Best Of The Fresh, Best Of The Best

First Monday of the month, New Hum Love playlist on Spotify and Apple.

The tag line I use for the playlist is ‘Best of the fresh, best of the best’.

Part of how I put together the playlist each month is to let the new fresh songs dictate whatever older songs I get to include.

Well the fresh songs allowed for some pretty solid callbacks this time around…even a song by yours truly with my old band The Kicks.

And if you smile when you see the name Owsley…smile… he’s on there too.


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Learning To Tap Your Toe First

Would you have had the guts and intuition to sign The Beatles…or would you have been one of the smart, employed, reputable, experienced, trusted record execs who turned them down?

Do you wait for other toes to tap to the music before you’ll tap your own?

Do you only take the risks that you know will work out?

Most of us would have passed on The Beatles.

Oh you would have signed them?

Prove it.

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Four Pillars

Publishing

Master

Live performance

Merchandise

These are the four primary pillars of revenue for an artist. If these are strong, all the other revenue streams will flow through them and because of them.

Pay attention to what is going on within the four pillars.

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The Best Option

It’s hard to make new fans when the people who aren’t your fans aren’t looking to become new fans of anything.

Familiarity feels less risky than new.

So if you take ‘getting new fans’ off the table, you’re left with the fans you have.

Play to your fans. Make things for them. It’s what you should have been doing all along anyway.

Current events have simply stripped away the other options and left you with the best option.

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Life On The Road: Now You Know

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be in a band (especially a band on the road), you’re getting a pretty good dose of it right now.

Waiting.

Lots of sitting around. Hoping for good news, but getting lots of mediocre news and also some bad news.

Podcasts. Looking up random facts. Snacks.

More sitting. The same people ALL THE TIME.

Some brief excitement. Elation, bliss, comfort.

Crash.

High highs. Low lows.

Still with all the same people.

Each day is different but it’s the same.

Waiting.

Running out of things to talk about.

Forgetting the day and time.

Sugary carbohydrates after midnight.

Waiting.

Arguments over the same old things and also things you never thought possible to argue about.

Day after day after day.

Waiting.

It’s fine, but when does it get a lot better?

When does fulfillment come?

How long is it going to be like this?


Yeah, that’s pretty accurate.

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All Of Their Money

The goal isn’t to get them to give you some of their money.

The goal is to make them want to give you all of their money.

Ok ok, it’s a bit of hyperbole. But…

The goal is to get people to buy a ticket simply because you coming to town. Not because it’s the right price and the right day of the week.

The goal is that they must have the t-shirt. Not because it’s a good deal but because the feeling they get when they put it on is worth infinitely more.

The goal is that you make great stuff for people who trust that you’ll make them great stuff…so they don’t have to hesitate to buy. You give them the luxury of peace of mind when you’re the one selling. And if you’re selling them peace of mind, yes that’s worth all of the money.

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