rsvman
09-22-2013, 10:49 AM
Hey, everybody, I hope you find this interesting..... When I was in medical school at Tulane University I formed a garage band with a couple other guys at the school. We made a demo tape, but it never went anywhere.
Fast forward almost 25 years and I get contacted by a guy named Reed Seerman. He was starting a website called College Band (www.collegeband.com) and wanted to license some of our tunes for release. I was totally surprised by this, and we readily agreed. He made the songs available at iTunes and spotify, and he also sells the tunes and some gear (t-shirts and the like) at his website.
As if that weren't surprising enough, yesterday morning I find a picture of my band (Garaj Mahal) on the WSJ online! It's a black-and-white photo of the three of us; the guitarist is sitting on a log. I'm the guy on the back right, and the drummer is on the left. Here's the link. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323864604579070122905147530.html
Hard to believe that after all these years this stuff is happening. I know we'll never make much money off these songs, but it's still pretty cool that they are at least being given a chance.
Fast forward almost 25 years and I get contacted by a guy named Reed Seerman. He was starting a website called College Band (www.collegeband.com) and wanted to license some of our tunes for release. I was totally surprised by this, and we readily agreed. He made the songs available at iTunes and spotify, and he also sells the tunes and some gear (t-shirts and the like) at his website.
As if that weren't surprising enough, yesterday morning I find a picture of my band (Garaj Mahal) on the WSJ online! It's a black-and-white photo of the three of us; the guitarist is sitting on a log. I'm the guy on the back right, and the drummer is on the left. Here's the link. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323864604579070122905147530.html
Hard to believe that after all these years this stuff is happening. I know we'll never make much money off these songs, but it's still pretty cool that they are at least being given a chance.