Beginnings

Howdy!

OK, I don't know if I have a whole lot of new stuff to write, but I want to get in the habit of writing.  

Today I sent out a mass invite to people from my former music-loving group.  If you're one of those people, welcome!  I got pretty burned out on the whole music thing for a while, but I'm realizing again that I really love finding new tunes, and radio sucks more than ever, so here I am.  

This is going to be a rambly post, but yeah, I'm in the mood to ramble..

I'm trying to figure out what the true value and niche this blog will have.  Like my former song of the day thing, I figured that it would mainly focus on getting little known or under appreciated artists heard by more people.  With myspace and other networking sites I think a lot of bands are probably reaching more ears, however there is still a lot of crap bands to wade through and if you aren't on myspace you aren't left with many options.  So, I think that the main goal can still be related to lesser known bands getting more exposure.

One of the things I didn't like that my former music deal (sorry if you don't know what the hell I'm talking about), was that the people on the list were only getting my opinion and my choices of music for the most part.  I'd sometimes hear from people who agreed or didn't agree with my assessment, but that was fairly rare, and it didn't have the "community" feel that I really wanted.  The nice thing about the blog thing will be that people can comment and see the comments of others.  Ideally this will lead to discussions about the music and maybe give the whole thing a more connected feel.  Maybe that's lame, we'll see.  :-)

Besides reviewing the albums of lesser known bands, I'm hoping that eventually the blog will get enough eyeballs that bands will want to have their stuff listened to and written about.  10 or so years ago I remember using a site that was chock full o' free mp3s but the catch was, the bands were unknowns and you had to listen to a lot of crap before you found anything worth saving.  I don't know if that site is still around, but I think that it would be cool if this thing could get big enough that we end up giving a band (unsigned, independent, etc.) their big break.  I know that might be a stretch, but I have to believe that there are plenty of bands who would be willing to give a song away if it helped them get known.  So, I guess besides reviewing signed, lesser known bands, I'm thinking that really underground stuff will have a place at the table as well.  

As I've probably mentioned before, I think it would be really cool if we had multiple people reviewing the stuff discussed on the site.  Obviously sites like amazon.com have multiple reviews and that's one way to get opinions, but the main problem I find with that is, how do you know the person knows what they are talking about?  With this site, hopefully the same reviewers will be reviewing each day/week, and that will help the general readers find a person that they usually agree with and will then lead to more satisfying music purchases.  Heh.  

OK, here's a problem.  Sometimes things that are mainstream rock as well.  Do we forget about them?  Do we need rules?!  (I think for a more consistent site/experience, maybe a few.)

Anyway, I think that I'm going to call it a night.  If you have any suggestions, questions, problems, etc. let me know.  Also, if you want to invite people to read these ramblings, feel free to invite them to join in the fun.  Also, if you have a particular genre you'd like to review or want to just review things in general, please let me know.  I can't guarantee that any of this will fly, but I think that it could be kind of fun.  I hope you agree!  I hope that things get rolling a bit more starting in Feb.  But you never know, it could be sooner.  (by the way, there's nothing on the sites at this point in time, but I've snagged the sites, yourearbuds.com and your-ear-buds.com.  If you're into website building and like to work for free, let me know.)

Rock on!