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		<title>An Indie Musician&#8217;s Life: 003</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;   Indie Web Presence Basics 101 Lesson 1. I had planned to discuss Twitter &#38; Online radio for this issue. However, I was under the weather for a good part of the week with an upper respiratory illness, and my energy level just hasn&#8217;t been up to snuff. I haven&#8217;t even been able to Twitter much this week &#8230;and my apologies to those we work with through that medium. Instead, I will begin  &#8221;covering the basics&#8221; for building a sustainable, enduring indie presence on the web. I will also review, &#8220;Shine&#8221; by John Scalici&#8217;s Juka Tribe. I firmly believe that an indie artist should start and end with hir OWN website, with hir OWN domain name. Make sure it is maintained. Make sure it is easy to navigate, too. One&#8217;s own domain name that is well maintained, is something that the artist can brand into hir other merchandise, cd designs, flyers, social sites and other points of contact; both online and offline. One of the problems that bands/artists have to deal with is to create something unique or that stands out enough to ultimately find and appeal to an audience. The most direct way to do this is to start with one&#8217;s own site; where creative and content control are most absolute. For doing so, I recommend combining &#8220;GoDaddy&#8221; and &#8220;WordPress.&#8221; For around $60.00 per year GoDaddy provides 10 Gig of server space, 10 SQL accounts, and unlimited bandwidth. Even with domain registration costs or some of the extra bells and whistles (i.e extra email accounts....]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Idiosyncratic Transmissions Episode:20</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A big howdy do to Idiosyncratic Transmissions for playing &#8220;Forever Away&#8221; on Episode 20 of their fantastic podcast. Thanks! http://www.idiosyncratictransmissions.com Podcast: http://www.idiosyncratictransmissions.com/wp-content/uploads/IdioSync20.mp3]]></description>
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		<title>An Indie Musician&#8217;s Life: 002</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;   Previous Issue I suppose it is time to write my first real post in this new endeavor. In this &#8220;issue&#8221; I will tell you about a couple of great sites that offer great deals on printing. We&#8217;ll also talk about QR codes, what they are and how to use them. Additionally, I&#8217;ll tell you about a couple of local Birmingham scene builders that deserve your attention, and we&#8217;ll close by taking a listen to &#8220;Southern Circus&#8221; by Royal and Toulouse. &#8230;Let the fun begin. Print Media For building a local presence, one still needs good print media. Fliers and postcards advertising a show still play an important role in letting your local music lovers know about you. Besides, flyer making is an art form in itself. I like really BIG fliers.  The best place I&#8217;ve found for getting them done is a website called Short Run Posters. They offer a full color 18&#8243; x 24&#8243; poster for as low as $2.97. The only &#8220;catch&#8221; is, for that price, they want to put their own company branding on the back. If you just can&#8217;t live with the thought of them doing that, you can get them to leave it off by adding an extra $2.00 to the price. However, I don&#8217;t think its worth it. The way I see it, the more people who use them, the more likely they are  to stay in business with these insanely good deals.  If 18&#8243; x 24&#8243; is just too small for your own taste, they also....]]></description>
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		<title>An Indie Musician&#8217;s Life: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;   &#160; Introductions, All Around &#8230;and Salutations, Too! For a while now, I&#8217;ve been procrastinating about how to best put this blog to GOOD use.  I&#8217;ve decided to make it about the life of an indie musician. They say to &#8220;write about what you know about.&#8221; Well, I should know a hell of a lot about the life of an indie musician. I have lived it for all of my adult life, &#8230;and then some. So that is what we&#8217;re going to do. I plan to schedule the posts to publish just after midnight (C.S.T.) each Sunday. I say &#8220;plan to&#8221; because we all know what they say about the &#8220;best laid plans.&#8221; I will be sharing anecdotes, and observations from daily life. Sometimes I may rant a little, but I&#8217;ll do my damnedest to keep the politics and religion and the media etc. etc. etc. down to a dull roar &#8230;at least on THIS blog. However, there will be tangents about philosophy, cosmology, books I&#8217;ve read or am reading, movies that have inspired me, overheard conversational snippets and such; as those things directly feed into my own creative process. Perhaps we&#8217;ll even put some old ghosts to rest, as well. I want to discuss creative techniques and methodologies as they pertain to writing music, lyrics and life in general. I am eager for other writers and creators to share their ideas, insights, inspirations and techniques with the other readers and myself. I will be sharing links to resources that benefit both....]]></description>
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		<title>The Drum Lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;   The Drum Lesson By Bobby Shiflett &#160; Two or three years back, I was hanging out with a marvelous drummer named Shea Heatherly and we dropped by a local drum store so that Shea could get some sticks for an upcoming gig. While we were there, Shea was at the cymbal rack, sampling the wares. Near the bottom of the rack, he came across this old, tarnished looking cymbal and he picked that one up and hit it. It had the most beautiful resonating timbre, and its sound shimmered through the room.  Shea asked the sales clerk, who doubtlessly viewed himself as a serious drummer, what he thought about that cymbal. The clerk replied, in a noticeably condescending manner, &#8220;Oh, I would never play a cymbal like that. It is only worth about $80.00.&#8221;  Shea merely replied, &#8220;Oh, I see&#8221; and made no effort to continue the conversation &#8230;No doubt that Shea did see. The difference in what the two drummers valued was startling from my point of view. After we left, Shea and I discussed what had just transpired, and he told me that he never really could get behind buying a &#8220;drum kit,&#8221; since each drum, each cymbal, each piece of hardware is unique; and it is rare that a mass-manufactured drum set will have the qualities that will maximize the drummer&#8217;s individual tonal style. Each drum and piece of percussion &#8230;indeed&#8230; each and every musical instrument has a mood that it evokes, and a real musician should....]]></description>
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