New BRIDE CD to be "fan financed"

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Hello Everyone,

It looks like writing has begun on the new Bride CD. All of your
suggestions, opinions and advice about the future of Bride have been taken
into consideration. Bride cares about everyone that has supported us. We
also pay careful attention to your thoughts and this motivates us when it
comes to what we write and release. So with that said, Bride's next CD is
going to be a mystery. We plan on posting work songs on a special site very
soon to get your input.

We have talked about a fan financed CD and this will be a reality.

It will work something like this. We will determine a dollar amount for
anyone who wishes to be part of this CD making process. This contribution to
the CD will then open up many privileges for those who wish to take part.

A secret web site will be designed with a secret URL. To keep it special is
up to you. It will be your money that goes toward this privilege. On this
secret web site Bride will post EVERYTHING. This means, work demo's, roughs,
early mixes etc. You will be free to listen to and download these work songs
and hear how the CD is coming together from rehearsal to rehearsal. Plus we
will share information with you not privy to the public. Once again you will
be responsible in keeping this unique and specific to you alone by not
sharing the information.

Once we set a dollar amount we will send out another Press Release and start
our data base of Unique Bride Fans.

Stay tuned for more samplings soon….

www.bridepub.com
www.myspace.com/bridemusic
www.myspace.com/philipdalethompson

Does that mean that when the album is produced it will be free? The band won't have to recoup anything if fans pay for it.

(band discussion after fan money comes in)

Ok, we'll get three, non-fat lattes and a double tall, caramel mocha. Now with the other $26.42 what should we do?

emptytomb1 wrote:

(band discussion after fan money comes in)

Ok, we'll get three, non-fat lattes and a double tall, caramel mocha. Now with the other $26.42 what should we do?

That pretty much sums it up.

Only my very favorite bands would I be interested in hearing their demos in addition to their polished studio recordings.

In this day and age, I'm surprised more bands aren't doing this.

It just seems fraught, yea heavy laden, with potential trouble.....

A unique idea if nothing else.

But one has to wonder how much money fans will actually pay to support the album's creation - and then pay again to own it.

HellRaiser wrote:

A unique idea if nothing else.

But one has to wonder how much money fans will actually pay to support the album's creation - and then pay again to own it.

And when the album starts to sell, will people that put money into it get money back?????

OOO! Good point Krokus! Like Stock in a company, which is what this kind of is....

scottmitchell74 wrote:

OOO! Good point Krokus! Like Stock in a company, which is what this kind of is....

Yeahhh

krokus wrote:

HellRaiser wrote:

A unique idea if nothing else.

But one has to wonder how much money fans will actually pay to support the album's creation - and then pay again to own it.

And when the album starts to sell, will people that put money into it get money back?????

That's a great point - never even thought of that. Like Scott said above, the arrangement could be trouble.

HellRaiser wrote:

krokus wrote:

HellRaiser wrote:

A unique idea if nothing else.

But one has to wonder how much money fans will actually pay to support the album's creation - and then pay again to own it.

And when the album starts to sell, will people that put money into it get money back?????

That's a great point - never even thought of that. Like Scott said above, the arrangement could be trouble.

Yes, it could be.

I think they should publish the names of all the benefactors so at least we will know who to blame when it sounds like it was recorded in my truck going 60mph with the windows down

Bride for me is over. I used to be the collector, get everything stuff, but after This is It that name truly summed up how i feel about bride...

Alex

Interesting concept in theory, but suppose a whole bunch of people donate $$ so they can make the album, then those people HEAR the album, think it sucks, and ask for their $$ back??

This could get ugly very quickly. I suggest they fugeddaboudit.

Here's my 2 cents for Bride - Live To Die Pt 2!!!!!

thejokeriv wrote:

Here's my 2 cents for Bride - Live To Die Pt 2!!!!!

Wouldn't ya love to hear Dale SCREAM like that again.

Yes, so much. The gravelly stuff now is O.K. but I miss Live To Die and Silence Is Madness era stuff.

You can never go back, I guess, and their still a good band!

There is something fishy going on here.

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I think they should publish the names of all the benefactors so at least we will know who to blame when it sounds like it was recorded in my truck going 60mph with the windows down

I too miss the Silence years.

an english prog rock band called marillion did a similar thing about ten years ago. wouldn't be able to tell you what cd since i'm not a fan of them, but my brother contributed and got his name printed in the cd booklet along with several hundred other fans.

If you guys would like to help finance my lawn care bizz, I'll put your name on my nice new shinney truck!

Sure thing Candlemass,the checks in the mail