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<p><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=band_image&band_id=1241&width=290" alt="" width="290" height="218" /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The artist of the month for July is Henry Harrington (Troudador222)! Many of us know Henry and his music. His songs are about real life, the joys and sorrows we all experience. The sweet tones of his 6 string martin fill the air in the songs he writes and his voice sings of the world we live in. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Visit his page and hear blues, folk, rock and country and some surprises too!<br />Congratulations to Henry, our July ARTIST OF THE MONTH!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Rick</span></p>
<p>I saw this on <a href="http://www.bankrate.com/finance/celebrity-money/6-music-legends-filed-bankruptcy.aspx">Bankrate.com</a> and thought it was kind of interesting.</p><p> </p><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" align="center"><tr><td><img src="http://www.brimg.net/images/6-music-legends-filed-bankruptcy-1-intro.jpg" alt="" width="260" height="200" /></td><td>Many music legends are known for crazy partying and wild living -- along with their compelling way with melody. What they have not always been known for -- especially those from earlier generations -- is successfully navigating their financial lives. Here are a few musicians who have filled our lives with song while sometimes dealing with far emptier bank accounts.</td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://www.brimg.net/images/6-music-legends-filed-bankruptcy-2-lewis.jpg" alt="" width="260" height="200" /></td><td><p><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Creative success:</span> Known as "The Killer," the "Great Balls of Fire" singer was famous for wild theatrics, making "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" an understatement as he played his piano like a man possessed, kicking over benches and slamming the keys with his feet. And as wild as he was on stage, he was wilder off. He courted controversy as a 22-year-old by marrying his 13-year-old cousin.</p><p class="nobot"><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Financial failure:</span> By the late '80s, Lewis, spurred on by trouble with the Internal Revenue Service and $3 million in debt, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. His manager later told Fortune magazine this gave him a "new lease on life." Lewis, one of the subjects of the hit Broadway musical "Million Dollar Quartet," recovered quite nicely. He still tours, and his latest album, "Mean Old Man," was released in September 2010. It reached No. 30 on the Billboard album charts.</p></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://www.brimg.net/images/6-music-legends-filed-bankruptcy-3-crosby.jpg" alt="" width="260" height="200" /></td><td><p><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Creative success:</span> A legendary member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash -- and a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with both bands -- Crosby wrote or cowrote classic songs including "Wooden Ships," "Eight Miles High," "Long Time Gone" and "Guinnevere."</p><p><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Financial failure:</span> Back in 2003, Crosby estimated to Bankrate that he had earned -- and burned through -- around $25 million over the course of his career. But by 1984, he was broke, in debt for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and on his way to prison for drug and weapons charges. He filed for bankruptcy in 1985. When he got out of jail, he lived in a friend's spare bedroom and wore his friend's old clothes. Crosby righted his financial ship by getting back to work. He's toured with Crosby, Stills & Nash over the years and plays regularly these days with band mate Graham Nash. As political as ever, Crosby recently contributed to an album to support the Occupy Wall Street movement.</p></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://www.brimg.net/images/6-music-legends-filed-bankruptcy-4-petty.jpg" alt="" width="260" height="200" /></td><td><p><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Creative success:</span> How many music legends can inspire a major director, such as Peter Bogdanovich, to direct a documentary about them -- that's almost four hours long? Between solo albums, records with his band the Heartbreakers and the scratchy-voiced guitarist supergroup The Traveling Wilburys, Petty has sold more than 60 million albums with hits such as "Don't Come Around Here No More," "Runnin' Down a Dream" and "Free Fallin'."</p><p class="nobot"><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Financial failure:</span> By 1979, Petty had several hits, including "American Girl," but not much money to show for it. When his record label was sold, Petty had a major problem with his contract simply being transferred from one label to another without his having any say in the matter. Not wanting to be "bought and sold like a piece of meat," Petty self-financed his next album for around half a million dollars, then refused to let the label put it out. He declared bankruptcy to help get released from his contract, got his release, and then re-signed to the same label, MCA, for considerably better terms. In taking this shrewd tactic, he set an example many musicians have since followed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://www.brimg.net/images/6-music-legends-filed-bankruptcy-5-newton.jpg" alt="" width="260" height="200" /></td><td><p><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Creative success:</span> While a recording artist early in his career, Newton's real success came in his role as "Mr. Las Vegas." With regular headlining stints at various Vegas hotels over the years, Newton has earned as much as $25 million a year, with his net worth once estimated at around $100 million.