In this day and age of business, companies need to stand out from the competition. Most accomplish this by having a dope logo. I have decided to see how many different logos I can jack and use my radio name, Mo Better, in some sort of way. Here is jackin logo # 1
Last week I met a kid that a friend of mine mentioned over 8 months ago, would blow up on the music scene. His name… Cody Simpson. Cody is a well spoken 14 year old singer, songwriter, surfer, from Australia who is now signed to a major label. I had dinner with him, his Dad, a few friends and family at a local Memphis Italian spot called Amerigo. We talked about the music biz, surfing, Australia, and finally twitter came up. Now Cody is still a kid, and kids do crazy things. Cody says he has a lot of followers (he was being modest, he had 950,000 at dinner) following him @TheCodySimpson. So to prove he has real fans he decided to tweet that he was having dinner with me, @MoBetter and a few others at the table and told his fans to follows us. What happened next was pure madness… for the next 12 hours my damn iphone almost melted because a 14 year old told people he was having dinner with me and to follow me on twitter. I never thought it would take a 14 year old to make me popular again. In a little over a day, my followers increased by 1,000. I am still getting followers and retweets from that one night with @TheCodySimpson. What have I learned from all of this? Its not what you say on twitter that matters, it only matters who you say it to, and who the hell is saying it.
I have been debating the issue of an electric car. While the concept of driving without gas seems cool, how many jobs will be lost if the majority of us were to switch? Word is on average a fully electric vehicle would require a recharge after about 100 miles. So I guess that last minute trip to the store on a happy hour meeting could leave you stranded trying to get home.
The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally.
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.
Record Store Day is currently managed by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Melanie Nipper, and Carrie Colliton. Folks wanting to contact Record Store Day are encouraged to email information@recordstoreday.com
NOTE:
A Record Store Day participating store is defined as a retailer whose main primary business focuses on a physical store location, whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation. (In other words, we’re dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores—not online retailers or corporate behemoths).