Saturday, 27 October 2012

Aaaargh! It's all too much!

Bloody hell! I forgot about the blog!  No one's reading, no one's reading, no one's reading, sod it, give up, someone's reading! Hello John.
Morecambe, last post, four years ago! Trouble is, keeping up this information stream is hard work, and to what end? I had this grand idea of starting a MySpace (remember?) for each of my musical projects from the last thirty-something years. So I did, and I uploaded recordings from each one. And made them all friends with each other, and other people joined in, a bit. Then MySpace got a bit shit, and looked like history, and no one else joined in any more because I'd probably saturated my audience. So I got rid of them all. No one has banged on my door demanding their return.
I have a Facebook page for music and a personal one too. I'd quite happily give up the personal one but I feel I need to sustain it for the sake of the music one. The music page has music you can listen to, details of gigs, and automatically updated my Twitter account. Oh, and it's linked to ReverbNation, and possibly Soundcloud. You can listen to my songs on last.fm if you want, assuming that still exists. I might have a We7 account with songs on too, can't remember. My YouTube channel has videos to go with demo versions of new songs, and links from other people who video me when I'm out and about. I've got a web site. Two e-mail accounts. Subscriptions to Facebook music groups, and a Yahoo group somewhere or other. What's it all for? Who cares? Who is taking any notice? I suspect that a normal human conversation with a few people on selected occasions might well be an adequate replacement for all this online information overload.
Then again. Went to a venue a couple of months ago, set up, got a request for 'Silly Alibis'. They saw a poster, checked me out. Another venue about the same time, this couple started asking me when I was going to play some original material, they didn't come to hear covers, they've downloaded my whole album, love it, play it in the car all the time (is that the only place we use CDs now, the car?).
So I suppose I'll keep updating everything as best I can for the sake of the few people who might be interested, or that stumbler-upon of my stuff...StumbleOn? Isn't that something....

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