Chris Brooks

I want you to start on a crappy guitar, but be so happy you have one that you don’t realise for a couple of years.

I want your first band to suck, but that you don’t know it at first because you’re having too much fun.

I want you to be frustrated with your progress...

If you’re out there plugging away at your music career, you already know that it’s hard, extremely time consuming, and exhaustive work trying to steer the attention of the distracted and time-starved folks out there towards whatever it is you do.

So how do you rate your success?  What unit of measurement do you consult to judge how things are going?  Is it the number of Facebook friends you have, or the number of Youtube subscribers, or how many hits your shred video has had?  What about the number of people on your mailing list, or how many people read the thread you started at xyz gear forum...

Thanks to those who submitted questions about the new album through the site or facebook.  I compiled the most common ones and answered them below!

This list could be a hundred points long and still not quite cover it, but here are some quick tips I hope you benefit from:

I've decided to share this forward I wrote for my upcoming CD jacket.  It will speak for itself.

Between you and me, I love the fact that you paid for this album.  Yes, itt’s getting harder as each year goes by for a musician to find suitable compensation in the recorded medium, but I’m so glad you’ve made your investment in me. We’ve all got our points of view on “the industry”, but I ...

So, I'm just testing how the whole blog function works so pardon the lack of any real content worth reading here.  That will change soon enough!

CB