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Joe Taylor Jr.

Make House Concerts Part of Your Strategy

/ Joe Taylor Jr.

Audio of a Q&A Call moderated by David Hooper of IndieBiz.com, where we explore the ways that working musicians can add more fans and earn more money by adding house concerts to their touring mix. David Hooper and I hosted…

Grow Your Band’s Audience Seminar 6/21/04

/ Joe Taylor Jr. / Tips

The core exercise of Grow Your Band’s Audience — developing a vision of your perfect gig and your perfect audience. The full exercise, along with 336 pages of essential information, is part of the Grow Your Band’s Audience resource pack.

Phish + Success = Does Not Compute @ NYT

/ Joe Taylor Jr. / Editorial

I loved this review of Phish’s farewell NYC performance, because their runaway success does not seem to conform with the Grey Lady’s definition. Which is to say that, until bands like Phish, bands were only successful when the NYT said…

The Case for File Sharing

/ Joe Taylor Jr. / Editorial

From BoingBoing, another compelling case for file sharing… if you know you’re not getting paid for your songs, like the singer from Sister Machine Gun, why not encourage file sharing?

Host Your Own Concerts Call 6/18/04

/ Joe Taylor Jr. / Tips

Here’s a call where I cover the basics of hosting your own concerts — just before I get wiped off the face of the earth by a freak thunderstorm! On top of everything else, our server’s busted, so until we…

Anyone see my a**?

/ Joe Taylor Jr. / Tips

Notable for two things: 1) How genuinely funny this is. 2) How genuinely original this is. David Hooper has the play-by-play.

Save bandwidth on your hosted MP3’s

/ Joe Taylor Jr. / Tips

Thanks to the Internet Archive’s new FreeCache project, you can conserve your bandwidth when posting links to your MP3 or other media files. Just stick the URL: http://freecache.org/ …in front of your own URL. Like this: http://freecache.org/http://yourserver.com/yourfile.mp3 (don’t click this…

Why Radio Can’t/Won’t Play Your MP3

/ Joe Taylor Jr. / Tips

Some buzz from BoingBoing on an issue we’ve known about for some time. Professional radio stations generally can’t play an MP3 that you e-mail to them, and it has nothing to do with copyright or preference or legitimacy. It’s all…

Dave Loves Stinky Cheese

/ Joe Taylor Jr. / Tips

Behold, one of the best backstage riders ever. It gets its point across with style and a sense of humor…