I'm discovering that many of the band's I like don't have websites. Besides SG101 how do you check out or follow bands and such?
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So I dumped facebook... now what?
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Joined: Apr 24, 2011 Posts: 1087 Surf City, NC 
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Posted on Nov 14 2016 12:41 PM
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25621 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Nov 14 2016 01:16 PM
Get back on FB, Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Mar 13, 2009 Posts: 2367 Twin Cities, MN
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Posted on Nov 14 2016 01:46 PM
bigtikidude wrote:
Irony. They great FB holdout BTD telling someone to get back on it. |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25621 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Nov 14 2016 04:07 PM
Yup, funny huh, Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Nov 14 2016 09:38 PM
Most of the bands you like wouldn't update a website if they had it, so what's the point? You can still look at their Facebook profiles. |
Joined: Jul 17, 2016 Posts: 103 Sacramento
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Posted on Nov 14 2016 11:02 PM
For a small band like ours Facebook is the best way to reach out to folks, plus sites like this one! But echoing BigTikiDude it is a Facebook world. —The Me Gustas |
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Joined: Apr 24, 2011 Posts: 1087 Surf City, NC
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 06:03 AM
Thanks for the input. I'm pretty committed to staying off FB, so I'll have to figure out something? — |
Joined: Sep 01, 2006 Posts: 2739 New Orleans, LA
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 07:31 AM
Bandcamp is good, especially if you start following a few other surf nuts. — |
Joined: Oct 08, 2014 Posts: 1073 Northern Ohio
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 07:36 AM
I like Twitter but I have no idea what it actually does or who sees what or anything. I've heard it called the world's largest bathroom wall. There are a buttload of surf bands and fans on it. I also have FB. And a website and Bandcamp as well as the aforementioned Twitter. Sharawaji Records set up all these social media accounts for me and I try to use them advantageously. NOT something I would do on my own. And my accounts are all overseen by the benevolent all-seeing all caring EyE in the Sky monsignor Mike. PS: Ooh ooh! My YouTube account is 100% bonafide ALL ME! It was the 1st thing I did when I got my music 'out there' and yeah, that was the stuff that got Sharawaji interested in my band. Take THAT world.
Da Vinci Flinglestein, The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube http://www.syndicateofsurf.com/ Last edited: Nov 15, 2016 11:24:03 |
Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19316 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 08:10 AM
I'm with Jake, I'm not sure what your concern is. If the band set up their FB band page correctly, it is viewable by the public. So do what you perhaps did before FB:
Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea Last edited: Nov 15, 2016 08:29:09 |
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Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19316 Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 08:14 AM
bigtikidude wrote:
Only to those people on FB... —Site dude - S3 Agent #202 "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1062 Berlin, Germany
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 10:42 AM
Las_Barracudas wrote:
If they are only active on one social site I wouldn’t bother trying to stay in the loop. They excluded you, maybe on Twitter, Bandcamp or Soundcloud is a band with a similar sound? —The Exotic Guitar of Kahuna Kawentzmann You can get the boy out of the Keynes era, but you can’t get the Keynes era out of the boy. |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25621 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 11:12 AM
The question is, why did you leave FB? If I want to see band info, I go directly to a bands page or see posts in the FB surf forums. But I must say, I'd still rather see bands news posts about releases,shows etc. here on SG101. —Jeff(bigtikidude) Last edited: Nov 15, 2016 11:13:46 |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1062 Berlin, Germany
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 05:34 PM
Unless you only follow bands that pay Facebook you will not see all the news of all bands you follow in your timeline. I think if a band doesn’t run ads you only see 60% of their updates. —The Exotic Guitar of Kahuna Kawentzmann You can get the boy out of the Keynes era, but you can’t get the Keynes era out of the boy. |
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Joined: Apr 24, 2011 Posts: 1087 Surf City, NC
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 06:25 PM
bigtikidude wrote:
Well yes, all the political nonsense was definitely the straw that broke the camel's back. I wish that now that the election is over I could say things will get better on FB, but if anything I think it's getting worse. Here's a few other reasons:
With that said, most of the music related groups were pretty cool and I will miss that, along with the fishing and kayak groups. Who knows, maybe if I start gigging again I'll join back up for networking / promo purposes but I really feel the need to just unplug from "social media" right now. —Last edited: Nov 15, 2016 18:31:53 |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 06:42 PM
Brian wrote:
Yes, this precisely. Not having Facebook does not impact me in the slightest. No sleep lost. |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25621 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Nov 15 2016 09:45 PM
As I said, I stopped following the news feed. So I don't see any of the stuff people say that they hate seeing on FB. —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5310 the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Nov 16 2016 06:37 AM
bigtikidude wrote:
you're a better man for that ^^^ the thing with FB too is posts get lost in the shuffle quickly. i never scroll back through looking for something. but......here on SG101 each discussion or whatever is all right there or easy to find. — |
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Posted on Nov 17 2016 10:55 AM
I asked this question a while ago when my website server shut down. Facebook is a royal pain in the rear and any publicity on it is generally ignored. It may be useful for promoting events, but that's about it. My suggestion would be to see what bands have a mailing list and send out news, like Double Crown do, and get your email address on their list. I gave up Facebook a while ago and was forced back on because of the band. And why does the band have a Facebook page? Because everyone else does! Once upon a time musicians would spend their time writing music and practicing, now you have to update Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ ad nauseum. I have an idea for an app to help with this if anyone can write code? we can go halves...? — |
Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Posts: 1568 Brighton UK
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Posted on Nov 17 2016 01:17 PM
Interestingly, I was with a friend of mine this afternoon; he's the guy who books shows at one of the venues where I work doing sound. He was being interviewed by someone doing a survey on how bookers and promoters find acts (I suspect he was angling to sell some new kind of online tool for bands). My friend told him that Facebook gave him all the information he needed to find out about bands. The interviewer was somewhat deflated, but it is the truth, isn't it? You may not want to use Facebook personally, but I'd suggest it was pretty foolish to abandon it for your band at this point. — |
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