Hello Everyone,
This is the mission statement of my most recent business venture. I am the co-founder of Bring Music Back To Chicago, as well as Nathan Klinger. You can leave a post on here, go to our website www.bringmusicbacktochicago.com (still under maintenance, will be up Wed, April 8th, 2009), or email us at BringMusicBackToChicago@yahoo.com. We appreciate your support and promotion of this new project. Thank you!
Bring Music Back to Chicago
Back in the 1930’s and 1940’s, the Chicago jazz and blues scene was at it’s peak. Musicians would come from far and wide to Chicago to lay down their tracks at legendary recording studios, most of which have either branched out to other locations and closed their Chicago locations, or just plain went out of business. Since then, the Chicago music recording scene has become almost non-existent.
Our goal is to reach 1 million dollars in advertising revenue to bring music back to Chicago. The 1 million dollars will be used to open a recording studio that will allow local and undiscovered bands to record their full-length debut album for FREE! We will allow bands to submit their music for our consideration through a link on the main ad page. This sets it up so that each person/band that wants to submit their music has to view the ad page first before they submit their songs, which will make the traffic on the website grow day by day. This is beneficial to both the advertisers and the musicians. There will be 1 million pixels available for ad space, which will be sold at $1 per pixel. Anyone that purchased more than $250 in ad space will qualify to participate in the selection process in deciding which bands will have the opportunity to record their debut album for free. This is what we like to call the “popular vote” and will be taken very seriously, however, ultimately, we will have the final say in who gets recorded. We are going to choose a total of 10 bands to record. We are not looking for any specific genre of music/musician. All bands entries will be given serious consideration regardless of genre. We will also assist in CD creation, design, and distribution as well as band merchandise. From the point that the 1 million dollars is raised, the ads will stay up on the Bring Music Back to Chicago ad home page for a minimum of 1 year (or however long it takes to record, produce, create, and distribute all CDs and merchandise for all 10 bands). News and events will be displayed on a web page that will be linked from the ad home page, which will give the musicians a chance to view the ads prior to viewing the news and events page. Once the whole production process is completed, the Bring Music Back to Chicago ad home page will be cleared and put back up for sale. You may ask why we are going to do that. Well, the answer is that once the CD’s are completed and mastered and the merchandise is made, you will be able to purchase them through a link on the ad home page. That means that everyone that wants to buy the CD’s and merchandise of the bands that we have recorded has to view the ad page first. This will sky rocket the amount of traffic on the ad home page. This would usually up the price of the ad space because it is more valuable and the volume in which your ad will be seen will increase, however we are keeping the price the same, $1 per pixel.
We will also be accepting donations. If you don’t have anything to advertise or you don’t want an ad up, we will allow donations. Even if it is just a $1, we will happily welcome it. You can also say that you were a part of something great. Same as buying ad space, if you donate more than $250, you will reap the benefits of helping in the decision process of choosing the bands.
Our vision is not to make money, but to bring the music recording and performance scene back to Chicago. We want to give bands the opportunity to have their music recorded and heard by millions! If this endeavor proves to be successful, we will keep the recording studio open and continue to record bands for as long as everyone will have us around. Another positive to this project is that, if the 1 million dollars is raised and we are able to open up the recording studio, we will have a program that will allow college students to intern with our company, giving them real life music recording experience. If you are wondering what the 1 million dollars is going to be spent on, let us provide you a list of what costs we are going to have to endure:
-Renting a space in downtown Chicago to transform into a recording studio.
-Building costs and utilities to get the studio up and running.
-Professional recording equipment (mixing boards, cables, computers, software, hardware, monitors, speakers, etc) and in studio instruments and accessories (guitars, basses, drum sets, keyboards, pianos, amplifiers, effect pedals, microphones, cables, etc.).
-Cost of actual production of CD’s and merchandise.
-Cost and maintenance of Bring Music Back to Chicago ad home page and other linked pages.
-Cost of living for 2 families. (Because in order for us to devote our time and energy to this recording project, we aren’t going to be able to work as many hours at our everyday jobs).
If there are any other questions about our vision or our purpose, please leave us an email at BringMusicBacktoChicago@yahoo.com. I hope you decide to support our cause and allow for us to bring the spirit and history of music back to Chicago, as well as giving bands the opportunity to get their music and message heard. Thank you!
Rock On,
Michael Baier (Gladington McCoffee/TheCoffeeGuy85) & Nathan Klinger (Guitarman1244)
