tag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:/blogs/the-grand-who-am-i-news?p=3The Grand Who Am I News2018-05-30T18:35:37-05:00The Grand Who Am Ifalsetag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/52664832018-05-30T18:35:37-05:002018-05-30T18:35:37-05:00The Grand Who Am I is now featured on a radio station out of Hamburg Germany!:<p>Radio Sylvia: </p>
<p>An internet radio station broadcasting 24 hours a day from Hamburg, Germany. The station started in 1977 and was initially on the air as a pirate for many years. Now they have turned legal and can be heard worldwide via the internet. Their website is:</p>
<p><a contents="http://www.radiosylvia.de/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.radiosylvia.de/" target="_self">http://www.radiosylvia.de/</a></p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/52335092018-05-14T13:02:50-05:002018-05-14T13:02:50-05:00The Grand Who Am I featured on Talent Show Case:<p>Try it out!:</p>
<p><a contents="http://talentshowcaseradio.com/blog/2018/05/11/the-grand-who-am-i/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://talentshowcaseradio.com/blog/2018/05/11/the-grand-who-am-i/" target="_self">http://talentshowcaseradio.com/blog/2018/05/11/the-grand-who-am-i/</a></p>
<p> </p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/52335082018-05-14T13:02:03-05:002021-02-23T00:45:29-06:00The Grand Who Am I featured on Jammerzine!<p>Try it out!:</p>
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<p><a contents="https://jammerzine.com/daily-dose-the-grand-who-am-i-all-my-life/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jammerzine.com/daily-dose-the-grand-who-am-i-all-my-life/" target="_self">https://jammerzine.com/daily-dose-the-grand-who-am-i-all-my-life/</a></p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/51217362018-03-10T14:30:05-06:002018-03-10T14:30:05-06:00"The River" inspired graphic<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/272988/74010abb124936cc8b5eed3116e321b736ba4e79/original/the-river.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/51109072018-03-04T19:04:11-06:002018-03-04T19:04:11-06:00The Grand Who Am I description?:<p>How's this?:</p>
<p>A multi-genre mix of marching band drums, piano, ethnic instruments, strings, stand up bass, and occasional electronic sounds create the foundation upon which the David Bowie like vocals ride to create the sound that is: "The Grand Who Am I".</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/51098452018-03-03T16:55:14-06:002018-03-03T16:55:14-06:00"Lost In The Woods" inspired graphic:<p>Things have been rough. Response has been slow and mostly disinterested. It makes me all the more gracious to those that have shown genuine interest. I'm still seeking new avenues to get this music attention. I was really hoping to avoid facebook, but that quickly became the easiest way to promote it so here we are. I'll keep pushing through. In the mean time, just for fun here's this to look at:</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/272988/1c592cd15134ff9177455b4b18b9a1a2309aecca/original/lost-in-the-woods.jpg" class="size_l justify_left border_" /></p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/50311972018-01-18T18:48:05-06:002018-01-18T18:48:05-06:00Good news!<p>"The Grand Who Am I" charted in the top 40 bands in Austin on reverbnation. Also,even bigger news, The song "Your Giving Hands" has been picked up by an online radio station in Switzerland! Woo hoo!</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/50233022018-01-14T14:37:25-06:002021-02-23T00:46:02-06:00Well this is going slow...<p>Much slower than I thought. I know there are avenues for me to expose my music. I just haven't found them yet. Like it's right on the tip of my tongue. Response to this album has been SLOW. A whole lot of folks saying they are excited to hear it, then... NOPE. Sorry folks, unless you are listing on some secret site I haven't heard of before, I have instant stats on most of the sites I have sent people and they aren't listening. I don't blame them. Who has time for that? It really becomes a thing to do, rather than just turning on a radio and getting on with your life. </p>
<p>Holy moly this was something that used to send me to the bottom of depression, but not any more. I'm really happy with what I've done. I still want to share it with anyone that might listen and I become more than enthusiastic when someone does list and actually likes it. The online radio campaign on Jango gave me lots of good feedback, so I know it's not just because my friends and family don't like the music. Setting aside time to go listen to someones music is just not for them.</p>
<p>I'll keep pushing it, and see where it goes. The prospects are still bright to me, and for the response I've already gotten I've already won. The music business is truly a lottery that anyone would be insane to play because the odds are insane, but you can't win if you don't play.</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/50113532018-01-07T13:43:47-06:002018-01-07T13:44:30-06:00#1 "The Grand Who Am I" song on Jango is...<p>I've been a promotion campaign on the online radio station "jango" to get a feel for how my songs would be received, and much to my surprise this song is out performing all the others so far:</p>
<p><a contents="The World Still Spins" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thegrandwhoami.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-still-spins" target="_blank">The World Still Spins</a></p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49853172017-12-19T19:49:05-06:002017-12-19T19:51:38-06:00Now on Facebook...<p>I really did try to keep it off of facebook, but it was making promoting really hard. The first thing most promotional websites want to know is: "What's your facebook page and info?" Hopefully a day will come when I can yank it all off of there, until then, I can't wait for you to show up and read this.</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702602017-12-09T15:59:07-06:002017-12-09T15:59:31-06:00Spotify follow button test<p>Hows this look? Do you use Spotify? Would you want to follow me?</p>
