Dr_Rez

Age (Optional): 20

Location: USA , PA

Music preference: Depends on Mood, Anything though

How long have you been a member? 3.5 years

What made you join a music forum? My taste in music was clearly lacking unlike now.

How come you choose MB as your music community over other music communities?What other ones are there that are as kind, helpful, and knowledgeable as this one? Seriously show me one..

How does Music make you feel and what it means to you? Everyone needs something to default on when there tired, sick, bored, interested...etc. Mine is music. As the saying goes Life is about the journey not the destination, and well music makes my journey worth taking.

Tell me what makes the MB online forum work for you and keep you coming back for more? "The love of course. " As Jackhammer said.

Describe an interesting experience you had on the forum? Theres a ton of interesting experiences on this forum. I think the best are still to come. Im gunning for a radio station, with music picks by members of MB.

What have you learned or what will you take away from your experiences here?
There are many people very similar to me, I may not know them personally but they are out there.

Real Name (Optional): Jacob

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Gavin B.

Age (Optional): Let's put it this way... I'm younger than Bono.

Location: Born and raised St. Louis Mo but I spent 2 decades of my life, attending college in Boston, then working & living in Cambridge, Boston, Brooklyn and Oak Bluffs in Martha's Vineyard.

Music preference: I listen to all kinds of music but have spent a lot of time listening to and writing about delta & country blues, psychedelic music, reggae and East Coast punk and post punk bands.

How long have you been a member? I think around 2 years

What made you join a music forum? I've always been involved with music forums on the internet. My insatiable curiosity about new music is what motivates me.

How come you choose MB as your music community over other music communities? I actually belong to the No Depression forum but Music Banter is my home forum and I maintain my music blog here. At one time I had a blog at the Mojo Magazine but I got sick of the trolls that infested their forum website.

How does Music make you feel and what it means to you? Music has been a huge part of my life since I was born. My father was rock music promoter who had mixed success. He took me to my first Dylan concert at age six. Most of my circle of childhood friends were children of musicians who went on to become musicians themselves. A couple of my childhood friends have become musicians of notoriety. From those friends, I discovered early on that I lacked the single minded determination it takes pursue a career in music. I was a good writer but no bands were in the market for a full time lyricist. I've worked off and on for several years as a freelance arts and music writer but most of my income is from writing internet news content and advertising copy.


Tell me what makes the MB online forum work for you and keep you coming back for more? I get a lot of great music recommendations and enough positive feedback from others to keep me coming back. There isn't a hipper-than-thou elitist attitude that is the normative behavior in other music forums.

Describe an interesting experience you had on the forum? The Music Banter Hall of Fame thread always had interesting discussions about the relative merits of a nominee's musical legacy. I wish somebody would breathe some life back into that thread because there were some very lively debates on the Hall of Fame nominations thread.


What have you learned or what will you take away from your experiences here? I'm not sure I'll have much of perspective on what I've learned from the MB experience until I no longer a part of the MB "experience." The best learning experiences are often the ones become good object lessons in hindsight. It never occurred to me that I didn't learn anything worthwhile in college until ten years after I graduated. By the same token, all of my near obsessive journal writing about the daily mundane events of my life over the past couple of decades has improved my writing skills immeasurably, in a way that all of the journalism classes in college never did.

Let me know of any other points that you feel might interest me negative/positive about your experiences regarding being involved in a Music forum and its Members, now's your chance? It's good to be a member of a music forum that welcomes people with all kinds of musical tastes and doesn't have a dogmatic line on what good music is or isn't.


Real Name (Optional): My real name is Gavin and my real last name begins with the letter "B" but you'll never get me to divulge my true last name in an internet forum full of people I've never met face-to-face. I also use Gavin B. on my radio show because I think the handful of people that listen to the show may nearly as deranged as I am.

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Dr_Rez

Online radio show or actual radio? If online hook me up with the address!

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Gavin B.

