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.
