Money...
I've decided that I'm going to push myself to make $10,000 by the end of the year doing stuff that isn't my normal job/business. I'm including new customers for my shop into this.
I don't know how I'm going to do it yet, so don't ask. There are a few ideas bopping around in my head.
There's 11 weeks between now and then. Figure a week to figure out how to do it, and then 10 weeks to earn some bucks. Whatever I do, I have to keep my investment costs under say, $500.
We'll see. Anybody want to place some bets?
Maybe I could do some part time telemarketing... just kidding.
posted by SuperDad @ 9:39 AM
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Hmmm... I don't have a whole lot of hair left. Granted I still have some red hair, but let's keep this G-rated.
The picture I posted of me is from my mom's funeral. I don't have quite so much hair anymore. Serious widow peaking going on.
Today was Sweetest Day. I came home and my man took me out to dinner, gave me flowers and surprised me with a DVD he had just made from a VHS tape of my first video camera footage from 1995. So I am sitting there just enjoying the heck out of it, and I get to the part where Ray and Brian bring out the axes and start doing some original stuff. And once again, hearing this music, I am thinking, "These are KILLER songs." And my next thought was, these guys should have shared this music with the world because it is too excellent not to! And at this point I am also thinking, "They could both use a few extra bucks. Wouldn't that be great if they got a buyer and could market this music?" So 3 hours later I read your blog...Brian, take that $5oo and figure out how to peddle this killer music. Just do it.
I was thinking the same thing a few days ago, well..not the same thing. But that the music was killer. I lost my "Wintergreen" tape in a freak tape eating accident (not me the machine) You guys were really good. Remember the bonfires and the songs? Yeah..those were good days
Kathryn still has a Wintergreen tape. It's the one with "...and on flipping the cassette, the wise man smiles..."
She listens to it just about every night. I can make you a copy, I just have to go buy some blank tapes. I've tried to get Ray into the recording studio, even offered to pay. Maybe you all could convince him. I'm still game.
I wrote a song for Rhonda 2 Valentines ago and recorded it down at Dragon Piano. Cost me about $30. That included 5 copies of the song and they have the master down there if I ever want more copies.
$30 times 10 songs is an album. $300 maybe $400 since Ray is so unbelievably rusty. Then having it duped 100 times with jewel cases and cover art. Kirk Schneider could do all that for little or nothing. Just the cost of supplies.
I have a friend in Seattle who could do some legwork to get the demos in the hands of people who could do something. I don't know if he would, though. He's in the porn industry.
Peg Earl also knows a lot of people in the "folk music" industry. I still see her about once a month. Maybe we could even have Dave do a guest appearance song since he's clean and sober again.
Ain't nothin but hound dog. Yes, I have a copy of that.
I've got goosebumps..and I'd love a copy of the tape and to hear the song you did for Rhonda. I remember reading the lyrics. They were great.
Whu?! Wuzgoonon? Somebody's getting a band together?
RUSTY?
I'm better than ever, man.
My neighbor, Ned Flanders, who reads your blog every day and then prays for your soul, asked if your band does any songs about Je-diddledy-esus, and I told him, "shut up, nobody wants to hear that crap", but then I heard that our hero, Ray, has written some outstanding songs on that subject in the intervening years.
From what I gather the time may be ripe to finally do something with your music. Stop kidding around you guys...get on the phone and start making plans. Okay, kid around, because that is who you are, but I have always had a gut feeling (please, no jokes) that you guys came up with some winning stuff. That 10K is sounding doable. Do it before you lose all your hair.
Well Brane, it sounds like we've already got two albums sold. Think we could break ten?
maybe...
Here's my ideas for a playlist:
Is she the lady
Sleep, Loving Angel (the one I wrote for Rhonda)
Struggle
Those Days are Gone
Another Song about rain
The Ex song
Wrong Questions
The one that goes "I can't help it if people are watching all the things that I'm doing..."
Swirling Snow
Doctor Joe ...maybe?
...need 1-4 more for a full set.
What about my personal favorite...lullaby...if ever there was an annointing from music that song has it. And yes I would buy a copy or you could take it out in trade...:) I meant borrow some of our equipment :0
man..does that list bring back memories...
