Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Lyndahere, Music Marketing, Bootlegging And Hypocrisy...(revised)

A response to a Lyndahere @lyndahere Twitter tweet…

Today on her Twitter page @lyndahere wrote “Need to craft a persuasive argument for how actions should follow words. Thinking it might be better made w. action instead of words”. 9 October 2012.

Lyndahere ‘s actions say a lot about her. Lyndahere’s actions of tweeting official videos of musicians like Russell Crowe, Scott Grimes, Alan Doyle and Dean Brody but not bringing down her own bootlegged versions when official videos are made seem kind of hypocritical. She makes bootlegged videos without getting a licence or asking the people that she alleged to have a heap of respect for.

Indoor Garden Party St John’s Newfoundland 2011...

Russell Crowe and Alan Doyle have become my heroes in the fight against bootlegged material. In August of 2011 Lyndahere bootlegged Russell Crowe’s entire Indoor Garden Party show in St Johns with his co starts from the film Robin Hood Alan Doyle, Scott Grimes and Kevin Durand plus his gorgeous and talented wife Danielle Spencer and Irish duo Size2shoes. Lyndahere put them on YouTube and as consequence had thousands of hits. She seemed to have the monopoly of bootlegged videos as no one else who attended the event put any up. I don’t care how much money Russell Crowe makes in the movies. If he writes a song or makes a video then those involved are entitled to the proceeds of it.

Over the past six months Russell Crowe has released his own recordings from the Indoor Garden Party on his South Sydney Media YouTube site in competition with Lyndahere. Better late than never. Scott Grimes and Russell Crowe have remained firm friends since they made the film Mystery Alaska together. He has high praise for his friend’s music abilities. Russell Crowe has tweeted on two occasions that he has not been impressed by the quality of videos being offered by Lyndahere of the event. He wrote on his Twitter page “Even with shit fanvid sound,you just can't deny @scottgrimes From Here Clear To The Ocean Garden Par...: http://youtu.be/i_liG8Aa0YA  via @youtube “ 13 September 2012.

And Lyndahere was quick to respond to Russell Crowe’s criticism with the following tweets. @russellcrowe @ScottGrimes And if fanvid sound were not shit, people would simply grab the audio & not bother buying the song. Not the goal. 14 September 2012
@russellcrowe @ScottGrimes The videos are supposed to whet the appetite, not sate it. 14 September 2012.

Lyndahere wrote they were only meant to whet the appetite and if they had quality sound no one would buy the song. Whet means to stimulate. Lyndahere put up not only one copy of each song performed in its entirety but there are TWO copies of nearly each song performed by all the artists in its entirety. It certainly would not make for a pleasant experience watching someone perform through the view finder of a camera. Concert after concert after concert watching musicians perform so brilliantly according to her through a camera view finder. I wonder when she last watched a concert for music. The purpose of buying a ticket to a concert is to enjoy it and appreciate the music. The function of a ticket is that you pay for that event only not a life time of bootlegged videos. Actions and words Lyndahere.

So for what purpose was this filmed I wonder. Actions and words Lyndahere. To ‘whet the appetite’ more like flood and monopolise the market for fan videos on this event. Filming entire concerts and putting them up on YouTube is an interesting marketing strategy I find difficult to comprehend. That shit quality music videos will sell songs according to Lyndahere. I am wondering which marketing firm would promote that kind of philosophy and why if it were true is it is unique to only to music. There is no product and company in the world that would use inferior products to advertise a better product in the store. And no reasonable person would buy something based on an inferior product. If it doesn’t make sense then it isn’t true. There are now quality official videos of the Indoor Garden Party and Alan Doyle songs from his Boy on Bridge album including the song 'Testify 'and 'I Have Seen a Little' but she has yet to bring down her bootlegged videos on YouTube.

It does however make a quality product more difficult to find in amongst all the rubbish. A bit like looking for a needle in a hay stack unless you know where to look (Alan Doyle official, Great Big Sea official or South Sydney Media official YouTube sites and a range of other sites). The videos on Between the Rock occupy priority place in some Google searches and makes it difficult to find official videos. Whetting the appetite of potential song buyers should be done through official videos where viewers can buy songs directly via links to itunes or other music purchasing sites. Lyndahere provides no links to itunes where viewers can buy the goods.

'Testify'...

'Testify' is the latest song that Alan Doyle wrote with Russell Crowe. They have produced a video together filmed in Iceland. An excellent video with spectacular scenery and high quality sound and an Academy award winning actor producing and starring in it. The video has had over 17 000 hits in just a couple of weeks. Lyndahere has approximately 10 videos of the song 'Testify' that she filmed on Alan Doyle’s tour, promotion events and the Garden Party. Yet she has not brought down the bootlegged copies of the song 'Testify' of YouTube to support her claims they are there to whet the appetite of potential song buyers.

I have watched some videos by people who attend Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea events who are what not I term professional bootleggers. They are excellent. They are often little watched videos way down the list on Youtube searches with only a couple of hundred hits. They highlight the brilliance of the musicians performing at live venues with just a guitar.

'It's Friday' by Dean Brody and Great Big Sea...

'It’s Friday' by Dean Brody and Great Big Sea is another song that has been bootlegged by Lyndahere on more than one occasion. On Twitter Lyndahere wrote @alanthomasdoyle @bobhallet join @deanbrody on a downtown St. John’s rooftop to film the “Its Friday” music video. 1 Sept 2012. She put up a video way before the official one was released. She does tweet links to the official version but does not bring down her own versions that continue to remain on YouTube accumulating hits and in opposition to the official videos.

Charity events...

Another example of Lyndahere’s problem with actions and words was the benefit concert for Newfoundland musician Ron Hynes who is fighting cancer and the opening of Ronald McDonald house in Newfoundland for sick children with Great Big Sea. Lyndahere always the opportunist filmed both events and peddled them on her Twitter site showing little respect for causes they were helping. I did not watch her videos because I found them totally offensive that she would film at such events and without the permission for those who held the event and then peddle them to the artists involved. What got lost to her was that the concerts were for very sick people. Not one of the artists responded to her about the videos.

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