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View Poll Results: How do you primarily communicate with your band between practices/gigs? | |
Telephone
|    | 8 | 33.33% | |
Email
|    | 9 | 37.50% | |
Public or Private Forum
|    | 2 | 8.33% | |
Yahoo Group
|    | 2 | 8.33% | |
We rarely speak between practices/gigs
|    | 2 | 8.33% | |
Other
|    | 1 | 4.17% |
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11-14-2006, 10:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Danbury, CT | | | 21st Century Band Communications?
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I have a few related questions for anyone interested in answering.
1. Do you play in a band, or are involved in a project where all the members have access to and make use of the internet (that you know of)?
2. Do you use the internet to maintain/augment your internal band/project communications between the times you actually meet? If so, what do you use? Email, public or private forums, etc...
3. If you do use it, does it actually work for you? What are the biggets benefits and problems of the method you use?
I ask this because I use some private forums for my various groups and I was curious what methods are currently in use by others and if it works well for them? |
11-14-2006, 11:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | We actually talk to one another: some times phone, sometimes in real life 
pros - We actually talk to one another 
cons - human memory is in use |
11-14-2006, 11:21 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | I don't often talk with the drummer or one of the guitar players, I often text message/call/talk in person to the other guitar player...
I was also involved in a project with a guy in Germany--we talked on yahoo IM and played together over ninjam online, so we haven't even seen what each other looks like  |
11-14-2006, 11:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Always phone for me. Occasionally an IM from a member saying he's gonna be late, but always phoned.
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11-14-2006, 11:31 PM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | | generally, the telephone. emails are used mostly to send ideas or rough mixes of songs. we do use the net to market, to a certain extent (check out our myspace in my sig!), but also the phone... depends on how the gig is to be booked.
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11-15-2006, 01:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: forest hills ny | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Pruitt I have a few related questions for anyone interested in answering.
1. Do you play in a band, or are involved in a project where all the members have access to and make use of the internet (that you know of)?
2. Do you use the internet to maintain/augment your internal band/project communications between the times you actually meet? If so, what do you use? Email, public or private forums, etc...
3. If you do use it, does it actually work for you? What are the biggets benefits and problems of the method you use?
I ask this because I use some private forums for my various groups and I was curious what methods are currently in use by others and if it works well for them? |
1) yea we all chat on aim for the most part, we are all 17-21 so the internet is big 
2)well we use aim, its easier to have a group talk then on a phone, and we are all usualy to busy to all get together during the day.
3)yea, works great
a pro would be, we are all at home and relaxed at our desks and can think straight
a con would be that if everybody has a point, everybody talks at the same time and there are large paragraphs to read lol
edit:
oh, i put "other" because u didnt put in "aim" for an option
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11-15-2006, 06:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Glasgow, Scotland | | | Combination of email, text messaging and the occasional phone call.
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11-15-2006, 07:27 AM
| | Poop? | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | Both guitarists and singer live together in an apartment, and refuse to get the internet.. I don't even think they have a computer. Drummer (currently) is at school 2 hours away from here, and I don't even has his number. An example of the one big problem with my band: we didn't practice for 7 weeks, including gigging at one point. Which is why I'm looking to join another band, and keep that one on the backburner. |
11-15-2006, 07:32 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by velvetkevorkian Combination of email, text messaging and the occasional phone call. | Yep, that sums it for me too.
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11-15-2006, 08:20 AM
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11-15-2006, 08:47 AM
|  | Knowledge is Good - Emile Faber | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Pleasant Hill, CA | | | Once you get the Luddites onboard, Yahoo groups are really useful. The calendar and collective messaging make a lot of the logistical stuff easy to deal with. You can also store files and limited mp3s.
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11-15-2006, 08:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Windsor, Ont. | | | Either telepathy or styrofoam cup and string.
Sometimes smoke signals.
if all else fails there's always Morse code
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