This will be my final post for my "Crazy Like A Fox" blog. I will return to finish the post once the Cd is officially released. If all goes well, I am hoping that this will be around the first, or second, week of October. Just in time for Halloween, and the holidays !!!
8-30-10 (6:00 a.m.) I had to keep riding out the momentum wave. I just spent the last 3 hours adding the "Crazy Like A Fox" Cd lyrics to my website (www.foxmanmusic.com). The site now contains the lyrics for all 32 of my songs (from 3 Cd's) and 1 poem. Once the Cd is replicated, I will upload a photo of the front cover to my site. There will also be plenty of links to my art studio (www.foxman.etsy.com), where the Cd's will be made available for purchase. I am going to charge $15 per Cd, which includes the S&H fees. The in person charge will be $13.
9-16-10, I just gave my final approval for the Cd to be replicated. It will take about 2-3 weeks until the copies are available through my art studio. I have everything completed with the copyrights, and my application to join ASCAP has been received. All the Cd lyrics are available at my home website. Once the Cd's arrive I will send out 2 copies to set up digital distribution through ReverbNation. This will allow me to sell my tunes as downloads through iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and others. The Cd lyrics are already available at my home website (as advertised in the Cd sleeve). I think I pretty much have everything finished. All I have left to do is to finish up with ASCAP (once I am accepted), and that's it. Yes !!!
9-18-10, YES ! I just got accepted to ASCAP !! All I have to do is register my works through my members access page and that's it, I'm good to go !!
9-21-10, I am going to have to do some editing to my various websites to include the new Cd release. This won't be overly time consuming and it will give me something to do while I wait for the copies to arrive. I am happy that I have chosen to keep things nice and simple. The Cd will only be available through my art studio (www.etsy.com). I will need to make sure that all of my websites have a link to this site.
9-23-10, I've pretty much got the websites up to date. I'll just have to make a few adjustments once the copies arrive. I'm still waiting for the ASCAP members package to arrive. For fun, I was working on some Graffiti art at my brother Tim's house today. So far I've spray painted a Rays logo and a Bucaneers logo on the wall. They wanted to try something different on the walls in their rec room, and I was up to the challenge. I can't say the work is anything professional, but it is a lot of fun.
* An interesting aside: I received a friend request a few days ago from American Idol at My Space. Today I received a friend request from Ryan Seacrest. I am starting to wonder if maybe an acquaintance of mine sent a Cd to them ? It's flattering to think about, but I don't have the vocal range to compete on Idol. Besides, I've already released my own Cd's. If this is what's happening, then I am already starting to generate some notoriety. Yikes !!!
9-27-10, I just received word from Jennifer at Total Media that my Cd's will be available by Thursday, or Friday, of this week (today is Monday). This means that my "Crazy Like A Fox" Cd will be officialy released on October 1, 2010 ! I have also figured out how to register my songs with ASCAP. I am very happy because this will give me a project to work on while I wait for the Cd's to arrive. The timing of everything is absolutely perfect !
9-30-10, I didn't realize that tomorrow (Friday) is actually October 1. I have a feeling the girls at Total Media will be giving me a call, at some point, to let me know my Cd's have arrived. I had one little detail to take care of with my Pay Pal account. I needed to add my confirmation code to validify my credit card. About 3 weeks ago I authorized Pay Pal to make the $1 charge to my account to generate the code. The 4 digit code then appears on my credit card statement next to the payment info. Well my statement arrived today, I entered the confirmation code into my account, and everything is good to go. Once again, the timing is perfect. I have also decided that I will also make my Cd's available through ebay. I think this will end up being a wise because most people probably aren't very familiar with Etsy. With both outlets, Pay Pal is going to be an important element for the transactions. I'm glad to have this minor detail taken care of. One other decision I have made is that, besides selling the "Crazy Like A Fox" Cd for $15 individaually, I will also sell a set containing all 3 of my Cd's for $25. I am also going to deactivate all the artwork in my Etsy site, so that the Cd's will be the featured items. Once it gets closer to the holidays I will reactivate the artwork.
10-1-10 (4:20 a.m.) Dang, here it is, the day that my "Crazy Like A Fox" Cd gets released. Since I have to be at Total Media around 1:00, you would think I should be sound asleep by now. Wrong ! I decide to stay up until the wee hours of the morning getting my websites ready to. You Tube and My Space are completly finished. I also have the profile bio's at Etsy and ebay completed. My priorities after I get home tomorrow afternoon will be to update ReverbNation, IMRadio and Bebo. This will only take about 1 hour. After that I need to take a photo of the new Cd and one of all 3 Cd's together, so I can start stocking my shops at Etsy and ebay. Once I get this completed it will be time to start posting the Cd's official release on Facebook, Twitter, My Space and Bebo. At ReverbNation I will send out an e-mail to all of my fans announcing the release. I think it sounds like a pretty good plan of attack for day #1. (11:00 p.m.) I picked up my Cd's and am totally pleased with everything. Total Media did an excellent job. I've pretty much got all my websites up to date with links to etsy and ebay. I sent out as many emails as possible to announce the release of "Crazy Like A Fox". The only setback I have encountered today is that my home website www.foxmanmusic.com is down. It's kind of a bummer, but I'm not going to let it ruin such an awesome day ! I sent an email out to the Yahoo's Web Hosting team and I'm sure they will get back to me when the weekend is over. No matter what the situation is, I will get the site back up and running. The negative is that I may have to totally redo everything, including rewriting all the lyrics. Oh well, it will give me something to do. Well, that's it for this post !
* Everything is alright with my home website. It ended up being a temporary glitch that occured at Yahoo over the weekend. Everything at foxmanmusic.com is now up to date and ready to roll ! I am very thank ful I don't have to type in all those lyrics again ... whew !
UPDATE (2-16-14): All songs from my "Crazy Like A Fox" Cd can be heard in their entirety through the tune player below. Please make sure to also visit my home website at: www.foxmanmusic.com
About Me
- Foxman Music
- Tampa Bay, Florida, United States
- My name is Brian Fox (aka Foxman) & I am an Independent artist, songwriter, photographer & actor from the Tampa Bay area. In 2001, I founded Foxman Music & began writing/releasing my own albums. I currently have 6 albums to my credit & am working on the 7th, titled 'Hit List'. I am best known for being a creative writer & a witty lyricist who employs a bit of a Hollywood approach, which means that I don't always write through my own eyes. I'm the primary musician (bass, guitars, keys and percussion) and vocalist on all of my releases. Outside of the music, I'm a semi-accomplished artist and I've also had background acting roles in 2 Netflix movies (Bloodline & The Last Thing He Wanted).