Please join me at livefanjournal.com Options

[FishOutaWater]

I set up a new website devoted to Live. The pages on my site include:

Blog - I would like to write a well-written, insightful blog where I will analyze Live albums, songs, lyrics, concerts, Live history and other news.

Galleries - I have updated all of my Live photos into galleries and I hope to take many more concert photos in the future. I would also like to solicit photos from other concert photographers for the site. Jimmy - are you reading this? I sent you an email.

Fan Journal - Here is where you come in! I would like people to submit Fan Journal entires to the site by email. The Fan Journals should include things like thoughtful, well written journalistic pieces, recollections of Live experiences, insights and reflections, concert reviews, etc. Some of the best thoughts expressed by our message board members get lost over the years deep in the pages of this message board. I want those great thoughts memorialized in a Fan Journal where they can be found well into the future. Like a time capsule. There are so many people here with literally decades of knowledge and experience. Let's showcase that! And new fans who will hopefully discover Live in the future will get to read insights about the band that only hard core fans like those on this message board could possibly express.

News - I will try to keep a chronological news feed of all Live news on this page.

Twitter - I started the feed @livefanjournal on Twitter to promote Live and inform the Twitter community about Live. http://www.twitter.com/livefanjournal

Please participate and help me make the site worth-while. I hope it helps to promote Live. I hoe that it informs and entertains.

[edit by dangum to update URL of website]

This post has been edited by dangum: Sep 1 2012, 12:41 am

[+Ed+]

where freaks talk,

Why do you insert Where Freaks Talk into this list? It was created 1 January 2001, there was nothing wrong with having a forum for the Dutch community, was there?

[+AllOverMe+]

Why do you insert Where Freaks Talk into this list? It was created 1 January 2001, there was nothing wrong with having a forum for the Dutch community, was there?

Was WFT a forum for the Dutch community? Before FOL i wanted to become a member of WFT too, but it seems there's no active member over there.

[+Ed+]

Was WFT a forum for the Dutch community? Before FOL i wanted to become a member of WFT too, but it seems there's no active member over there.

Not anymore


Damn, Badman, I counted. You were 13 when WFT launched.

[FishOutaWater]

I know that some of what I am going to write in this message will be redundant, but I want to address some of the questions about why this site should exist. And I realize that I may have bit off more than I can chew. I just felt motivated to do something to promote Live and I am hoping that if LIve goes out on a tour again soon, I may have many more photos to share and I wanted to share them somewhere dedicated to Live. I taliked to Jimmy about maybe getting some of his photos on a site with mine, and then I ran off and put this thing together quickly.

I have nothing but the utmost respect for Dan and this site, and I do not want to compete in any way with this message board. And Dan does an excellent job of updating news and tour dates. I debated about whether to have a "News" page on that other site at all. Maybe I will eliminate that page and just funnel all news through the Twitter feed (which gets recorded on the blog page sidebar as well). And just like you, this message board is my main source for news and rumors.

I did want to do something different.

First of all - Photos. Thus far, I post my photos that I share here on FLickr so I can share them in this message board. I was also putting them on www.imagesbytodd.com. I wanted to do something dedicated just to Live. I am hopeful that I will get to shoot photos of a dozen new Live shows over the next two years and I wanted to put them on this site dedicated to Live. I would also like to post fan photos and hopefully I can get Jimmy Lang to share some of his stuff on there. And ideally, I might get a chance to go shoot a rehearsal or something like that to give fans a behind the scenes look.

Second - Fan Journal. I want that to be different than a message board. I want people to research a subject and write carefully about a facet of Live about which they have a unique perpestive. I want that to include lengthy concert reviews with pictures too. I hope there will be a relatively small, but useful series of articles or Journal Entries. Like an online series of magazine articles. I will introduce the Fan Journal Entries in the blog as well.

Third - Twiitter. I follow Live and its members through Google alerts, on Twitter, and through this message board. I don't think there is a Twitter feed that covers all things Live, other than the band's official Twitter feed, which on infrequently posts official things. Plus, I can regulalry post photos of Live over the Twitter feed.

Finally, a blog. As you know, I sometimes like to write lengthy tomes about Live on this message board. I wanted to create a place where I can do that in a more thoughtful way. I wanted to blog about a topic about which I am passoinate and somewhat of an amateur expert.

[FishOutaWater]

It took me some time, but I was able to get an Email subscription notification system inplemented on the Blog page. So you can get notified of updates through Twitter, the RSS feed through an RSS Reader, or through email notification.

I started reseraching my first Blog post that I am working on. "The 'Ed' Of an Era: How Live's Singer Changed From Kowalczyk to Shinn"