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Jim Alfredson
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I think you're right. But we'll still need money. Any thoughts on Kickstarter? Anybody here used it in any form?
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Ok, so the consensus is to make a physical CD. That means we need to raise money. We've done a decent job in the past with the private pre-orders but I'm thinking this time around to take it to Kickstarter and see if we can raise enough to do a full run of 1,000 discs for regular folk and radio and maybe a special run of 100 discs with different art / packaging for the collectors. And maybe have enough left over to do a mild media push (radio / press). To do that would take about $8-10k. Without the media push it would be $5-7k. Considering the folks here and on other forums and social networking sites I'm involved in, I think it may be possible. Thoughts?
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I'm noticing some artifacts after uploading 320kbps mp3s to soundcloud. I assume it's from their own encoding process. What is the best format to upload to minimize that? Should I upload wav files and let soundcloud do the conversion?
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So I just found a huge stash of messages I've never seen here on FB from people going back two years! So weird. And I had three messages from today that never showed up in my feed.
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You haven't gotten yours yet? That's not good.
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Nothing like realizing you messed up and something is due TOMORROW. Busting butt to get three short song demos and 9 sound demos done tonight for a soundbank that I thought was due next week. Shit.
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The Hopcat Jam last night was a lot of fun and a nice mixture of young and older musicians all enjoying themselves and learning from each other. That's one of the great things about music! Highlight of the night for me was seeing and hearing my mentor, Doug Decker play the organ. He's a bad man!
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That is certainly the truth. I very much miss playing with Joe. The new guitarist is very good and a very different player from Joe. It will be a different sound. Thanks for all the replies. I have more thinking to do.
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Scarlett is two today! Where has the time gone? My little Super P is a toddler now (and definitely into the Terrible Two's. Good grief!)
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In November we should be done with the basic tracking for the next organissimo album. It is tentatively titled "Dedicated" and each tune is written for a specific person who has influenced our music. I hope to have it out by early spring. The poll question is rather self-explanatory. Should we even bother pressing physical CDs? I've literally boxes of the previous four releases sitting in my attic. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Most sales these days are through iTunes, Amazon.com's mp3 service, Rhapsody, etc. Yes, some folks still purchase CDs, but not very many. Especially since we are not touring or playing as many gigs these days as we used to, due to my commitment to Janiva Magness' band. We sell most of our physical inventory on gigs. We don't have the budget to do a radio promotion this time around and it never really did us much good anyway in terms of sales or booking gigs, mainly because we don't have the infrastructure behind us to take advantage of it (ie, no booking agent, no management agency, etc.) so I'm not really concerned about whether or not radio gets the disc. Same for reviewers. One idea I've been contemplating is doing a very limited run, say 300 discs, like I did with my solo release. Send 100 to the top jazz stations that supported us the most last time around (instead of the usual 250) and then have 200 for sale on the web. Once they're gone, they are gone. Just looking for some opinions. Myself... I haven't bought an actual CD in years. I usually buy mp3s from Amazon due to their high bitrate vs. iTunes. It seems to be closer to a dead format than ever.
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I tube section in the XK3 is rather dull, imo. I don't ever bother with it. Changing the tube in the 3300, however, makes a big difference. I recommend a NOS (new old stock) Tung Sol 12AT7. Not the new Tung Sols. The name was bought by some Chinese firm and they are not good. Get an old one off eBay. They are relatively inexpensive. Put that baby in there and you'll notice a HUGE difference. You can also experiment with other older brands like RCA, Sylvania, Philips, GE, etc. But I like the Tung Sols the best.
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Sorry to say goodbye to our Norwegian friends who spent the last five days here in Lansing / E. Lansing. I met Tommy in Hell, Norway last month and we became instant friends. He and his lovely wife and two young children were planning on just visiting California but decided to swing through Michigan. We had a ball!
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Have you changed the tube in the 3300?
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So... y'all got em?
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San Francisco, it was real. Heading back to LA tomorrow and home on Tuesday. Can't wait to see my babies and my wife. Also have a friend from Norway coming to visit for the week. I get to show him the awesomeness that is Lansing.
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The few times I've watched Piers Morgan (usually in hotels) I've been unimpressed with his softball questions. But tonight I just happened to flip through and was pleasantly surprised by him grilling that smarmy televangelist Joel Osteen about the death penalty. (more below)
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Playing at Palms Playhouse in Winters, CA tonight! 8pm! Yikes! Better get my butt to the club.
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Evidently Costco is where people go to buy toilet paper. Either that or the folks at Costco spend an inordinate amount of time on the shitter.
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Powerhouse.
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Wendy's changes its burger
Jim Alfredson replied to GA Russell's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Yes, and they are about as good as you'd imagine a fast food salad to be. That's what I was eating for the first two weeks of the tour. For the last, I just couldn't do it anymore. So I usually ate a banana from whatever hotel we were in the previous night for breakfast, some peanuts for a lunch snack (good protein) and then wait until after load-in and soundcheck to eat dinner at the venue. The trials and tribulations of the road!