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

[Gertjan]

Nice work. That fan journal sounds like a plan

I've added your site to the links at livefanclub.nl. As wannabe amateur concert photographer, I'll certainly try to take pictures when Live plays in The Netherlands.

[FishOutaWater]

Thank you everyone for your support of the idea. And you have given me some good ideas. I will try to set up an email subscribe button so that people can get notified when there are updates. And I will post updates on Twitter. I will look into the Facebook idea.

I keep thinking about the Fan Journal idea. I want to make it like a series of articles, like Rolling Stone articles. Like an online magazine about Live. Everyone here has a unique experience or insight or memory about the band. Have you ever wanted to be a journalist about your favorite band? Here are some examples:

Dancing Queen could write a Journal article on the Secret Samadhi cover art.

OutToDry could write about the importance of TGF in reviving CCP's passion for music and the quality and relevance of TGF.

Ed could write about the unique experience of being a Live fan in Russia.

Good Pain could write about his experience when he was 13 years old, seeing Live in the MJ era in a bar in Ohio.

Gertjan has a ton of experience as a leader of the Live fan community in the Netherlands. God knows what he could write about the Live Netherlands phenomenon.

I would like to see if Jimmy lang could write something about he discovered Live through Rush and his early days of creating and supporting the internet presence.

The Thrill could write whatever he wants.

Dan could write about what it is like to run the number one fan message board in the Live world.

I would love to eventually get an interview or rehearsal access for the blog and some decent photo access.

These are just some ideas off the top of my head. I know I missed some very important people in that list. I just wanted to throw out some ideas off the top of my head.