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Don't "like" me, Pay me. The thoughts of Chairman MJEB on Social Media

Dion W, our friend who helps us make videos once famously said 'it's show business darling'

I've been watching the social media stuff with interest for some time. Touted as the way for Bands to reach their Audience.

Let's see, which one shall we invest our efforts in?

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It seems reasonable to act in accord with what your learning leads you to.

If your physics does not describe the universe as you interact with it, check your math.

If your bucket does not hold water, get a new bucket.

Like what we do? Think it has utility in your universe? Has a useful function? Makes you feel better? Does something useful?

Don't 'Like' Us.

Pay us.

Buy a Download, pay for a stream, come to a gig, buy a CD, give me a Dollar.

That's all I got to say on social media.

SC10 and SC11 unexpectedly heading towards completion

Sooo....I put the Desk Mixes into an order.

We've got 26 tracks. (well....one track is still a guide)

At our preferred 13 an album, that's 2 albums.

SC10 is tracked. It needs a little mixing and mastering.

SC11 needs 1 more track from Brother Bill recorded. For the other 12 it's overdubs, Lyrics (OMG), solo's and assorted other stuff.

The plan is:

Finish SC10 and release it. Also name it.

Finish SC11 and release it. It has a working title.

Release the two of them as a single CD package.

It's even got a name.

What's peculiar is that we haven't cleared the song backlog, there are still more waiting to be recorded.

If there's ever been a better time for those who like to make stuff, I'm not aware of it :-)

Road trip this weekend, listening to the song order. Thinking of what to fix, to change, to add.

Good times.

Stormcellar at the Bombala RSl sat 14th April and Cooma Rotary Markets Sun 15 April

We're at the Bombala RSL on Saturday 14th and Cooma Markets 10am-midday on Sunday. Road Trip! Road Trip!

oops we're there. Holy cow we've stumbled into albums 10 and 11.

Thanks to Ben's hard work, and the strange outcomes of just getting on with it, we're at 13 tracks for SC10 and 12 for SC11.

This is 'in production', so there's many a slip twixt cup and disc, to mangle an aphorism.

Without any real sense of travelling, we've reached another milestone.

I spent some time putting all the tracks into one listening bucket. two very different sets of sounds.

In production terms there are several months worth of elapsed time to be expected before we can get it finished.

5D is now 5D + Beyond 5D. Needs some edits, some fixes and tweaks, mixing, ordering, mastering.

SC11 is now up to 12 out a target 13 (yeah dig it. 11 12 13. Cool).

I now have desk mixes for 13 and 12 tracks respectively. I have them in VLC in 2 play lists.

Mr Wizard wants to release it as a double.

Freedom's what you do with it.

Me? I gotta do artwork.

Also picking names for the releases would be good.

video from todays flamenco session

Despite my streaming woes I got this assembled.

Technology resists, recording day, pleasantly exhausted.

Wow.

On the music front, brilliant.

On the live streaming front? Mucho Fail.

As a result I didn't get as much video as I had hoped at all (yarg)

What I did get I'll post.

What an amazing day. Did get some streaming out to FB. A bit meh. Tried to youtube. Eh.

Twitch? Fail.

5-6 apps? Fail.

I'm really glad I got the testing done, and I guess there's nothing like real world testing to show that the best laid plans of OH MY GOD WORK YOU BLOODY PROGRAM....ummm..

patience?

Rut/Jono/Jesus/Ben, muchas gracias. Who knew Ben is fluent AF in Spanish?

We tracked 3 songs for SC11 plus got 2 versions of Brave With Your Heart.

Cheers to CB for joining us for the Local Influences project.

Oh we did a gig last night too didn't we?

Yeah. I guess I'll write about in a bit.

zzzz....zzzzzz......