I’m gonna get on the google
OK so without giving away the whole cow and chicken basically i’ve spent the last week or maybe just like three days working on getting us on Google more prevalently?? (sp?) Hey kids that’s how we used to denote that we didn’t know how to spell something online. We’d go, “Are you a lesbean? (sp?)” like “How do you spell that? I think that’s how you spell that?” We used to do lots of stupid stuff on the internet
My AIM username was bobjoneslives . I have no fucking clue why i was obsessed with the name bob jones. It’s like a distant memory now but I think it had something to do, not with the churchy preacher bob jones, but just like a character me and my friend kinda developed when we were 9 or 10 years old. It hurts my head to think back that far. I don’t remember much from childhood friends, just names mostly, but for some reason I can always very vividly remember the layout of their houses. It’s like I can’t always see my friends’ face but I can always walk through his house.
what other fun things did we do on the internet? we did a lot of this actually: just typing into the void and reading into the void. I remember getting on this website a lot:
Not to go full grandpa mode but when I was a kid and we were trying to book shows and tours, we did have some decent freakin DIY indie resources that I don’t think are really around anymore. With the buyout of Bandcamp, I can’t think of much in the way of DIY that’s totally independent and also widely used. But I’m pretty new to this now I guess. I had been out of the DIY game for a long time.
But we had a great resource with myspace, and I feel like Instagram has taken that place, of a stratosphere for bands to message each other and network and mostly just book tours. We still are doing that on instagram it seems like, but one cool thing about myspace was… ok well two cool things about myspace:
Coding!! who didn’t love fucking with HTML
2. They had a built in embedded music player!!!!!! Wow it seems so fucking simple doesn’t it????
Facebook and Instagram don’t host music!! Whyyyyyyyyyy oh well i don’t really care that much. I just want you to go to my instagram and hear my music without having to go somewhere else and sign up for another stupid thing. Who’s got the time!!!
We also had another really cool independent site which I think worked better than Bandcamp as a streamer, but probably not as well as a money maker for artists. That was mf purevolume.com heck yeah that’s how I found a LOT of bands. Fear Before the March of Flames comes to mind immediately. I remember exactly where I was, sitting at a desk in my friend’s house when one of my friends pulled up a pure volume page he had discovered just kinda purely by chance. So much of that early digital seems random. How did they find us? How did we find them? We must have been huuuuungry.
kinda looked like this. i censored it just cuz i don’t want some candian metal band mad at me s
I guess all this to say, I’ve recently discovered that with a little elbow grease and some basic marketing principles you can actually do a lot with a little. $50 online is actually a lot of money for advertising when you’re a small band. It’s pretty cool how much you can do with just like the money you make from one gig. Cheers bye bye