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Five easy things you can do to help thatwasthen
I would like to be the first to say thank you, to everyone who visits our website on a daily basis. you help us more than you know. your support as a loyal visitor to thatwasthenmusic.com is fueling the potential of a tour, new gear, and future studio recordings.
Here are 5 things you can do, in under 10 minutes, that will help spread thatwasthen across the internets.
5. Visit our site every day.
The smallest of vibrations will send shock-waves through the ocean of the internet. Each time you visit our site, we receive an increase in ‘Page rank’, or our overall popularity rating on the internet. Google and Alexa are the two main ranking metrics on the internet. Google calculates your visits to our site automatically, thanks to Google Analytics. Alexa however, requires the installation of a Firefox plugin called Sparky. Sparky will simply submit user statistics to Alexa on which sites you most frequently browse (anonymously). When you visit our site with the Alexa Toolbar installed, it will greatly help our cause.
To install the Alexa Toolbar for Firefox: Click Here
4. Comment, and then post your comment to Facebook.
we rely heavily on facebook for maintaining contact with our fans. every time you visit thatwasthenmusic.com while logged into facebook, you will automatically be logged in here. this allows you to comment, post pictures and interact with the site. every time you post a comment or image, you will be presented with the option of posting what you have just written, to your facebook wall. as small as this may seem, it has a resounding effect on the traffic we receive.
If you do not have a Facebook account, click here to sign up!
3. StumbleUpon our site.
StumbleUpon is a ‘social bookmarking’ service. This means you can submit sites that you enjoy (appended with descriptive tags) to other who may be interested in the same thing. Like Alexa Sparky, it is a toolbar that is best used with Mozilla Firefox. If you are the first to ‘discover’ a site by clicking the ‘thumbs up’ icon on the StumblUpon Toolbar, you can type in the ‘tags’ that are associated with this link. Most importantly, you must select the “Category.” Being that we are a band that plays music, we naturally would appreciate you filing our posts under “MUSIC.”
To download/Sign-up for Stumbleupon click here
2. Submit/Up-Vote our articles on Reddit.com
Reddit.com is similar to StumbleUpon in the sense that it is a community based on user submitted content. Users who submit articles will often ask a question in their “title,” while supplying a link to the relevant article. Reddit.com has one of the internet’s most active commenting crowd. People who frequent this site are among the wittiest, smartest, snarkiest users on the tube. Be creative and introduce your own interpretation on whatever it is we have posted. For every person who visits thatwasthenmusic.com, 10,000 visit reddit.com. This is your chance to express your love/interest/question/feelings to the world. We only hope to provide the proverbial stage for you.
To sign up for Reddit.com click here.
1. Send this site to everyone you know.
We realize that 99% of your email is spam. We wish to change that percentage. Email a link to this site to everyone in your contact list who you think will enjoy our music. Hell, even if you don’t think they’ll enjoy it, send it anyways. You never know. thatwasthen has built their emerging empire on word-of-mouth and grassroots methodology. help perpetuate the growth and cultivation of something that you actually care about. for this, you will be eternally thanked.
I would like to add, that we have broken the 400,000 rank on Alexa as of writing this article. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for your loyalty, support and love.
- Benny Dacks
Music Today & The Fans…
Well, while the band is away on a massive two day slumber party if you will, at the rehearsal studio in Shoaks, I thought it might be best to engage you, the fans on a pressing topic in my mind. I speak of the sad fact that gone are the days of the few and the talented band. In the days of old where music was in another prime. A time that musicians brought forth upon the alter of music, a driving force called rock and roll. from this “genre” birthed hundreds upon hundreds of “genres” that have since been corrupted by “the man” if you will. By “the man” i speak of the record labels and their various controlling companies. But the blame does not purely land on such companies, it of course belongs to anyone who has ever at one point enjoyed a piece of music weather it be Mozart or Megadeth. you see thatwastheninites! people today seem to have no time for music anymore, and if they do they for the most part seem to only enjoy the music they are told to love by radio stations and television. It seems no one has time to just sit back and enjoy all music, in all it’s various forms. Granted many people do not have such time in their day to allow so much enlightenment to pass their ears. I see today that all it really takes to get your music recorded and loved by so many is to learn to play instruments in the most basic sense, write some shitty lyrics and… BOOM!!!! there you have it, rich, spoiled and overpaid “musicians” if that’s what you could call them.
Currently this country seems to be in some massive obsession with the world of rap culture. Now I love some dr. dre and N.W.A. as much as the next guy, but it seems a bit ridiculous how so many rappers are able to make so much more money than actual musicians. You know the ones who dedicate their lives to the study of music, their instrument and all the theory behind their passion. Whereas hip-hop artists now a days seem to get paid to drive expensive cars, talk up murder, rape, drugs and diss Taylor swift at the VMA’s. I cannot remember the last time i turned on Vh1 or mtv and saw some actual music playing. This my friends is a problem, if the fans of music and the soon to be fans of music are forced into having their minds corrupted by what is “popular” which actually means what is most marketable and profitable, they will never be able to escape their close minded view on music as a whole. “Pop”, Another problem in itself. Pop, in the day was the beatles, the kinks, the who which of course represented rock and roll. their was the Jackson 5, the bee gee’s and earth wind and fire representing R&B and Funk. So many talented musicians and singers gracing us with their music in their various styles and genres, but now it seems as long as you can hold a tune a computer can enhance and improve your not so special voice and make it into a computerized beautiful one, capable of taking all the crackle and strain in your voice out as you struggle to hit that high note, or to be able to write songs with only three chords in 4:4 that whine about the depression of the artist who is making fat bank from a record company to record the pile of crap that will be the next album and the album after that.
I guess what i have truly discovered is that some people today have attention spans that only allow them to listen to “simple music”, bands that cannot say they can truly play their instruments or sing for heavens sake. I guess all i really want is to meet a teenage miley cyrus/hannah montana or jonas brothers fan who can tell me their favorite Queen, Beatles or even Muse song. I want to meet a lily allen fan who can tell me if they prefer the voice of Stevie Nicks, Joan jett or Leta ford. I want to meet you!!! and I wish to know what your favorite thatwasthen song is!!!
Please, I do not mean to offend. I only wish people to see how much more the world of music has to offer.
With Love
R.Mitch
P.S. I wish to hear what you the fans think. So please please please comment.
