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| Slim Warrior |
Slim Warrior, Redzone, DJ-Jenns Performing Musician MagazineWell the January issue is out and the feature is out with all of us!4 whole Pages.. wooohooooooo. All about Performing and music in SL Its available in all main Uk newsagents.. WHSmiths is prolly the easiest place to buy it if you are in the UK. Ill try to find someone who can scan it in and post it up. 
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| Doubledown Tandino |
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| Slim Warrior |
Edited and see posts below
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| Slim Warrior |
Part oneThis is part one
Part 2 
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Part 3
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| ticious |
Woooo Hoooo, Slimmie!!! Excellent article 
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| vonjohin |
Wonderful! I don't think I've seen that pub in the US, though if we look hard enough we can find Sound on Sound at the Barnes and Noble or Guitar Center.
EDIT - Having read it all, I guess the only thing I'm not on board with is the part about making money in world. There were ticketed events, though surely not the norm, that had worked when the article was written (long before my two ticketed shows). And when I came into SL last July, it was at the urging of a friend who was making a very substantial living on the side doing shows in Second Life. He introduced me to several other musicians, none of whom actually are posting in here, who make a real nice amount of money playing, and I learned the ropes from them to put myself in a similar situation now. Its really only the last paragraph on page 101 I take issue with. Overall though, this was a wonderful article, but the biggest difference between it and the EM article that Zak wrote was the slant on making money as a musician, well, that and an ocean between the publishers. |
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| Komuso Tokugawa |
Nice article. I also don't agree with everything it says though.
I agree with Von above, this is way more than a platform to pimp your cd(s) [ie: another slot in the integrated marketing mix] and is more in line with being a live performance medium with all that implies earning wise [ongoing arguments/discussions about SL venue scene aside]. In fact I strongly subscribe to the fact that it may be a much smarter strategy for an indie musician building a fan base to give the music away as a marketing tool. Quality merchandise and bundled value added packages can always be created later when you have traction. I think I have to correct the statement by Slim "I created a virtual concert in SecondLife, MetaJams...." , in the interests of keeping the facts straight. I distinctly recall it was a few of us sitting around jawing about this jamming concept [done firstly by Astrin and Moe fwiw], and in point of fact it was me who came up with the name Metajams to tag it. As an aside, although I did not know it at the time, Metajams webdomain is owned by well known music/artist web brand Broadjams.com. A number of jams were done using the old daisy chaining method, and I personally "MetaJammed" sets with Cylindrian Rutabaga, Melvin Took, Ricardo Sprocket, and Frogg and Jaycatt - including rehearsing extensively with them. Along with the sets designed by Attim, poster by circe, loaction by Slim, I thought it was more very much a team effort myself;-) We decided to have it at Menorca as that was where we were discussing it at the time. Total tips came to somewhere like L$48K if I recall, split evenways. TRAVEL / ESCAPES | November 3, 2006 It's My (Virtual) World ... chatting and levitating. "Actually, the only place I went where few people danced (besides the academic discussion of genocide in the freakishly earnest Neufreistadt) was Saturday nights Metajams party, at which eight live musicians performed in a single audio stream. The crowd stood mostly stock still as Ricardo Sprocket, Komuso Tokugawa and others played a medley of folk-slash-indie rock tunes that were easily as good as anything Ive heard in New York clubs. Better yet: no cover charge." And yes, there is room for free entry gigs and cover charge gigs in this new performance medium. Actually they had to stay stock still as we had 100 people logged in and performance was maxed out on the server! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03...5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin |
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| Slim Warrior |
I agree Kom, and I’m glad you pointed it out. I’ve yet to read One article in a media publication that is able to get every single detail correct, esp when talking with those who don’t understand SL in particular. I have come to the realisation that unless one writes the article yourself there are bound to be details that are left out or put in the hands of an enthusiastic Editor who needs to keep it to a certain length. Menorca too was not the first Island for music events, Muse opened a week before Menorca and of course venues like Sunset Jazz and The Lily pad were not even given a mention that I distinctly remember talking about plus a lot of musicians.. *sigh* such is the nature of media coverage as you well know. I do think it was a great way to raise the profile of Music in Secondlife as far as the reading public is concerned despite the mistakes, but hopefully this will continue to benefit all involved in the music community as it grows as will more and more publication and articles about musician and bands who use SL. 
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| vonjohin |
Music editors make mistakes. The EM article's editor got hold of the sidebar I wrote and changed the compensation I said I made to "Linden dollars" so that the sentence actually made no sense. I said something like "I make about $10-15,000 Lindens per show, which is $35-40US, and they changed it to read I was making $40 Lindens a show. Oh well.
When I wrote that, it was actually an email to the editor. Unlike Zak, who at the time I didn't even know was commissioned to write the article, I was simply replying to the EM editor's questions for an upcoming article. I thought it was being written by him or somebody else at EM, had no idea they'd hired Zak to write it. So when my email turned up almost verbatim as a sidebar to the whole article, with those few weird changes like the one above, I was actually surprised (and happy). I suspect Slim didn't see this before it printed either. Like her, I'm just happy they got the majority of it right and did a story at all.
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| Komuso Tokugawa |
That's the media I guess...never let the facts get in the way of a good story!
Especially since I've also been on the receiving end of a couple of selective misquotes and rewritten interviews! |