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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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 Posted - 04/19/2007 : 1:43:38 PM
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You can probably guess that I'm pretty excited. My first "real" CD is completed and ready for sale after about four years of recording and rerecording, mixing and remixing, mastering and remastering, graphicing and ... well, when you see the graphics you can probably tell there was no regraphicing.
I'm pushing these at gigs and buttonholing people on the streets, but for long distance customers, let me suggest that you can get a copy from CD Baby. There's a link on the Music page of my website: http://www.kaleponi.com/music or you can go directly to CD Baby at http://cdbaby.com/cd/franguidry
For those hooked on Itunes or other music download services, "Kaleponi" will be available there within a few weeks.
Fran
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E ho`okani pila kakou ma Kaleponi
Slack Key Guitar in California - www.kaleponi.com
Slack Key on YouTube
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Darin
Lokahi
USA
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ArtSap
Lokahi
USA
267 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2007 : 2:38:42 PM
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| Congratulations Fran! Good luck with the CD sales. Looking forward to hearing you play again soon... |
Art
SF Bay Area, CA / Mililani, HI
"The real music comes from within you - not from the instrument" |
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sbar15
Lokahi
USA
151 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 02:14:37 AM
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| Congratulations Fran Looking forward to getting your CD |
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Pupule
USA
4551 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 02:36:11 AM
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Fran,
Congrats! I got just got my copy and it sound great. I'm excited for you and know you've been working hard on this project for some time.
Look forward to seeing you soon. |
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 05:35:04 AM
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Fran - congratulations! The music sounds wonderful. I like that CD baby plays longer samples of the music than many other web sites. Especially with ki ho`alu, sometimes you need more time to get past the intro/vamps to get into the meat of the mele. That is a good organization from which to purchase music. They have top notch customer service.
We will make sure to order a copy of your music. And then you'll get rich, right? Also, since I am such a nebby-nose, please share with us what it took from start to finish to put out this CD. What all did you have to do administratively as well as musically. How do you peddle it?
Mahalo,
Wanda |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
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lat21north
Aloha
USA
40 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 05:40:48 AM
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e Fran,
Mai ka'i ka hana. Can you bring a few CDs with you tonight to Sebastopol?
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E holo mua
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chunky monkey
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 04/20/2007 : 05:43:40 AM
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| Way to go Fran. I'm headed to CDBaby for my copy |
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nahenahe
Aloha
USA
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Posted - 04/20/2007 : 08:35:00 AM
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Fran gave me an early copy of this album almost year ago now, and it was solid even then. A great debut album, brah.
I'm also working with our CD Baby contacts to send us the album here at Rhapsody so we can make it available on Rhapsody as soon as possible.
Please send me a high-resolution photo when you get a chance so I can add it to your artist page. (The same goes for any of the rest of you who uses CD Baby: Darin, Mark, etc.)
Mahalo,
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JimC
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 04/20/2007 : 11:35:33 AM
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So happy to find my copy in the mailbox today. So cool Fran. Great job. You should be proud. Better take along an extra suitcase full of CD's with you.... oh and a sharpie for signing.
Safe Travels
congratulations Fran !!! |
Jim
http://www.ohanahulasupply.com
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 03:14:59 AM
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Must be a big rush on Fran's CD. Out of stock at CD Baby. See below correspondence.
Wanda
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Wanda
Unfortunately, that is the only title that is in backorder. The artist has been notified and usually are very good about getting stock to us in a timely manner. Let us know if you would like us to wait and ship everything together or ship you what we have now, OK?
Mike
Mike at CD Baby
5925 NE 80th Ave
Portland OR 97218 USA
503.595.3000
orders @ cdbaby.com
www.cdbaby.com ------> to buy
www.cdbaby.net ------> to sell
www.cdbaby.org ------> to blog
On Apr 20, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Certo, Wanda wrote:
Well...what do you have? What I really, really, really want is the Fran
Guidry CD.
Thank you for your OUTSTANDING customer service.
Wanda
-----Original Message-----
From: orders @ cdbaby.com [mailto:orders @ cdbaby.com]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:03 PM
To: wcerto @ adelphia.net
Subject: Wanda - about your CD Baby order #1794206
Hi Wanda -
You ordered more than we have in stock!
Do you want to wait until we get everything here - then ship it all
at once?
Do you want us to send you some now and some later? (Don't worry, we
don't charge you more for that).
Please REPLY to this email and let me know. I'll hold your order
here and NOT ship it until I hear from you or the backorders arrive.
(It shouldn't be long until they arrive.)
Thanks and sorry for the trouble!
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Kevink @ CD Baby
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
1579 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 08:43:02 AM
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You folks are so very very kind. Thanks for the wishes and the purchases.
