The whole experiment was set up to show that podcasting and new media is a social movement that has a pretty far reach across the globe. Raise your hand if you've ever heard of any of these.
Were the iTunes servers probably swamped because of the release of Apple TV and an update to the iTunes software? That would be my guess.ĭid traditional media take notice? Washington Post, BBC, San Jose Mercury, Billboard, Spin, CBC, Businessweek and others. Was there an Apple conspiracy to shut down the charts on Bum Rush day? I really doubt it. Was there movement on the charts that wasn't apparent because they only updated 3x in 24 hours? Possibly. Note that there are record companies out there that can't do what we did on the 24th. Just getting onto the charts is pretty huge. If you were to look at all of the other bands on the charts at the same time, Black Lab was the ONLY UNSIGNED BAND. Please let me know if I missed something. I believe these were our highest chart positions: Our one day push led to 72 hours of excitement as the charts slowly aggregated. Get your copy of Virtual Hot Wings today! It's entirely a grassroots album that does not contribute a dime to any of the organizations currently attacking independent music artists and listeners. Most important of all, the distribution of Virtual Hot Wings puts no money in the pockets of any traditional music distribution source, from distributors to iTunes to the recording industry. In a new twist on bootleg recordings, fans taped his concerts digitally (with his consent) and subsequently created the cover art, ring tones and other digital media, in addition to choosing and arranging the song selections.
Fans that purchase the album will be able to download it immediately and burn it to a CD or listen to it on a computer, iPod, or other portable music device.Įbel is embracing and supporting his dedicated fans that created, produced, distributed, and marketed the album on his behalf. For those not currently using Second Life, the downloads are also available from The fans took their interaction to another level by building virtual vending machines as the in-world distribution vehicle for the album. Fans can download, burn, and enjoy the new CD when they want, where they want and how they want with no DRM constraints. On Friday, May 25, 2007, Ebel will release his new CD "Virtual Hot Wings" and will play tracks from his album during a live lunchtime concert at the Coca-Cola Virtual Thirst Pavilion on crayon's Second Life Island (The album will be available at the concert for purchase for L$5,000 Lindens which at the current Linden Lab's Second Life exchange rate is approximately $20 US in real world money. There has never been a shortage of global Beatles releases, and to collate everything up to the present day would be an impossible task.Matthew Ebel, a Nashville-based piano rock musician and podsafe music rock star, is taking the landmark step of not only allowing fans to share his music on podcasts (downloadable Internet radio shows), but even going so far as to let fans make bootleg copies of his music for sale, culminating in a virtual CD to be released at the Coca-Cola Pavilion on crayonville island in the virtual reality world of Second Life. These discographies focus mainly on releases from the 1960s and 1970 ie The Beatles’ time as an active group. At the time The Beatles hated some of the repackaged releases, but today they give a fascinating snaphot of changing fashions and styles. The band’s determination to give fans good value for money was scarcely respected in the rush to sell more Beatles products to eager fans.Īrtwork was put together using an array of photographic sources. Singles were selected with no consultation with The Beatles or Brian Epstein.
Albums were chopped and changed, reordered, retitled, rehashed and occasionally bundled with recordings by other artists. However, during the 1960s and beyond, record labels with the rights to release Beatles recordings took great liberties when issuing their music.
This selection is augmented by the inclusion of the Magical Mystery Tour compilation originally issued by Capitol Records in North America, and the Past Masters collection of non-album tracks. Nowadays their established canon of work consists of the UK albums originally released by Parlophone/EMI and, from 1968 onwards, Apple. Forty-one fully detailed Beatles discographies from around the world, with track listing, release dates, and cover artwork for singles, albums and EPs – from Argentina to Yugoslavia!Ī vast array of Beatles LPs (albums), EPs and singles were released during their time together.