Product Description

If you're in a band, you need the Internet. Whether it's building a Web site to showcase your music, downloading free drum loops from online sample libraries or just getting into huge sweary fights with complete strangers, the Net is the best thing that's happened to music since Phil Collins stopped touring. This book aims to show musicians how to make the Net work for them. It covers everything from how to build a Web site (find a geek and give him beer) to practical advice on making money and staying out of trouble. Detailed advice about what works and what doesn't features, together with some sneaky tips to help you along the way!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1309251 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From the Author
If you're in a band, you need the Internet. Whether it's building a Web site to showcase your music, downloading free drum loops from online sample
libraries or just getting into huge sweary fights with complete strangers, the Net is the best thing that's happened to music since Phil Collins stopped touring.

I've been covering Internet music for .net magazine, PC Format, MacFormat, MP3 Magazine, T3 and others for years, and I thought it was high time someone came up with a book that showed musicians how to make the Net work for them.

This Cut the Crap Guide is the result, and in its pages you'll find out everything from how to build a Web site (find a geek and give him beer) to practical advice on making money and staying out of trouble.

It's important to note that this isn't a tech book: if you're looking for loads of stuff about HTML code and other technological tomfoolery, you won't find it here. Instead, you'll find lots of detailed advice about what works and what doesn't, together with some sneaky and underhand tactics that you're far too honest to use and that we couldn't possibly condone.

About the Author
Gary Marshall has played gigs ranging from Glasgow Barrowlands and T in the Park to five-year-olds' birthday parties, teenage beauty competitions and gangsters' private functions. He has been heckled, bottled, threatened with knives, harassed by the police, mocked in national newspapers, molested, electrocuted, ripped off, chased by hormone-crazed girls and even set on fire - although not all on the same night.

When Gary isn't running for his life, he covers music, technology and pop culture for a wide range of magazines, newspapers, radio stations and Web sites. He sings in Glasgow band Kasino.