</p><p class="nobot"><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Financial failure:</span> Newton declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992 with an estimated $20 million in debt, including an IRS lien of more than $300,000. While he was in (much) better financial shape within several years, he was sued by the IRS in 2005. The agency alleged he and his wife owed around $1.8 million, partially for failing to report the sale of a horse. Since then, Newton has been sued several times, including a successful 2009 suit for back wages that earned a former pilot a judgment of more than $500,000 -- leading to the garnishment of Newton's wages -- and a 2010 suit for more than $3 million over a loan.</p></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://www.brimg.net/images/6-music-legends-filed-bankruptcy-6-gaye.jpg" alt="" width="260" height="200" /></td><td><p><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Creative success:</span> Known as one of the greatest rhythm-and-blues/soul singers of all time, Gaye's seductive impact on the music world came from such hits as "I Heard It Through The Grapevine," "What's Going On" and "Let's Get It On." Gaye had 41 Top 40 singles including three No. 1 pop hits and 67 singles on the Billboard charts overall.</p><p class="nobot"><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Financial failure:</span> The master of the sexy single was taken down financially by divorce. Gaye filed for bankruptcy in 1976 after failing to keep up with alimony payments, as he reportedly owed his ex-wife in the neighborhood of $600,000. To get out from under her thumb, he promised his ex the royalties to his next album -- which ironically dealt with his feelings about the divorce. Gaye continued performing, but he still faced financial troubles and a drug addiction. He seemed to be making a comeback from 1982's "Sexual Healing" until, following a heated argument, he was killed by his father in 1984, the day before turning 45.</p></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://www.brimg.net/images/6-music-legends-filed-bankruptcy-7-fleetwood.jpg" alt="" width="260" height="200" /></td><td><p><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Creative success:</span> When not hopping from bed to bed and enduring tumultuous breakups that would have even the "Jersey Shore" cast quaking in their tans, the members of Fleetwood Mac, including drummer and namesake Fleetwood, were creating some of the biggest hits of the '70s. Their 1977 album "Rumours" remains one of the best-selling albums of all time.</p><p class="nobot"><span class="fcDarkBlue fB">Financial failure:</span> While Fleetwood should have, by all rights, been a millionaire many times over throughout the '80s, he was done in by two oddly juxtaposed desires -- cocaine and real estate. His love for the former and bad judgment on the latter led him toward bankruptcy in the middle of the decade. By the '90s, though, he had reportedly turned his life around, including quitting drugs and developing a trusted team of financial advisers. He's toured and recorded in recent years with Fleetwood Mac and his own Mick Fleetwood Blues Band.</p></td></tr></table>
<p>Mixposure Announces Their Summer Holiday Contest!! We are very pleased to announce the kickoff of The Mixposure Holiday Giveaway!</p><p>Win a Hand Crafted Custom Shop <a href="http://www.stratageguitars.com">Stratagé Guitar</a> (www.stratageguitars.com) Equipped with the <a href="http://www.greatamericansounds.com">Great American Sounds</a> Active Pickup System (www.greatamericansounds.com) of your choice. The winner can pick from any in stock instrument we make up to $3800.00 sales price. The pricing on the site is sales price the list price is considerably higher ($5819.00.) Winner may pick any instrument up to $3800.00 sales prices. This is a fantastic prize everyone. Frank can't make them fast enough! Everyone that plays one buys one or orders one.<br /> <a href="http://www.cakewalk.com"></a></p><p><a href="http://www.cakewalk.com">Cakewalk</a> will be providing a copy of the new Guitar Tracks Pro v4 as well as Rapture and Dimension Pro.</p><p>Mixposure will also send the 5 Winners a Mixposure T-Shirt and provide them a <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/subscribe.php?mode=view&template=subscribe.tpl">Free 1 Year Platinum Upgrade</a>. We also have some other sponsores we are working on.</p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">What is the start and end date of the contest?</span> The contest will run from July 1st through December 7th. Prizes will be awarded not long after!<br /> <br /> <span style="color: #ff0000;">How does the contest work?</span> The contest will be a Battle of the Bands style with a twist. As we have seen on many websites, most sites use the most plays of a song to declare a winner. As we all know, the number of plays can be manipulated through software. We want this contest to be fair and anyone caught manipulating the contest will be disqualified. IP addresses will be looked at as well as proxy servers. <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/ranking.php?mode=jrMixposure&header_template=jrMixposureReviews_header.tpl&row_template=jrMixposureReviews_row.tpl&footer_template=contest_footer.tpl&exclude_area[]=band_name&exclude_string[]=Dazed&exclude_area[]=band_name&exclude_string[]=RwK&exclude_area[]=band_name&exclude_string[]=Ked&exclude_area[]=band_name&exclude_string[]=WILDHONEYPIE&exclude_area[]=band_name&exclude_string[]=KED+RECORDS&exclude_area[]=band_name&exclude_string[]=Jims+Artificial+Earth&exclude_area[]=band_name&exclude_string[]=BigPete&unique=true&type=song&date=range&begin_date=20090701&end_date=20091207&cache_time=0">Here</a> are the running results so far. At the end of the contest we will review the top 5 to verify they meet the contest rules. <br /> <br /> The Mixposure Artist will upload a song to their artist page. The Top 5 Artists with the most song reviews will be entered in to the finals. You will need to get your fans to comment on your song! One word comments will be deleted!! <br /> <br /> Once we have the Top 5 Bands, the songs will be presented to an Independent Panel of Judges. This means no one from the Mixposure Team will be a part of the final decision. The judges will score the song based on a few different categories and the numbers will be tallied. Then the bands will be stacked ranked and the prizes will be awarded. <br /> <br /> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Who will ship the prizes? </span>The prizes will be shipped directly from our sponsors and the T-Shirts will be shipped from Mixposure.