Completely off topic: Myspace

[Ronan]

http://www.myspace.com/livesofthesaints

Here is my myspace page. Its ambient guitar shit with goofey pictures of me.

 

[fuzzy math]

Because you're a bro, I'll give you a little bit of big-time music business advice that is worth quite a bit more than what you'll pay me for it:

If you consider yourself a serious musician, a serious act, never let anything lame touch your presentation. I put literally hundreds of indy acts on the Manhattan garbage scow straight to the Staten Island Landfill because of lousy presentation.

Everyone in the business assumes your act is as lame as anything associated with it. Clueless picture/pose/outfit=clueless act. That's the whole crux of the R&RC site, right? You've already been dismissed as a clown act by the time anyone even hears you.

Guy, do a real picture, OK? Spend some time going through the rockandrollconfidential site to get a clear idea of what NOT to do. Find someone with a decent camera and a bit of skill as a photog and have him or her spend a little time doing some real shots. You're a solo act, so maybe you can do with finding a good spot in your house with nice indirect lighting, use an improvised fill reflector to tailor it for the most flattering effect and just do an afternoon's worth of classic promo head & shoulders shots, maybe with the optional guitar head sticking up in the corner. PhotoShop the best one to perfection. I say an afternoon's worth, because it'll probably take you an hour to get relaxed enough to do a good, natural-looking shot (check R&RC for a hundred or so examples of unrelaxed hilarious shots). If this seems unimaginative, it's not. It's industry standard for any solo act and a good photographer will make it show who you really are -- and also consider that on these websites, you're working with such a small picture that you get lost in some elaborate full-body shot. PhotoShop up a really good B&W version for newspaper reproduction for the "playing this week" entertainment section of whatever publication you're in or for display ads of your gigs. Do not -- I repeat NOT -- let your wife or girlfriend choose the final picture for you.

This is no-brainer stuff. It amazes me what a huge majority of musicians never give it a second's thought.

Good luck!

its just a myspace page. not like its some press kit he's sending out to major labels or anything. are we supposed to go to the mall and get glamour shots or something?

here's mine. all my stuff is written, played, recorded and mixed by me. i use a tascam 2488 for all my recording.

pictures taken w/ a $40 35mm camera. definately not professional.

www.myspace.com/ericbohlkemusic

 

[wondermoose]

www.myspace.com/treyduck

 

[wesley tanner]

www.myspace.com/sweetafton

BRAND NEW SONG UP TODAY, TOO!

 

[Monsterpop]

ahaaa,,,

i have a few on there mate ,, ;-)
my solo stuff being
www.myspace.com/monsterpop

other band is

www.myspace.com/theelectrics

then
www.myspace.com/wigwambamz

also,,,
www.myspace.com/justanotherdreamsongs

and,,
www.myspace.com/thestiffs
and
www.myspace.com/thecarpettes

 

[Monsterpop]

er,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,?

thats fair enuff mate,,,if you think so

so why shouldnt anyones music be taken seriously on My Space?
i dont understand that part.

if your music one is such a joke,,,why do you have it?
is the music a joke,,,or what?again,,,,fill me in?

yeah but like he said..if youre a serious musician on MYSPACE looking to get signed, that's pathetic.....myspace is lame as hell, i hate it, and only have it bc every retard teenage girl is all 'omfgz hehehee u should get it heheehe' and im like stfu whatever...no but like the music part is something that shouldn't be taken seriously on myspace...i mean, check my music one, its such a joke:
http://www.myspace.com/3892267

 

[zrockisaddictin]

ha ha ha

Perhaps you like this picture better?:
http://music.gospeedinc.com/bathroom.jpg

H2H

beautiful haha

wow great stuff on your page, lovin it

 

[hiwatt357]

threefiveseven

My music myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/threefiveseven

 

[Codmate]

i have a few on there mate ,, ;-)
my solo stuff being
www.myspace.com/monsterpop

other band is

www.myspace.com/theelectrics

then
www.myspace.com/wigwambamz

also,,,
www.myspace.com/justanotherdreamsongs

and,,
www.myspace.com/thestiffs
and
www.myspace.com/thecarpettes

Lol - man your pimp must be hella good

 

[satchmo]

http://www.myspace.com/permanentdaylightca

 

[Monsterpop]

er.....

ye lost me there old son! i might be a bit slow! ;-)

Lol - man your pimp must be hella good

 

[Codmate]

ye lost me there old son! i might be a bit slow! ;-)

Just implying that you might be a bit of a band whore

That's lots of bands!

 

[junplugged]

myspace is like the cosmos, it's endless and I couldn't live long enough to see all of it...amazing, even this thread is getting long...c u there.

 

[peopleperson]

Dude, myspace is where I pick all my 19 year old, tattooed emo girlfriends.

 

[TheRockDoc]

Mike Gossett- excellent tunes. Some familiar hooks, but who really has anything totally their own anyway? lol

I thought the trackes were all excellent...

 

[Monsterpop]

aaah,,,

i see,,with ye know then!
aye,,,yer proabably right mate.
i just wish i could make some money from more of them! ;-)

Just implying that you might be a bit of a band whore

That's lots of bands!

 

[AvoidTheClap]

www.myspace.com/avoidtheclap is my label
www.myspace.com/diminishingreturns is my band

i'm mike, you can click the pic on the left of my bands page for a link to my page.

 

[Zona Mona]

Here's Mine