My radio show is at a real FM radio station with with a real transmitter! It's a weekly show on KDHX FM St. Louis which is a community owned underground radio station that has been on and off the air since 1968. All of the dee-jays are volunteers and there are no format restrictions imposed by station management. The station is supported almost entirely by listener donations and a few grants from cultural and arts foundations. KDHX's founder, Jeremy Lansman is a bit of a legendary figure in community radio who has used his brilliant technical skills to get underground radio stations up and running in nearly a dozen communities in the United States.

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Dr_Rez

Thats real cool, i wish it had an online broadcast version so i could hear it.

I do have a question though. I am trying to get a job at this local radio station near me. now since I have no formal experience I realize they are not going to give me DJ power but I would at least like to get my foot in the door. Do you have any advice on how to do so? I honestly would be fine cleaning there bathroom, I just want to be around it so one day I can actually DJ there.

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Alfred

Man, I had no idea. That's got to be one of the most charming names I've heard.

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djchameleon

Ask them if they have any intern type positions or entry level positions. Maybe you'll be able to get your foot in the door that way.

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

Gavin B.

The best thing you can do to get an on-air job is to make an audition tape or cd. If it's a local station with a small budget you might get the right person to listen to it. It's important to keep your voice in the deeper registers and use a conversational tone when you're on the mic. It also helps if you say things that are entertaining without soundinf like you're reading from a script.

Volunteering at a public radio station is a good way to get your foot in the door. I got a paying job at a local NPR station in Boston reading news updates playing the segue music leading into the syndicated shows just by hanging around the station as a volunteer.

At KDHX, nearly everyone who wants a shot at the microphone will eventually get it because there's a total of 42 show slots to staff over the course of a one week schedule and there's a lot of turnover because the deejays are volunteer unpaid staff. I was on the air within two weeks of sending an audition tape to them. All you need is a short 1 hour training class on how to use the mics, the turn tables and the sound equipment before you can go on the air.

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dankrsta

Age (Optional): 36

Location: Serbia

Music preference: I like to think I'm pretty diverse and open to all kinds of music, but I lean toward avant-garde/experimental side, noisy, spacey music, psychedelic, industrial, alternative and post-punk. Every genre interests me especially if it goes out of its comfort zone.

How long have you been a member? about 9 months

What made you join a music forum? Beside a few friends and my brother that I don't really see that often anymore (at least not as much as I'd like), I don't have anyone to discuss music with in a more thought provoking manner. This place filled that gap.

How come you choose MB as your music community over other music communities? This is the first music forum I joined and the first one I found. I don't remember quite clearly now, but I was looking for some band and among many google results there was some MB topic. That's how I got here. When I saw the broadness of it, how organized it was, had many genres, something for everybody, interesting discussions, well written reviews, I decided to join and give my two cents.

How does Music make you feel and what it means to you? Music always makes me feel something, even the music I don't like. But, when it hits me on a deeper level it can be a transcendent experience (even if it's just a moment). Then I become addicted to that something, I want to feel it again and so I search for it discovering more music along the way. It seems like it's the road that never ends. Although I must say, I'm still able to find that something in my old favorites. That's how I know they are worth all the time I invested in listening to them.

Tell me what makes the MB online forum work for you and keep you coming back for more? Interesting people with their own views on music and things that I enjoy reading, taking and giving recommendations, sharing my own thoughts, discovering new music...

Describe an interesting experience you had on the forum? I guess it would be becoming a mod, a somewhat unexpected opportunity to help the forum that inspired me in many ways.

What have you learned or what will you take away from your experiences here? The most interesting experience is chatting with people from all over the world and learning that love for music makes us all very much alike regardless of our real life probably different surroundings and circumstances. Not just location, but age and gender don't make much difference here. I mean, I know it's the nature of internet and anonymity, but experiencing it more closely in this kind of community has been very interesting for me.

Let me know of any other points that you feel might interest me negative/positive about your experiences regarding being involved in a Music forum and its Members, now's your chance? I think I've said what I wanted to.

Real Name (Optional): Danijela

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MoonlitSunshine

that's fantastic.

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