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Post by Snitskyman2016 on Aug 17, 2008 14:19:25 GMT -5
at some part of the day I always remember to vote I just bookmarked the karascene page
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Post by Champ on Aug 17, 2008 22:50:44 GMT -5
That's awesome. Thank you. I'm even forgetting to vote! I'm an ass
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Post by MasterSnit on Aug 18, 2008 11:47:13 GMT -5
I've been voting too ya ass. Even if I wanted to compare your band to the others there are so many there to look through it's just not worth it. Not that I would vote for any of the posers anyway.
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Post by Champ on Aug 18, 2008 13:52:30 GMT -5
you guys rule. I get more support from you guys for my band more than my own family lol. Go figure
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Post by Velkontés on Sept 27, 2008 18:24:07 GMT -5
How did it go in the end? I remember voting for your band at least half a dozen times or so
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Post by Champ on Sept 28, 2008 15:43:14 GMT -5
Oh we lost. We don't have enough press. Plus our videos suck. We're actually recording our album "Equal Lithium" starting October 11 and we're going to try and shoot a pro video for one of the songs. One of our old songs Scream of a Clown actually got picked up by MTV UK. They are supposed to put it on an album in January of the best upcoming bands! We're supposed to get charted and get 70% of sales. But my problem is I don't trust anything anymore even though this is supposed to be totally legit. The ball is rolling, it's just a matter of time before something finally hits
But thank you guys all for voting. The support really helps
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Post by Naitch on Sept 30, 2008 17:39:41 GMT -5
Its probably for the best that you don't get your hopes up man. Now you'll be pleasantly surprised but never let down with this.
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Post by Champ on Sept 30, 2008 18:25:11 GMT -5
you're absolutely right man. I stopped getting excited over shit years ago unless it's happening right in front of my eyes. For example, in June my guitarist said he sold 70 tickets to play a place called "The Chance" in poughkeepsie. It's like the biggest and most famous New York club that has nothing to do with the city. It's about 2 hours away from the gigs we play in the downtown area. But it's a real deal place with a real stage and balconies and a listening pit. We got there and I'm thinking to myself, give me a fuckin break 70 people are coming hear to scream for us when no one really knows who we are yet. So I just hung out and watched the opening bands, the club started to fill up with about 40 - 50 people, no one from our crowd. suddenly we're about to go on and a shitload of people just poured into the downstairs area of the bar with Karascene t-shirts on and I was thinking, no fuckin way! Finally we went on stage and they announced us and the whole place screamed and applauded. THAT'S when I got excited. Then the sound got messed up and I played the absolute worst set of my life. But the crowd enjoyed so that's what really mattered. It was a rush
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Post by Velkontés on Oct 4, 2008 17:22:17 GMT -5
That's pretty cool. Playing for 70 people is better than 95% of all bands ever manage.
With anything creative, 99.9% of it is actually, you know, getting down and DOING IT, rather than sitting around talking / daydreaming about doing it. Then all you can do is have fun doing it and give it your best shot. You never know what might happen.
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Post by Champ on Oct 4, 2008 23:41:29 GMT -5
Well in reality we played for about 125 people. It's just that around 70 turned out to be there for us. But it's always good for the fans of the other bands to hear you too. The whole crowd was into it that night. Then 2 weeks earlier we were promoting this place Downtown and were expecting about 30 people and maybe 40 club people. So we hoped maybe we could get 60 - 70 people to hear us. We got on stage and played for 5 friends, my guitarists dad, and my ex girlfriend and my singer's wife. LITERALLY that's all we played for. I guess if you want to count the bartender and sound guy too. The weirdest shit I've ever seen happen. This really young crappy band went on before us and they had about 50 people just moving around and getting into their shit. We we scheduled to go on next. So we thought, awesome, we're better than this band and these kids are going nuts for them. We'll definitely win over the ones that stick around. They played their last song, got their shit off stage and EVERYONE followed them out and the bar was empty with the exception of the people I named. The only thing my singer and I could come up with is that they were too young to drink and had to leave immediately after. But I never saw a hopping bar just empty out like that before a gig ever. I felt so unaccomplished after that gig. Sure enough 5 more friends walk in during our LAST song. You have your good nights and bad.
