www.Freaks4Live.com, Website launched Options

[figure8]

to those who are signing up people with FAKE emails....YOU SUCK!
I own 4 websites and could use 4,768 email address's from my members!!!

I hope you are kicked out of the contest scumbags!

Sounds like a plan. As for me, I will give you the lead. I just want to hear the unreleased track.

This post has been edited by figure8: Aug 26 2011, 4:57 am

[FishOutaWater]

Podcasts:

Do you know what I would LOVE to hear as a podcast? They could sell each one for $10 and I would buy them all. People can sell podcasts and make money on them, right? Here's what they should do...

They need to do a behind-the-scenes, story-telling podcast for each Live album from MJ through V. Chad, Chad and Pat need to sit in a room together and comment on each album and each song on the album. They could tell stories about the album and songs like Chad has done in his blog entires. How were the songs were written? Where were they recorded? What are the songs about? What do they like about the songs? Who did what on each song (GASP! Did CCP contribute to the songwriting process?!?!). I want a behind the scenes podcast of each album from MJ through V.

Has this ever been done by a band before? Wouldn't that be ground-breaking? Maybe other bands would follow the idea. This could start a trend. It would be like the bonus material on a Bluray DVD.

In terms of rights and royalties, they could do this right? They could pay royalties to Black Coffee? Or if they did it for free, it would be perfectly legal right? This would go far towards getting them noticed and would be a huge gift to the fans.

I feel strongly about this idea. I think they should do this.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Aug 26 2011, 8:44 am

[OutToDry]

send that idea over the fence good sir.

[FishOutaWater]

I don't know how to get to the other side of the fence. I've never been over the fence. I only know this side of the fence. What if I fall, or impale myself or rip my jeans climbing over? Seriously - I'm not on Facebook, how would one get an idea over the fence?

I forgot to make one part clear - I think that the podcasts should include the actual songs with the commentary in between them - if that is possible. I'm not sure how they can include actual recordings of songs on a podcast, but they've done it bofore and they are talking about putting other 90's grunge songs on a podcast. Isn't that gfiving away songs that people pay to download as singles on iTunes? I don't know how all of that works. If they can't put the songs on the podcast in between the commentary, maybe they could put excerpts? Or maybe no songs. But I am much more interested in hearing Live talk about Live albums and Live's career than I am in hearing them talk about other 90's bands.

If they did something like that - I would do it right, with a big announcement, a press release - and I would try to get it on Rolling Stone's website or Billboard or something.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Aug 26 2011, 9:19 am

[thefunkyredcaboose]

If they were selling them they wouldn't be able to play the awesome unreleased tracks that have now been promised.

I don't think they'll play anything on the podcast that they have the rights to release.

[World Dreamer]

I don't know how to get to the other side of the fence. I've never been over the fence. I only know this side of the fence. What if I fall, or impale myself or rip my jeans climbing over? Seriously - I'm not on Facebook, how would one get an idea over the fence?

I forgot to make one part clear - I think that the podcasts should include the actual songs with the commentary in between them - if that is possible. I'm not sure how they can include actual recordings of songs on a podcast, but they've done it bofore and they are talking about putting other 90's grunge songs on a podcast. Isn't that gfiving away songs that people pay to download as singles on iTunes? I don't know how all of that works. If they can't put the songs on the podcast in between the commentary, maybe they could put excerpts? Or maybe no songs. But I am much more interested in hearing Live talk about Live albums and Live's career than I am in hearing them talk about other 90's bands.

If they did something like that - I would do it right, with a big announcement, a press release - and I would try to get it on Rolling Stone's website or Billboard or something.

In addition it would be cool if they had guests that did the same. For example, Kevin Martin could come on and talk about one or two of the bigger Candlebox songs and tell some stories. They could probably score Grohl or something. I am guessing all these guys know each other or at least know someone who knows someone else. They could have Grohl ask *insert name here of famous artist* to come on an tell stories. Get artists to put a small link on their homepage to the podcast a week prior to them being on it.

For it to work it would need to have a lot of detail and depth. Like the story CT told about getting hammered and running into Grohl and Will.I.am - that is stuff that people, or at least me, find incredibly interesting. The public rarely hears stuff like that. We don't know what it is like to be a rock star. We don't know that life. The behind the scenes stuff, the REAL behind the scenes stuff, is very intriguing.

