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<p>I thought I would mention this because I think it is a good idea. Carol Douglas posted in the <a href="/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11780">FORUM</a> asking if we could get everyone to post song lyrics when we have them. I know I am guilty of not adding this information so I will go back and add what I can.</p><p>Since we are on the topic, I think it would also be cool to read up on some song information. It would be nice knowing how it was recorded, instruments used song concept etc. </p><p>Thoughts? </p><p> </p>
Hi
My track "The Strider - breakbeat edit" was at #24 on last years Ourstage song voting competition.
If you like electronic music which is both listenable and danceable check out my track.
Total contestants entries were 354 songs.
<a href="http://www.ourstage.com/music/archive/entry/EPYLIVDSYXLV-the-strider-breakbeat-edit">here</a>
This is a subject I have wanted to tackle for some time. A member recently sent me a message asking about this so I thought I would clear it up. <br /><br />Is iMusicScene free or not? The answer is of course it is FREE! Memberships are not required and truthfully we do not advertise them. My guess is most people did not even know the option existed. <br /><br />This site has been free since we started it almost 4 years ago. We had subscriptions for a short time and then I removed them entirely. Recently I brought them back because some of you crazy musicians wanted to post your entire 500 song catalog on here! <br /><br />What is the difference between the subscriptions? More song and video slots is about it. The rest of the features are pretty much the same. Soundclick charges $9.95 per month for their subscriptions. That subscription will allow you to post your songs at 192k bitrate which is what all of our accounts will allow. Our subscriptions are there to just help support the site and offset our cost. If you think I am making a profit on this site, I have news for you. My taxes show otherwise. iMusicScene was never about profit. It was about having some fun and doing some music. <br /><br />So why have subscriptions at all? Well the honest truth is this. When this site first started, my shared server was around $10 a month. A shared server is many web sites sharing one small server. I have seen as many as 250 web sites on one shared server. Bandwidth and hard drive space were not an issue because there were only a handful of members here. As we got bigger, our host said we were killing the shared server and politely notified us that we were being booted from the shared server. They asked us to go to a dedicated server or find another host. Our traffic was slowing down the other 249 sites hehe. All my complaints to them about iMS running slow was being caused by us!<br /><br />A dedicated server is one that we basically owned and maintained and were the only web site on it. The price for this was $150 a month for an entry level server. We stayed on it for several months but again, our traffic continues to grow. As we grow, we have to constantly be aware of how the site interacts with our members. I work in Information Technology and I know as well as most people know, if the site is slow, who wants to be here? With that, we are constantly upgrading behind the scenes to make sure your experience here is a pleasurable one.<br /><br />The thing that cracked me up about this is Hosting Companies toss out these huge numbers to you. 200GB of Bandwidth a month and 200GB of Hard Drive space for $6 a month. Sounds great until you try and use those numbers and they are booting you from their server. Luckily we have a great host now that I can grow with and I am yet to see any major problems with them at all. <br /><br />We put the subscriptions in place for artists who need more space and want to help support iMS. Prior to the subscriptions I had people emailing me asking where they could contribute and we would politely decline.<br /><br />So yes, iMusicScene is free and will continue to be that way. The only goal we ever had was to break even. That is why we have the Yahoo Ads, MusicianFriend and Guitar Center links here. These help offset our cost. We have also been fortunate to have some web sites wanting to advertise with us. As our traffic grows, we will get more advertisers and use those proceeds to advertise iMS and help spread the word!<br /><br />I hope this clears up the question for anyone else who was wondering! <br /><br />Dazed
Glad your back and was able to listen to the show mate, good chatting with u in the chat.
Take it easy and stay out of the hospital for a while..
Hey friends & fans,
It’s Semi-Finals time at OurStage.com, America’s great independent music and video discovery destination, and I..m shooting for top act of the month. There’s quite a bit at stake here, such as gigs at festivals and other career-making goodies.
And this means, of the thousands of bands competing to be 1, DICARLO stands a decent chance of taking it. If you already voted me into the Semi-Finals, I hope you’ll come back and support me again. If not,I hope you’ll vote for me now.
So thanks for your vote, if you did – it means a lot. And please vote for me again. If you’re not yet an OurStage member, you can easily become one right now, right here. It’s fast, easy and free.
Here..s the link to my page;
The song is called "HURTS SO GOOD", and please join my Fan Club while you..re there. 
<a href="http://www.ourstage.com/banner/1/NOCRQJGDJUCH"><img src="http://www.ourstage.com/banner/image/1/NOCRQJGDJUCH.jpg" alt="HURTS SO GOOD, by DICARLO on OurStage" style="width:280px;height:300px;border:none;"/></a>
I need 20 more fans by March 31st. That..s tomorrow!!!!
Thank you.
Peace,
DICARLO
Hey friends & fans,
It’s Semi-Finals time at OurStage.com, America’s great independent music and video discovery destination, and I..m shooting for top act of the month. There’s quite a bit at stake here, such as gigs at festivals and other career-making goodies.
And this means, of the thousands of bands competing to be 1, DICARLO stands a decent chance of taking it. If you already voted me into the Semi-Finals, I hope you’ll come back and support me again. If not,I hope you’ll vote for me now.
So thanks for your vote, if you did – it means a lot. And please vote for me again. If you’re not yet an OurStage member, you can easily become one right now, right here. It’s fast, easy and free.
