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20 years of making music. 20 years of rock and roll. 20 years of friendship. 🫶🏻![]()
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Here’s to 20 more! 🍻![]()
Thank you so much to all of you who supported this kickstarter. These songbooks are gonna be SO amazing! 🏋🏻♂️📕
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A handful of years ago I needed to find some way to supplement my income as Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services effectively redirected the revenue of the music industry into their own pockets, the larger record labels, and that of the bigger artists. Again, as is the purview of the powerful, they shunted the effects of this revenue redirection onto the backs of hard-working indie-artists and small record labels. So, we were left scrambling to find other ways to monetize the very music we make that no longer brings in revenue from people's enjoyment of it. ![]()
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Being forced into the business of merchandise salesman, I balked at the idea of traditional band merch. Yes, I love band t-shirts, and I do have a few of them, but I also lament how short-lived they are. I've had scores of shirts over my life that I very much miss because I wore them until they were threadbare. A decade of wearing a beloved band t-shirt often consigns that shirt to the trashbin or storage. ![]()
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CDs, alas, are both cumbersome to store as they must be bought in volume to get any sort of price break and if you're a small indie-artist, as I am, they don't move very quickly. So, if you have 22 albums, like I do, I would be drowning in cds if I had physical versions of every record. ![]()
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As for other merch, I'm not a fan of knick-knacks and gee-gaws and gimcrackery, so that path was closed to me. ![]()
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So, after no insignificant consideration, I came up with the idea of the songbook. Designed to look like a cd, these unique, hardbound, highest-quality-possible books were filled with chord charts, lyrics, anecdotes, stories, hand-drawn illustrations, singles covers, color photos, and insights into an individual album. The first one was very rudimentary but when I received the proof, as I slid it out of the envelope, my breath caught. It was gorgeous. And I had made it. It was almost like receiving copies of my very first Get Set Go cd put out by our first record label, TSR Records. ![]()
And so, over the past half-decade, I have been producing a very, very limited run of these books and selling them to my hardcore fans and friends and family. And they have allowed me to limp along, making records, live-streaming from home, collecting royalties, writing and recording the songs and stories for the podcast, and doing all of the labor-intensive work I must do to simply get by. I'm not complaining, I love my life. I'm just saying it's a lot of work. ![]()
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Now, I know if you've chosen to read this far a) you're a reader [a dying breed, alas] and b) you probably know something of my story. But in case you only know the rough outlines, my life has been a completely wild, magical, hurt-filled, tumultuous battle against the forces of life and death. Of which, I seem to join both sides with equal fervor. Sometimes I choose Life, other times I'm on Team Death. But, no matter how I am living or killing myself, I am always documenting it in song. And now, with the podcast, in song and story. ![]()
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So, after having released Get Set Go albums for 20 years, I realized that I have made so many incredible, influential, talented, hard-working friends along the way. And in my newest songbook, which, as of the writing of this missive, is about $213 dollars from being funded, I'm gonna have a few chapters that explore those folks. The people who taught me music, and inspired me, helped me build a thriving and magical scene in Los Angeles (of all places!). People that propped me up, supported me, helped me get through this parasitical, venomous, vitriolic business that is the Music Business and gave me the tools necessary to tell my story in song. ![]()
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Every album I have released since Ordinary World has been a chapter in my autobiography. The first record, it's a chapter too, but an inadvertent one. It was just a collection of our hit songs celebrated only within the clubs and indie-rock venues of Los Angeles from 1998 to 2002. But, since then, every other album has very pointedly and with intention been a snapshot of my personal story. ![]()
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So, I figured with this book, to commemorate my 20th anniversary, I would extol the virtues and explain the relationships with the folks that helped transform Michael Torres into Mike TV and Vermicious K into the band Get Set Go. ![]()
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So, if you have played a part in my history, don't be surprised if you show up in the book. If you don't want me giving you a shout-out, please let me know. Otherwise, it's all going in. 20 years of making music. And there's no way I could have done it alone.
So, we're coming up on a the last few days. We're 85% funded! So close! Link below!