We're actually playing that Poughkeepsie place, The Chance again on November 29th. Ironically after I made that post I just found this out this past Thursday that we're playing there again because our first time was a success and we're getting a better timeslot. So we could get the crowd again but we need a set up where the sound isn't going to fuck my playing up again. The place is a 90 minute drive but it's one place where I can say is worth the drive because the sound is great and it's professional and the guys that work there aren't dicks either
Next weekend we start recording that heavy shit you guys saw on youtube. I can't wait for that. We're doing 12 songs and the album was going to be called Crossroads but we figured that's so cliche so we changed it to Equal Lithium which I like much better and it describes me and my band's personalities better. One of our songs is also called Equal Lithium. You guys are the only ones I'm telling this too because we want people to try and figure out what equal lithium means. It's one guy who has two personalities and he knows he has both personalities. But instead of the personalities fucking the guys head up, the personalities actually are working as a unit like whatever one side of the personality lacks in quality, the other side has. The lyrics are even my singer being just one guy making it sound like he's talking to other people when the lyrics are actually him talking about his other personality and keeping it in check. It's a pretty fuckin cool concept actually. I give him credit for coming up with that.
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Post by Naitch on Oct 8, 2008 10:16:12 GMT -5
So Equal Lithium is like the dude from Fight Club or the opposite since he didn't know he had two personalities for awhile?
And don't feel bad about playing in front of five people, a lot of big bands did that. Hell Van Halen was like that until KISS brought them along for a tour. Know what happened next? Van Halen stole the tour and KISS refused to play with big bands again until the early 2000s, then made huge dollars off tickets with Aerosmith. Also to end this paragraph, KISS sucks.
Let me know when you guys start selling your album and where I can buy one online. Even if I hate your recorded stuff I'll at least support you guys a little.
And one last thing, Champ, I think (as in I can be very wrong) your still unemployed and I know you have some strong creative energies in your head. Get some Tshirt designs down on paper and run it through your band. The cooler the shirt the more likely people will wear it in public and thats free advertising for you.
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Post by Champ on Oct 8, 2008 12:26:10 GMT -5
In answer to your first question, it's different than fight club because the 2 personalities both know they are in one body
As far as playing in front of 5 people. It could actually turn into a success when you least expect it. Did you ever hear how George Thourogood got signed? His band was playing in a shitty night club one night and there was ONE guy in the audience whom they didn't know personally. So before the set George goes up to the guy and says, we're playing this set just for you. It turns out the guy was a record executive and they gained more from any other previous gigs they had that night. Yet, from that night alone and that one guy in the audience they got a record deal
Also I'd love for you to buy the album. It's only going to be 10 or 12 bucks for 12 songs. That really would mean a lot of support and I appreciate that.
As far as the unemployment. I just spent all night writing a resume to work in a gym. I figure either I'll become a personal trainer or a rockstar. Either one works for me at this point
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Post by Naitch on Oct 8, 2008 12:38:41 GMT -5
Thanks, I needed like the sentence long version of what that meant.
I had no idea thats how George got signed. I met him in the airport in Dallas once. Cool guy.
No problem on buying the album man. From what little I've heard from you guys gives me hope for future rock bands.
The point on the employment paragraph is that tshirts are walking billboards for you guys. Thats how word of mouth happens.
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Post by Champ on Oct 10, 2008 12:14:47 GMT -5
We had t-shirts made but only like 24. They were kind of thrown together too. Black shirts with white in the center of the chest region and Karascene written in black in the white area. They aren't bad but since our band name is based almost of a type of fuel we wanted a little more dark flames on the shirt. Tonight we're setting up for the recording. Tomorrow we record drums and Sunday I'm doing bass
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