Here..s the link to my page;
The song is called "HURTS SO GOOD", and please join my Fan Club while you..re there.
<a href="http://www.ourstage.com/banner/1/NOCRQJGDJUCH"><img src="http://www.ourstage.com/banner/image/1/NOCRQJGDJUCH.jpg" alt="HURTS SO GOOD, by DICARLO on OurStage" style="width:280px;height:300px;border:none;"/></a>
I need 20 more fans by March 31st. That..s tomorrow!!!!
Thank you.
Peace,
DICARLO
ADDED; I THINK THAT DOUBLE POSTING BLOGS IS A BIT THE SAME AS UPLOADING SEVERAL SONGS AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!
BOTH ARE THINGS I WOULD NEVER DO, BECAUSE I RESPECT EVERYONE`S PROMOTIONS!!!!
IT´S ALL WE REALLY HAVE TO FURTHER OURSELVES!!!!!
SOMETIMES I WILL EVEN WAIT 1 OR 2 DAYS TO POST MY BLOG, AND LET THE OTHER GUY DO HIS THING, IF I SEE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HIM!!!! RESPECT!!!!!!
SINCE MY CONTEST IS OVER TOMORROW, THIS IS KIND OF IMPORTANT TO ME, AND CAN`T WAIT, SO I AM POSTING THIS AGAIN!!!!
HOPE YA`LL UNDERSTAND.
AND I APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
THANKS.
I understand that the idea behind recording songs for Rob was to express our love and support. It was never intended to be a contest. However, having listened to all 40+ songs I have to adnit that I couldn't help it and created my own Top 5 chart. In my humble opinion the winners are:
1. Farrell Jackson - Restless Mind
2. Rapster - Blues for Rob
3. IJenNeh - Leaning
4. Chrickon - Energy - for Rob
5. Soundtrapper - My Guitar Plays for Rob
I wonder how y'all's charts look like...
DrC
I'm sorry, but I get to pick the winner and it's EVERYBODY!!! :D
I personally took Doc's thoughts as his personal feelings, from a totally musical standpoint.......and not meant to be as in a contest context. I have to say, as I listened to them all, I too was hearing so many expressed feelings......I found......EACH song hit me in a different way.....AND!!! I LOVED EACH and EVERY SONG for different reasons. The genre styles blew me away and I felt I was listeneing to an album from the world and it IS!!! I can say no less, than that I am still OVERWHELMED at the support and love shared.....SO !!!! THAT makes us all winneres and fortunate to be a part of such a GREAT Musical family.
I see no lines,to be read, anywhere in between. This whole event is unique and there's no black or white ways to respond or express your feelings. I only wish, I were on the giving side of this.......the receiving side is simply.......STUNNING !!!
I have a spot in my heart for ALL of you, here at IMS.
PLEASE!!! Each of us should take the outpour of expression in no other way than face value......WHICH !!..... to me is an overwhelming display of humans joing together and expressing support of a common goal.......GET WELL.......each of us....GET WELL !!!
Thanks you ALL......SO MUCH !!! What an AWESOME group of people we have here. PEACE !!!!
Rob
<p><font size="3">Did you know you can link your music to other sites? </font></p><p><font size="3">In the Projam Theme on your music page, there is an "<em>I" </em>button for Song Information. In there is a text box with HTML code and another with BBCode. Most forums only allow BBCode so if you are posting in a Forum, use that one! I was going to put an image on these instead of a link only but some forums do not allow images. If you would prefer to have a play button there, let me know and I can add one in. </font></p><p><font size="3">If you are not on the Projam theme, you can change it by clicking on your Control Panel Link and then under "Your Site" click Site Themes. Find Projam and then click Rebuild Your Site. After you have changed over to Projam, you can click Customize Your Site and change the color scheme or in the top right click View Shared Skins to use and existing color scheme. Remember, you can also chose a Shared Skin and alter that color layout as well. </font></p><p><font size="3">In all honesty, the other themes may be going away in time. There are so many upgrades happening and the other themes do not support some of them. Eventually we may all have to move to Projam. Sorry! </font></p><p><font size="3">I hope you like this feature!!</font></p><p><font size="3">Dazed</font></p>
man it sure feels great to be a guitarist again.. I really appreciate what this site has done for me.. brought me back to my roots.. GUITAR PLAYING !!!!!!!! so THANKS for all the thoughtful reviews for this new little BT jam.. FUNKIN WITH BOB.. awesome guitarist bob forbes (redeyeC) invited a great musician and guitarist we all know and love.. nigel potter.. and also me to collab for his M3 ensemble page on SC.. rapster got the funk and nigel and bob got the rock parts.. but the the two different beats and feels just didn't seem to match.. so we redid the thing.. changed the collab Colossus to the great rock beat.. I then took my funk parts and just glued them together to make a BT style jam for all you great guitar buddies out there cause that was a tradition on this site.. still alive and well in the forums I believe.. BT means backing track.. and I got to say once again that bob's beat and bass were just too cool not to go back to school and play all the way through like a mad fool..
what really inspired me too was to find frank's arabic looking pic cause it fit perfectly the type of sort of eastern sounding lines i had in mind.. and even better cause everybody tells me i remind them of frank.. so this bit of guitar jamming is in memory of frank zappa who also liked it exotic.. cheers..