Many metal bands drop-tune all 6 strings to make the music heavier.

Many metal bands drop-tune all 6 strings to make the music heavier.

OMG I'm amazed I understand this but that's exactly what my guitarist had to figure out and do when we played a set (an AWESOME set) of Motley Crue songs last year.

when we played a set (an AWESOME set) of Motley Crue songs last year

I think the AWESOME goes without saying. Hey, I have a song or two from your band on my iPod and want more. What does a guy have to do to get hooked up?

Hey, I have a song or two from your band on my iPod and want more. What does a guy have to do to get hooked up?

Compliments!!!

Send my your address to my profile addy and I'll send you our cd.

and I'm totally happy to give it to you but if you want to buy it:

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We are actually going into the studio (aka our friend's basement) this weekend to record 9 new songs!! When we're finished with that we're planning to make the whole new record downloadable from our website.

Yowza! That's some expensive shipping. Can I just give you the $10?

Yowza! That's some expensive shipping. Can I just give you the $10?

ooh I didn't know! (It's my friends' store and where I work on the weekends so I like to give them the bizness)

But, no! just give my your address and I'll send it to you. no $ needed!

ETA if you wanted to send my some music of your own in return that would be more than excellent!

In the NYT: The Album, a Commodity in Disfavor

I think the article in tommy's link may be premature in predicting the Death of the Album. If for no other reason than:

A decade ago, the music industry had all but stopped selling music in individual units.

In other words, a similar article could have been written 10 years (or indeed, even 5 years) ago about the Death of the Single. How can we predict where things will be 5 or 10 years down the road?

Particularly when the single isn't even dead, and people still buy them for the b-sides and the remixes. If it really had been dead for ten years, you wouldn't see the singles floating around, and yet you do. I was sceptical about the artcile, generally.

Besides, essentially what they are saying is the reverse of the death of the single, in that people are *more* willing to buy the single that they like. If people don't buy the album as much, well, it means (at least hopefully) that people will stop putting crap filler on albums and perhaps generate more creativity by figuring out ways to create longer-play sets of music that don't necessarily conform to the idea of the "album."

Question: How gigantic a dork am I if I've been dancing in my chair to the Pet Shop Boys and New Order for the last hour?

It's not my fault. It's spring, it's gorgeous out. I need happy dancing-like-no-one-is-watching music.