Do Your Thing For Your People

This post inspired by a lovely Tweet storm by Vince Edwards:

Watching the Marc Rebillet stream & I'm frustrated with metal artists' resistance to promoting themselves online. Will the genre fall behind due to bands just not wanting to work w/ youtube/twitch? Feels like the majority of metal is artists that can't be bothered to tweet.

— Vince Edwards (@metalvinny) December 9, 2020

He’s talking about this live-streams that Marc Rebillet did today, on his way to one million subscribers on YouTube.

It’s easy to be a band and figure, okay, we want to do a live stream, so we have to just do a live performance and set up lots of cameras, and…

Well, yes, you CAN do that, but that’s a huge undertaking!

You can also just open up a live stream and talk about horror movies, or sports, or whatever.

Like, now is the time to connect and interact. Bands are competing with the The Madalorian and freaking COVID-19, like… do something.

I always think about all the shows I’ve gone to over the past 30 (?!?!) years – it’s the people. The people you meet at the show, in between sets, after the show in the parking lot, all that… that’s a part of the live show experience.

You can re-create that from your fucking porch with a decent WIFI signal and an iPhone.

Do you have to become a Loop Daddy? Nope. Do you have play guitar and videos games at the same time?

Nope.

Just do your thing, whatever that might be.