</p><p>I will be posting all of the legal stuff shortly.</p><p>Good luck to all!!</p><p>Todd</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">You have probably noticed that inside your control panel is a new social media application. The goal is to move this to the main Mix Page as well as artist pages so it will be easier to update. We also have introduced a new bug it looks like where some of the images on the main page are no longer displaying properly. I will be looking into that as well so excuse the dust on the new changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Todd</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=mix_store"><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=item_image&band_id=2839&item_id=210" alt="" width="500" height="292" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We had a lot of requests for these so we will see how it pans out. Our apologies for the price right off the bat. We only ordered 12 so we did not receive much of a discount and we are actually taking a loss on these. The quantities and sizes are extremely limited obviously so our apologies if we sell out of a size and do not get it removed from the page fast enough and have to cancel an order. However if we sell these quickly, we will order some more. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Right now we have all shirts for USA only. The simple reason is the shipping charges. If you are not in the USA and would like one, please </span><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=form_contact"><span style="font-size: medium;">contact us</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> and we will check the shipping charges to your country. Shipping to the USA is included.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">About the shirts - 100% Peruvian pima cotton in Black. 3-button placket with Dura-pearl buttons; additional yarn in collar and cuffs for a neater appearance and durability; split tail; stretch tape in shoulders for extra strength. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">They are a very nice shirts. We could have picked up cheap shirts and made a profit but we all agreed we wanted shirts that would last and looked nice. We will try and get some better pictures posted tomorrow.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=mix_store">You can find the shirts here!</a></span></p>
<p>So I have been debating on buying a new acoustic and was absolutely blown away when I found out Carvin is ending their Acoustic Cobalt line! There are only 2 models left in stock now! </p><p>I can understand the logic behind it but this just kills me. My C850 is an amazing sound. When I compared it to Takemine's and Martin's I had to get to the $1800 price range to find a sound I liked. I paid $750 for the C850! </p><p>So very said to see them kill the line. The truly were a remarkable guitars. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was thinking since it is finally calming down here a bit on my end that maybe it is time for a new Site Song? Maybe a Same Song Title Madness? For those of you who have never done one what we do is start a forum thread and allow a week or so for people to add song titles. Then we do a poll and vote on a winning song. Everyone will then have 4 weeks to create a song using the winning song title. Vocals are not mandatory but obviously help sell the song a little better. On the "due date" we will also play all songs on MixStream Radio.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyone up for this??</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Congratulations to <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Farrell_Jackson/">Farrell Jackson</a> and Buddrumming for having Mixposure's Song of the Week! Farrell and Buddrumming have been staples on Mixposure for some time and this is just a great tune. Check out the song below.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Bio:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Been learning and playing the guitar since I was a youngster. My training came from the countless hours I spent listening to those big black vinyl discs. Played in a few bands along the way and still play out solo now and then. Like many mid 60's era musicians, I would have to say my influences are the likes of: The Beatles, The Animals, The Stones, Cream, The Allman Bros., Steppenwolf, and CSNY are probably my biggest influences. I love great sounding acoustic guitars, mixed with tasteful electrics, melodic vocals, and harmonies thrown in. Equipment used: A couple of acoustics, some electrics, a couple of basses, some harmonicas, several amps, and my voice. I record to a Fostex VF160 DAW ( with several outboard pieces attached ) at my place, Jaxonville Studio. My music is acoustic rock guitar based but there are a lot of electric guitars in and about. Most all my songs begin life on the acoustic and grow from there. Music has been a very enjoyable part of my life and has allowed some very satisfying and personal expressions to come forward. Thanks for visiting and listening, Farrell Jackson.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><object width="400" height="450" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashVars" value="radio_id=&song_id=28286&band_id=991&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450&system_name=Mixposure.com"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf"></param><param name="flashvars" value="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=28286&band_id=991&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></param><embed width="400" height="450" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="radio_id=&song_id=28286&band_id=991&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450&system_name=Mixposure.com" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=28286&band_id=991&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> </object></span><br /><br /></p>
