Thats our keyboard player. Doesn't have a computer or internet access. Can't just say, hey learn this song it's on youtube. Nope we have to burn him a cd.
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Your Band and Technology
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Thats our keyboard player. Doesn't have a computer or internet access. Can't just say, hey learn this song it's on youtube. Nope we have to burn him a cd.
I always get to a payphone as soon as I can after my beeper goes off. I call and have my office send a fax with gig info to Western Union who telegraphs it to Wells Fargo and they get it on the next stagecoach out. Of course, any sensitive messages or those that must get quickly through Injun Territory get sent Pony Express.
Come on! Computers are for big business and the government. Who ever heard of regular people with a computer. Heck, who has a separate room with air conditioning to keep the thing running? And wireless phones? Who are you, Dick Tracy???
Now get off my lawn!
Now get off my lawn!
Come on! Computers are for big business and the government. Who ever heard of regular people with a computer. Heck, who has a separate room with air conditioning to keep the thing running? And wireless phones? Who are you, Dick Tracy???
Now get off my lawn!
Humm ..I didn't know my bands manager posted here
I've had the band create a separate group for texting as it was becoming a distraction. Everything was in real-time. Every thought, every status check, every time. It was like a virus on my phone. I get the important ones, but they leave me out of the general chatter out of respect for my work schedule.
Full web presence too.
Sometimes the technology is too much.
Full web presence too.
Sometimes the technology is too much.
I found that my cell service improved dramatically when I got an iPhone. It's not just the towers that affect reception. The quality of your phone makes a big difference.
We are not all "wired up". Myself and the singer are the most "tekkie", so to speak. The others, not so much. For example; the drummer ordered sheet music for a couple songs from the music store. ORDERED SHEET MUSIC.
The rhythm guitarist likes his privacy and will only answer e-mails or messages if it is absolutely necessary, and generally nobody bothers him. We've been playing together for months and I don't even know his wife's name. He doesn't do Facebook, or texting, or anything like that.
The lead guitarist likes his privacy as well. To be fair, he's dealing with a terminally ill son so we don't talk to him often, usually just at practice. But he's somewhat wired in, you can get him either through e-mail or a FB message, etc....
The singer and I probably communicate the most with regards to band stuff, and we communicate relatively frequently.
But we do this thing, some people can remember when you had to do this;
We just pick up the phone and call each other if we have to talk about something.
Crazy, eh?
The rhythm guitarist likes his privacy and will only answer e-mails or messages if it is absolutely necessary, and generally nobody bothers him. We've been playing together for months and I don't even know his wife's name. He doesn't do Facebook, or texting, or anything like that.
The lead guitarist likes his privacy as well. To be fair, he's dealing with a terminally ill son so we don't talk to him often, usually just at practice. But he's somewhat wired in, you can get him either through e-mail or a FB message, etc....
The singer and I probably communicate the most with regards to band stuff, and we communicate relatively frequently.
But we do this thing, some people can remember when you had to do this;
We just pick up the phone and call each other if we have to talk about something.
Crazy, eh?
Good idea, I'll implement. I don't keep up with the tech stuff so I often don't know what is possible for very little money and effort
That assumes that I have an email account because I WANT to get important communciations via that medium. I would counter your statement by saying that if I have given a person several ways to get in touch with me and indicated the most preffered and effective method to do so, and that person wants to communicate something to me but NOT by my preferred medium, then it is the sender's responsibility, not mine.
In the actual event, this is all so meaningless anyway. Would you guys fire a killer drummer, or a smokin' front person, because you didn't like that they did not respond to emails promptly? All other things being equal, it is such a non issue.
Nope, everyone who comes to my house has difficulty regardless of phone type or network.
I do agree that some phones and some networks are better than others but non work reliably in my house.
Here in the UK the phone networks claim to cover something like 97% of the country, what they really mean is 97% of the population so the towns are very well covered and the rural areas take pot luck. There is no financial incentive to cover the last 3% so they don't.
We have a drummer and a keyboard player that take forever to respond to emails or text messages or if they even respond at all. The singer and myself do all of the leg work. Between bookings, picking songs, getting new songs to them and anything else in between and it drives me crazy that you can't even get a response out of them to say they received a message. The guitar player doesn't do much in the way of management but he always responds and is prepared. I have even had some nice arguments with the drummer about this very thing and it goes in one ear and out the other. I can tolerate the keyboard player a little more because he is good and he has small kids and works some longer hours. The drummer is a different story as he doesn't work and is an average player at best as he is never prepared. If it was up to me I would dump him but he hasn't gotten on everyone else's nerves like he has mine. Now that I have said all of that with the technology today there should be no reason why communication between band members shouldn't be a breeze.
It's generally not so much an issue of firing someone for not responding to e-mail promptly as it is that I don't hire those people in the first place.
I hire musicians all the time. I have the good fortune of knowing and working with many excellent musicians. All other things being equal, I will generally hire the musician who responds quickly to my communications, whatever the medium. The guys who are habitually slow to respond or hard to get in touch with tend to move to the bottom of my list.
Worst case scenario, you have on line calendar for booking and you use e-mail or text to confirm booking dates with all band members.
You hear back in one way or the other from all band members except the one that wont embrace any sort of technology. You had to put the club on hold for a few days because you havent heard from Mr. No Cell No Internet. The club books another band.
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You hear back in one way or the other from all band members except the one that wont embrace any sort of technology. You had to put the club on hold for a few days because you havent heard from Mr. No Cell No Internet. The club books another band.
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We just pick up the phone and call each other if we have to talk about something.
Crazy, eh?
Depends on the band , how busy you are.
With a very busy working band with members with busy life styles a phone call is not always a good option anymore.
After you have been doing this for a while, Id' rather text or e-mail than make a call or receive a call.Things just seem to move faster. But thats just me.
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The fact that my guitar players acknowledge the use of electricity is a small victory in itself.
We use e-mail & cell phones to stay in touch with each other. We don't text or use FaceBook, just no real need for it at this point. Almost all of our booking is handled by phone or in person. And yes we still swap CD's on a regular basis. When I can figure out how to rip YouTube audio to my mp3 player then I might bother with it. But for now CD's and Itunes get the job done for us.
We use e-mail & cell phones to stay in touch with each other. We don't text or use FaceBook, just no real need for it at this point. Almost all of our booking is handled by phone or in person. And yes we still swap CD's on a regular basis. When I can figure out how to rip YouTube audio to my mp3 player then I might bother with it. But for now CD's and Itunes get the job done for us.