I must have read the response to the letter from this forum 100 times. The processes and stories behind the albums was incredible to me.

[FishOutaWater]

Chad Taylor is a larger than life, artistic, fully-human, rock star and fan of the world. Each time I've met him, and everything I've read from him on his blogs and tour diaries, etc. is like having a keg party with Sam Kinison, Jack Black, Keith Richards, Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, John Belushi, Tony Robbins and your crazy uncle. There is NO LIMIT to his creative and entrepreneurial spirit. He seizes everything he sees and believes in with gusto. Movies. Music. TV. His family. His fans. He is in th face all of that! The first time I met him, early in the morning after a show, he looked like he had a hang-over and hadn't slept. But when I approoached him, he grabbed me, introduced himself to me, and talked MY ear off about how excited he was about the weekends' events. This is a guy who flew off a stage, tore his quadricep muscle, dragged his injured body back on stage and finished out the song on his back, in pain, with sweat and dirt covering his body. It's rock n' roll. Look it up! This is a guy who goes through life a million miles and hour, in a hundred different directions, with his hair on fire. Does that mean that sometimes he shoots from the hip first and asks questions later? Has he told stories about on-tour antics and fights that he has taken back? Has he typed some heat-of-the-moment statements about Ed? Does he say and promise things that he can't or doesn't always deliver? Yes. Yes. Yes. And yes. But that's what I love about him. That's why I am his fan. It's rock n' roll, not some well-orchestrated marketing plan. I feel the same way about Patrick and Gracey, although I know less of them.

What's the point of all of this? That this is why I think it would be entertaining to get some podcast dialog out of these guys.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Aug 26 2011, 10:01 am

[World Dreamer]

Damn right, Fish. I have met him only once and he was just like you described.

[zmanpga]

Fish describes stuff as good as Taylor!!! gotta love um both!

[OutToDry]

Great posts Fish. Awesome stuff. Totally true. Buckle on the stomping boots...it's time for MUSIC!!! LIVE & TGF MUSIC!!!

[Pokey]

Hit the nail on the head fish! It's the spontaneity of CT that is great, not everything being a carefully marketed and orchestrated plan in order to make more money and sell more. It's about just putting who he is and what he loves out there. It feels completely genuine like there's no scripted or pre-prepared answers.

[dangum]

They need to do a behind-the-scenes, story-telling podcast for each Live album from MJ through V. Chad, Chad and Pat need to sit in a room together and comment on each album and each song on the album. They could tell stories about the album and songs like Chad has done in his blog entires. How were the songs were written? Where were they recorded? What are the songs about? What do they like about the songs? Who did what on each song (GASP! Did CCP contribute to the songwriting process?!?!). I want a behind the scenes podcast of each album from MJ through V.

Has this ever been done by a band before? Wouldn't that be ground-breaking? Maybe other bands would follow the idea. This could start a trend. It would be like the bonus material on a Bluray DVD.

Have you watched the documentary series called Classic Albums? Basically the show goes through a whole album and analyses it. The producer of the album has the master multi-track tapes and talks about the recording and the individual instruments and the recording process. Usually band members are also present and they discuss the history of the song and the meaning behind it.
But in order for the whole story to be heard, the whole band should be involved. There's no point in going through the process and ommiting Ed.

[FishOutaWater]

Have you watched the documentary series called Classic Albums? Basically the show goes through a whole album and analyses it. The producer of the album has the master multi-track tapes and talks about the recording and the individual instruments and the recording process. Usually band members are also present and they discuss the history of the song and the meaning behind it.
But in order for the whole story to be heard, the whole band should be involved. There's no point in going through the process and ommiting Ed.

I love that show.

But if Ed was on the podcast, we would get blah, blah, blah like the bonus DVD interviews by the pool on the foreign version of SFBM where Ed dispensed finely-distilled marketing sound bites.

[SJN1279]

Hit the nail on the head fish! It's the spontaneity of CT that is great, not everything being a carefully marketed and orchestrated plan in order to make more money and sell more. It's about just putting who he is and what he loves out there. It feels completely genuine like there's no scripted or pre-prepared answers.

Sometimes that is his downfall though. How often does Chad Taylor make statements/promises that don't come to fruition?

[Merica]

Surely - and this isn't just a dig - no more/less than Ed?