<p><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="56" scrolling="no" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:5D5OgqtodZ7RD4xPk8Mr6t&size=detail&theme=light" style="border:none; overflow:hidden;" width="300"></iframe></p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702552017-12-09T15:31:33-06:002017-12-09T15:31:51-06:00Facebook and Twitter (part 2)<p>Well, I really didn't want to be on Facebook and Twitter, but if I want to be able to effectively promote my music elsewhere , other sites make it really hard to use their services without Facebook and Twitter. That didn't last long. I'll do it, but I won't like it.</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702462017-12-07T20:41:47-06:002017-12-09T15:16:01-06:00The Grand Who Am I is finally on iTunes!<p>At long last "The Grand Who Am I" has been set up on iTunes. Now for the rest of the online sales sites. Also, I was officially confirmed as a Spotify artist for The Grand Who Am I. I'm excited to start working a lot with that site. Stay tuned!</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702472017-12-04T19:57:00-06:002017-12-09T15:16:02-06:00Hey Spotify!<p><strong>I'm trying to get approved as the artist of The Grand Who Am I. Somebody tell spotify it's really me. :)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Yes it's true. The Grand Who Am I is on Spotify.</strong><br> <br><a href="http://www.scdn.co/i/_global/open-graph-default.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://www.scdn.co/i/_global/open-graph-default.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="292" width="540" /></a></p>
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<p>I have never been very good about sticking to one genre. Lots of band just have their instruments and sound and write one song and make that one song into an album and go on their merry way. When I write songs it doesn't occur to me much, that I should be constraining my songs to one certain sound. I go where where the song takes me. I'm not usually trying to sound like anyone else either, so that really doesn't help things in the "genre" area.</p>
<p>All is fine and dandy until I go to sell and promote my album and the first thing every site in the world wants to know is: What's your genre!" I understand it makes it easier for people to find my music, but then someone that loves the song "I Will Wait For You" if they first listen to "Ups and Downs" and decide that's what my music is all about, chances are they will never even know that "I Wll Wait For You" exists. Noooooooo! This has happened to me in the past with previous musical projects.</p>
<p>Please don't judge a band by one song. Try at least three before you pass judgment.</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702492017-11-30T19:11:15-06:002017-12-09T15:16:02-06:00We are on YouTube<p>Soon all the songs will be on youtube. I guess this is a good start:</p>
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<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="sf2nKi9gPI8" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/sf2nKi9gPI8/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sf2nKi9gPI8?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702502017-11-26T10:25:59-06:002017-12-09T15:16:02-06:00And we're off!<p>The album is released! I just released it on this website as well as bandcamp: https://thegrandwhoami.bandcamp.com</p>
<p>It is also release via cdbaby but great googily moogily we have a major technical issue with the project name. It seems I confused "Artist Name" with my name so instead of "The Grand Who Am I" it's currently listed as "Sheldon Boyd Reynolds". Ouch. I use cdbaby for mass distribution all over the world, so that's going to take some time to correct. Otherwise everything else is going great. Thank you for listening!</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702512017-11-24T14:51:00-06:002017-12-09T15:16:02-06:00Official release date: Sunday, November 26th<p>I'm so ready for this! I've been brushing up on ways to promote this music. A lot of music promoters seem to suggest that I should jam my music down peoples throats, have a new song to release once a week, and drain my life savings just so I can have a chance to have my music heard and judged by a "music professional". Uhhh... no thanks. I'm not trying to start a new musical religious cult here. People will like it or they won't. Of course mass appeal would be wonderful, but I don't kid myself. There is tons of music besides mine that SHOULD be heard. I don't really care to hear music by the band that paid the most for me to hear it. That kind of music is consumed and forgotten. I would like to be remembered just a little bit maybe.</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702522017-11-21T18:30:33-06:002017-12-09T15:29:57-06:00Facebook and Twitter<p>I don't like facebook or twitter. I'm on both, but I pretty much avoid them. There is something really sick about those sites. I'm not planning on using them for this project either, at least for now. I'd rather my music not be on either. What do you think?</p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702532017-11-21T18:27:42-06:002017-12-09T15:16:03-06:00Almost time<p>So ready for the release. Ready to finally share what I've been working on for the last few years. I have set up sales here, through cdbaby distribution and bandcamp.com. </p>The Grand Who Am Itag:thegrandwhoami.com,2005:Post/49702542017-11-13T19:28:01-06:002017-12-09T15:16:03-06:00We begin<p>Funny to think anyone would come here with any interest, being that the music isn't posted yet. It's nice to think about though, that for some reason just by the appearance of a website and some pictures that it would be enough to pique someones interest. Hello you! If you are that person anyway. </p>The Grand Who Am I