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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Online Music Set For (More) Explosive Growth
MusicIndustryStocks.com recently reported that RealNetworks (RNWK) now has more than one million subscribers to its subscription music services. And how many teenagers and people on busses and trains do you see without an iPod?
You do the math.
Monday, April 25, 2005
SLS International News + Steve Vai Update
For those of you wondering how my rock star stalking went this past weekend – the Steve Vai (ex guitarist for Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake) show in Seattle was very impressive. As you can see from the photos below, I was fortunate enough to meet Steve. We chatted for a while, he signed every bit of paper I threw at him, and then as if I wasn’t happy enough about the whole ordeal, he let me play "Evo", his personal Ibanez Jem guitar. Yes I was in musician heaven. Afterwards during the show I had to wonder to myself if Steve’s amazing band was indeed human… If you get a chance, definitely catch the Vai band if they come to a town near you, I highly recommend it, if extreme musicianship is your bag.
My thanks to Steve Vai for humoring an old die hard fan for so long!
Brian meets Steve Vai |
Brian playing Steve's Ibanez Jem, "Evo" |
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Virtual Guitar Customization
Will wonders never cease? The originators of the world’s first digital modeling guitar, Line 6 have just released their Variax Workbench customizing software. In conjunction with a Variax guitar or bass it is now possible to design your dream axe on your computer and then to download it into your instrument. Musicians can choose between wood types, pickups, pickup positioning, body and neck type, volume and tone knob tweaking, and all through a USB connection between your computer and instrument. Wow. It all sounds very intriguing, but speaking as someone who loves the smell of sawdust and nitrocellulose lacquer, I won’t be putting away my jigsaw and router just yet. But I can imagine that as a tool for testing out different combinations of components before putting saw to wood, this tool will be invaluable. Click here for the full details.
The blogging on this column will be taking a short break as I’m off to Seattle on Friday for the Steve Vai show – armed with backstage tickets. Let the rock star stalking begin!
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Music Products Sales in U.S. Hit Record $7.3 Billion in 2004
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Creating The MusicIndustryStocks.com Portal
Inaugural Blog!
MusicInvestorNews is written and maintained by Brian Noer on behalf of InvestorIdeas, and is published in tandem with news and information that is posted daily to the Web Portal at http://www.musicindustrystocks.com/. The MusicIndustryStocks.com portal (MIS) features information that is vital to those investors who choose to include Music and Entertainment related stocks within their portfolio (InvestorIdeas.com features a suite of Stock Market Investor resource and due diligence portals). MIS is updated daily with stock news and more general news and articles, as well as a comprehensive list of public companies in this sector, which provides savvy investors with a starting point for their due diligence and research efforts. MusicInvestorNews will highlight the important events of the day as it relates to investment in this industry.
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