I hate them all, let's just cover veggie tales tunes. OR, ooooh, here's a really artsy idea, we could record all the talk and preparation BETWEEN songs, and shut the recording off when we start to play -- that'd be our CD, like it?
What about the Army song (angry children)?
I wouldn't buy that cd...you two THINK your funny....haha
'Angry Children' was ok. If we do that, we will need drums. Same goes for 'Those Days are Gone'.
Plan on Sunday. I will bring a 6 a 12 and my bass.
I can also do some extra crap after laying main tracks like clarinet, flute, whatever. For now, we'll keep it simple. Plan on releasing mid-December.
Choose 10 songs. We'll weed through them together.
Wow. . . Kay... um, do you even know where I live?
And, do you have any guitar sheets or anything with chords or lyrics written on it? Or hopefully you just remember how to play stuff cuz you were always better at that than me.
It's all happening so fast.
Some of us are very excited
Once upon a time I had all of our songs typed up on the computer with lyrics and chords. Then the whole fire thing.
I have some tapes, and if need be, I can hold your hand through them. Just kidding.
I'll bring the tape Kathryn has and we'll go from there. We can start with the ones we remember best and work backslide into the others, maybe slam out a new one. Maybe something about my blog being sweeter than yours or something.
Just thought of another one we HAVE to do: 'Trust Me'. That has to be my favorite. Maybe. I don't know.
I was thinking about who wrote what. It doesn't really matter, I was just curious so I did R, B, and R&B. Just the words, not music since we each write our own parts. Occasionally, Ray wrote my parts because my guitar skills were limited and I didn't have an acoustic bass. He did my lines for at least 1,6, and 8, maybe more.
R 1)Is she the lady
B 2)Sleep, Loving Angel (the one I wrote for Rhonda)
R&B 3)Struggle
R 4)Those Days are Gone
R 5)Another Song about rain
R 6)The Ex song
B 7)Wrong Questions
R 8)The one that goes "I can't help it if people are watching all the things that I'm doing..."
R 9)Swirling Snow
R 10)Doctor Joe ...maybe?
R 11)Angry Children
R 12)Trust Me
R&B 13)To All Our Friends 1&2
14)Lullaby
Ray seems to have written a crapload more than me :(
I did 2 and Ray did 9. What gives with that! We did 2 together. Seems like so many more.
I remember when we wrote The Struggle. We were on the way back from the woodswoods and we were passing an envelope back and forth writing stuff down and scratching stuff off. It was really raining hard that day. I think Jamie was in the car, too.
To All Our Friends 1 was written in the basement on Division. I had done the crappy music already (obvious due to the chords used: Am, E, C, G my guitar skills weren't so slick). I remember the chorus being about 3 times longer at first and then we hacked it apart and stripped it so it wasn't boring and repetitive. Ray wrote Part 2 afterward and played it for me. He wasn't quite done playing it when I started playing the chorus of Part 1 and we liked the way it sounded.
Ray probably remembers it different, but he's wrong.
Brian, time to make an actual blog entry about all of this instead of just perpetually fattening up your comments.
My Mom, I'm pretty sure, has a whole Wintergreen file on her computer with lyrics to ALL the songs we ever even attempted - including dozens we wrote and never played cuz they were too stinky. I wonder if she or Fritz could bundle the text into one file and email it?
Madre? Que paso?
Um. I will look...but remember we have crashed about 4 computers since then...I will talk to Fritz about this too because he backs up all our files. He is working 12's so hang on...I will have to catch him on the fly! As I am sure you know I would love to help. How much did you say you were paying?! When you get rich from sales....I would like liner credit, too : )
hmmmm... so it begins.
Everybody wants their name on the credits page.
Hey Ray, you should do a cover that has our outrageously long list of names printed in the background like the old cover you made. It had the lyrics printed in light green as the background. You could do that with all the 'Thank You' names.
Or we could write a clever tune that includes them all. I'm thinking something like:
She likes Barbra Streisand and she probly likes Cher...
Or: ...Got a thing on his neck, could be a corpuscle...
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