Happy Holidays!

[ernstinen]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!I PITY THE FOOL!Ern

[og]

Same likewise, I'm sure!

[booker]

So, has anyone ever given your own cd/music as a present to someone else?

[Casey H]

Quote:So, has anyone ever given your own cd/music as a present to someone else?Only to people I didn't like... Casey

[booker]

I gave out a vinyl LP once as a gag gift. (but the music I did was still 'good') Seriously... would anyone really feel good enough about their craft to do it?

[matto]

Quote:Seriously... would anyone really feel good enough about their craft to do it?I'm not sure it has anything to do with how you feel about your craft. I think people want you to spend money on them, and in their eyes your own CD doesn't cost you anything (even though we know that's not true...)So if you give them your CD as a Xmas gift they probably wouldn't think "Awww, he must be so proud of his craft", but "What a cheap $%@^#&$!!"

[ernstinen]

Quote:I gave out a vinyl LP once as a gag gift.That was YOUR vinyl LP!? Back when I lived in rural Michigan, we gathered up all the gag LPs and other terrible LPs and went out in a field. My roommate brought his shotgun, and we assassinated the lot of them.Frisbee toss --- Bam! Bam! The ones that weren't blown to bits were proudly hung on the wall filled with buckshot holes! Ern

[roughly]

I have to admit that I frequently give gifts of our music. My parents always say they miss hearing me practice so I'll give them a CD of me playing bassoon or piano (not at the same time). Nothing I would dare play for anyone else besides my parents. My parents know I'm totally broke though so they don't mind. We've had a client who recorded Joy to the World and sent out the CD as a Christmas card, it had the added bonus of promoting the album he had just finished too. As for actual CD releases, I think the people who would appreciate the music as a gift are the ones we would just give the CD to anyhow. Ern, hilarious story! I'm sure it was a bang up good time!

[hummingbird]

Yes. I started 4 years ago, when I went into a studio and did 6 songs karaoke style for a CD that I gave for Christmas to family and friends. Since then I've given away home made CDs of work I've done and also fully mastered album. My family likes to make gifts, not buy, so for, my music is my 'making' a gift. Right now I'm writin' Christmas songs

[og]

As fairly (4 mo)new hire at my current job, I gave my boss one of my cd's for his b-day. He said, "Sweet, my wife will like this. I mean...." I took it to mean, "Dude, you know I can't say anything in front of the troops, but thanks, man, I love it." The following Monday he told me that it stuck in his cd player on the boat. Had to take it apart. Everything went wrong this %&#@%*& weekend, and downhill from there. The upside is that everyone else who has received a cd has at least professed love for it! BTW, Ern, I recall--and I recall because my Mom reminds me once in a while--my father and I taking a pile of old records out to shoot. We busted a pile of them. Mom's favorite country 78's. I mean acid country. Hank Sr. was the baby. I claim the Nuremburg defense, but I still hear about it, 40 yrs later!