Yet another geek has joined our staff here at bandGeek. Welcome, Mike. I know Mike from when Captain Supreme used to play shows with his old band, Quarters Only as well as from work (he was an electrical engineer at Motorola with when I was doing software engineering). Mike is a guitar guru and knows more about amps and guitars than anyone I’ve ever talked to. He is a welcome addition to the bandGeek family.
We have a new author here on bandGeek, Dane. He’s an old buddy and bandmate of mine since highschool. We played together in Captain Supreme, the old ska band I was in. He’s a great drummer and a great writer. When he’s not working with the skins or pens he’s a high school English teacher. Welcome, Dane!
Well, this is bandGeek. This is going to be a blog about the happy marriage (or at least torrid love afair) between nerdy stuff and music. There are so many tech-based resources available for bands and musicans it seems almost criminal to cripple your music career by making your “web presence” a crappy Angelfire page and a few songs uploaded onto MySpace.
Let me start off by introducing myself. I’m Dave. I run this place. I’ve been playing in bands of various styles for about 10 years and doing some sort of web design for about as long. I’m currently playing guitar for an aggresive indie band called Davenport. You can read more about me here, if you’re interested. In all the bands I’ve been in, I’ve enjoyed taking control of the “tech side” of things. With all the resources out there, musicans can keep things cheap and very DIY, while turning out a very professional product, if you know where to look and how to use what is available.
I hope to soon tap the minds of some of my other musicaly inclinded friends to help bring some more perspectives to this site and I would like to encourage people to discuss the articles posted here. If you have any ideas for thing that you’d like to see written about here or added to the site, contact us!