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YOU (yes you musicians) & Pirate Radio

Zahal	Date: August 28, 2002 @ 4:28 PM This at first brush looks like the wrong place to put this thread but actually if a pirate radio station played only unsigned artists most if not all of dmusics site base is unsigned and then that begs the question all unsigned artists on a pirate radio station. hummmm interesting thought i would like to hear the artists opinion on the whole idea of playing there stuff on the pirate radio. BTW when I say pirate radio I don't mean that the pirate radio stations wouldn't pay for the music or not compensate your work or performances. Pirate radio stations in really repressive countries don't play ads and there advertisement of your talent is about the best they can do but in real open places they can go so far as to carry ads and all.
theguppykillers	Date: August 28, 2002 @ 5:22 PM I may consider letting my music be played on a pirate radio.
pog	Date: August 28, 2002 @ 7:18 PM So long as I'm not signed with anyone, I'd appreciate the free distribution.
GrooveTonic	Date: August 29, 2002 @ 10:56 PM What's a pirate radio!? You mean an unlicensed broadcaster, some underground type thing? hehe I dunno.
BabyZ	Date: August 30, 2002 @ 1:21 AM airplay is airplay no matter how u look at it.
Svensta	Date: August 30, 2002 @ 9:04 AM I don't think you can call it pirate radio, if you are playing unsigned bands with the musicians consent. Sounds like indie commercial free music to me, and that's about all. Good idea though, save that you need lots of green to do this, if you mean actual radio and not internet streamers like Sin City, et al.
wallyadimeck	Date: September 7, 2002 @ 9:01 PM Yeah I'd love to have my music played on pirate radio. Any promotion is good promotion. Get people hearing it, and get people listening to it. If you want to use any of my tracks, please email me first, to gain my permission. Peace.
ChillinBuzz	Date: September 7, 2002 @ 10:13 PM Airplay is very important
theguppykillers	Date: September 7, 2002 @ 10:28 PM hell ya it is
Svensta	Date: September 9, 2002 @ 8:45 AM I'm not a musician, but the business model here screams for exposure, so I would think you should do everything you can to et your earlier stuff out there in everyone's playlist and build up some demand.
mcarp555	Date: September 9, 2002 @ 9:59 AM Well how exactly would this work? Any advertisers lined up? What is your target audience? What kind of format? Unless you plan to play Gansta Rap, then folk, then techno, then bluegrass. How exactly would this compensation work? Would artists need to be affiliated with one of the royalty outfits (BMI, ASCAP, etc.)? There's always a lot more to consider than just Johnnie building a transmitter in the rec room.
RyanS	Date: September 9, 2002 @ 2:40 PM 'm just assuming Zahal wants to set up his own transmitter, and broadcast. It's called "Free Radio".. No commercials, no affilations.. Just pure radio as it was intended. I did this years ago on SW and a little on FM. FM didn't work very well, since I'm in the middle of nowhere, and 20 watts gave me just 10 miles of good coverage. SW on the other hand, gave me a much larger scale of coverage on just 100 watts. Had a QSL from Texas and I'm in Indiana. Ahh, sometimes I miss those days
RyanS	Date: September 9, 2002 @ 2:41 PM Only bad thing about broadcasting on SW was it was in USB, and sounded like lo-fi streams on here.

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