Wanda, if I break even on my production costs I'll be so happy. I don't even think about recovering the cost of the recording gear I bought - I'm writing that off as a hobby investment. If I clear out 10 big boxes of CDs from my garage without going to the dump I'll be ecstatic!! My process was long and drawn out because I was my own recording engineer and producer - not really a good thing. I might never have finished (I know I can do better if I record it that sone one more time ...) if my sweet sweetie had not demanded that I get the CD done for her. Administratively, I reduced the burden considerably by restricting my selections to public domain and original material, except for the Patrick Landeza tune which we negotiated a long time ago. I was planning to record tunes that I'd learned from my teachers and influences, and I was prepared to pay for mechanical licenses for CD pressing, but when I learned that I could get to Rhapsody and Itunes through CD Baby, then learned about the extra cost and complication of download licenses, I pulled back. The process of creating a CD is - track or record the tunes, mix the tunes, master the complete collection, choose the packaging, create the graphics, and replicate. It's quite valuable to go outside for mixing (in my case, just adding reverb and doing a bit of tonal adjustment) and mastering because these are opportunities to use other ears and other playback systems to evaluate the material. My mastering engineer is Bill Wolf, who has done Tony Rice and Emmylou Harris among many other acoustic artists, and he did wonders to smooth out my recordings. My replication was done by Diskmakers, and I was quite pleased with their work. I consider my biggest goof the failure to bring in a graphics expert. The subtleties of preparing material for print are far beyond my knowledge, and now I'm unhappy with the color balance of my front cover. Well, live and learn. If you'd like to discuss details of recording ad nauseum, please shoot me an email and I'll go on endlessly.
Bill, thanks so much for the request to bring CDs to Sebastapol. Two things - I'd be very reluctant to bring CDs to someone else's gig, even to provide them for friends. I just would feel funny. And second, I wasn't able to make the Sebastapol gig because I was on Moloka`i ! ! ! ! More about that in another post.
Chunk, I really 'preciate the support. Hope you enjoy.
Tim, it's gonna be a bit before I can get the pic to you, we'll be back on the mainland near the end of May and I'll get right on it.
And finally, we've restocked CD Baby (thanks to you all for knocking down the inventory) and I've made arrangements to send more if we need them.
Thanks,
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E ho`okani pila kakou ma Kaleponi
Slack Key Guitar in California - www.kaleponi.com
Slack Key on YouTube
Homebrewed Music Blog |
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bbenzel
Lokahi
USA
130 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 09:43:42 AM
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Congratulations, Fran -- I completely understand the length of the process -- thanks for proving that one can, actually, finish!!
I just ordered two from CD Baby -- my first experience with them.
Why do you need to worry about mechanical licensing on public domain tunes? Couldn't you still sell individual downloads on itunes or myspace of everything except the ones that belong to Patrick?
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
1579 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 3:17:14 PM
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You've got it, Bill, no licensing issues with public domain tunes, and Patrick and I worked out a private deal. But I had originally planned to do several copyrighted tunes. I wanted to do an Ozzie tune, an Uncle Ray tune, a Ledward tune, and so on. I even started contacting publishing houses and was getting ready to cut checks for licenses, when I found out that download licensing is a whole separate, and much more complex issue. So I dropped all the copyright tunes and came up with the tracks that are now on the CD.
Thanks so much for the support, and good luck with your project. Are you planning to make Healdsburg this year? I'm pretty excited because I'll be teaching a slack key workshop and doing a couple of stage turns, plus I get comped in to fondle all those fabulous guitars.
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E ho`okani pila kakou ma Kaleponi
Slack Key Guitar in California - www.kaleponi.com
Slack Key on YouTube
Homebrewed Music Blog |
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bbenzel
Lokahi
USA
130 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2007 : 05:53:45 AM
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Well, we did Healdsburg in '03 and '05, I don't need any more guitars and the Holy Modal Rounders are doing a big reunion in Portland the same weekend. I've actually got a hotel room booked in Santa Rosa but I have a feeling that Portland is going to win this year.
I've got about 27 minutes of original music recorded and edited -- you can listen to some of it at http://www.myspace.com/billbenzel -- I haven't written anything recently so I think that to finish the CD I'm going to need to license 5 or 6 Beatles tunes plus Vincent and record my arrangements which I think all need some polish applied first. So that makes Michael Chapdelaine's workshop attractive which is why I'm still vacillating.
Regardless of where we end up that weekend we'll still be spending some time in Bezerkley afterwards so if we miss you at H'burg we can maybe get together in the bay area later in August.
Bill
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kihoalukid
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 04/24/2007 : 06:58:07 AM
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| Fran great job, sounds great! |
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