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Bibi Ballinger · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: The Music Bus

Some of you may wonder what or who The Music Bus is since it's getting some visibility in the forum now. I just own the actual VW bus so when you hear about Bibi's Bus, it just means I drove it over. The group, started by Creola, Soundcircel and I, followed quickly by DD, a couple of months ago is a growing group of volunteers who help new musicians coming into SL. There are lots of places new artists can get the help they need, this was a place for me to add my name to those of you who work so hard for SL Music. Creola, Sound and DD have been the real work horses in the group and I do my best to help them but everyone listed and not listed in the group has come from a place of hard work and time spent on building the music community Slim is one of our biggest supporters and is why you see us on the deck outside DD's store at Tivona. Silas has helped two musicians in two days, giving his time and patience after his own exhausting performances. Nancy Lei has built a campground at Merry Pranksters for artists. The list goes on.

As we see the quality of musicans coming into SL grow, we don't want to lose any to frustration or disappointment because they don't know who to contact or where to go for help. Some of us have mentioned The Music Bus on our 61 front page and when we get an inquiry, we direct people to the forum first and then to other links such as Sally's flickr pix to see what it looks like in SL music, Slim's appearance on British TV, you tube, my space, etc. Mostly we try to encouage people to go very slow and read and learn before they decide this is what they want to do.

You know how much it takes to set up your home studio, create a persona, have some $$$ to buy things, find a spot to call home where you can change your clothes and practice performing, find instruments, animations, start a fan group, navigate a stage, get sound checks and advice, create links to your websites, and on and on. We invite everyone to join us in building an army of volunteers of all sorts-musicians, techies, radio stations, venues, scriptors, builders, land owners who can offer an temporary haven, anyone who has anything to do with music. Hopefully it will also become a pool of resources for venue owners who need a musician or a musician looking for open slot to play. Ideas are welcome as this will surely be something that needs to grow and change according to the needs of the community. Some of you won't have room for another group but rest assured, your help will be gladly appreciated in any case.

We are working on other ideas to get the word out about SL music across the grid. We hope to be taking music to some of the unusual and beautiful places around the grid soon.
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Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1175 Location: Rhode Island

That makes me sound like a saint, Bibi. We can't have that. I was just doing it to hit on you Smile

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Sally Silvera · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject:

she´s my hero you know
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Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1175 Location: Rhode Island

Yep, I know. She's a wonderful lady who's doing a great thing over there.
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Bibi Ballinger · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:57 am Post subject:

and Sally is my hero! I ain't no lady. The more Silas help, the better!! Wink

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Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1175 Location: Rhode Island

Both of you are most certainly ladies and I appreciate you coming to my gigs, especially when you go to so many others.
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Zak Claxton · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 2008 Location: Podul/33/243/154/

Right on Bibi and everyone involved!

Question: if I wanted to use one of my two venues from time to time as a "do it yourself Open Mic" place, would that be something that would be good for your group? Like, if someone wanted to do a show and just needed a stage and a stream, I'm happy to offer both on occasion. Let me know.
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