our money off live shows.
OK, let’s contrast [...]

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Tags: cool links · the future of music · tips for musicians

Downloading made easy, the Reverb Nation Widget way!

April 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Not sure why I didn’t think of this before, but you can download all of Lessons Learned from An Aged Feline Pt II from the widget below. It’s a four step process, as follows:
1. click the word ’songs’ at the top of the widget.
2. click on ‘What Was Going On’
3. put your email address into [...]

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