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I did a design for a PA badge and sent my suggestions to  M@x some time ago, but he never got back to me about it.

Edited by mystic fred - December 18 2009 at 06:43

Yes. Yes you can.

I really recommend http://www.shirtcity.us ... a nice purple shirt with a orange text is quickly set up, and M@x could create his own store there and get referral fees.

Edited by Mr ProgFreak - December 15 2009 at 07:23

snobb wrote: But we are discussing things at the fantasy level. If decision-makers are interested, there is some ground to work. If not - it is just useless bla..bla..bla..

Isn't all we do on PA just useless bla-bla? That's what I always thought, and I've always enjoyed it I never come to PA for serious bla-bla

BTW our forum colleague Angelo was planning to start a record label dedicated to exactly this - re-releasing lost gems and rare editions. I don't know what happened since he doesn't visit PA too much any more.

there are some decisons possible ( absolutely legal for sure), but not with any band . if idea works, we can discuss some details

harmonium.ro wrote: snobb wrote: Another related question - don't believe it wasn't asked before, but I possibly just missed it. Was there any ideas about release of so,me PA music CD's , rarities re-release,limited editions,etc? There are huge amount of members and we have perfect market research (using voting, album rating,etc). I believe that it will be interesting for many members just to have some interesting rare musical releases,released by PA. I am in business development around 20 yrs, may be it is a reason why I am asking such kind of question. Technical part is not a problem, don't believe there are not specialists in that are between PA-people. ( My friends own small idependent label, so I know all their kitchen as well - not a big deal). If this idea will be interesting for site Team, I believe it is not a big problem just to prepare some blueprint for realisation.     This is a very good question; I've also thought about this. The main problem is that by trying to promote various bands (with PA compilations for example) means dealing with materials whose copyright is owned by various companies/persons etc.; it's very complicated, it can be done, but a team is necessary (plenty of lawyers and accountants especially). The costs in this kind of strategy are way too high for PA. Re-releasing rarities and out of print albums would be a better strategy. In this case you deal with less copyright owners (probably just one for each album). The problem is here that someone still has to invest quite a lot before with the hope that the money will return; pre-orders would be a good idea (who wouldn't have preordered a reissue of Anglagard's Hybris a year ago, for example? BTW it's been re-released in the meantime). One other problem would be that most likely many such materials would need remastering, which I suppose is expensive. Signing new bands is the most difficult strategy, because this implies investing a lot in the production of the material (which is not already recorded like in the case above) and marketing (because the band would not be already known, like in the case above). In our case we have a niche market so this makes things a bit easier, but provides lesser incomes.

I can see it now..."A ProgArchives exclusive, I'm pleased to announce the Wakeman Cape!"

I'm keen on a Dave Stewart tea set, but I'll take a t-shirt or two

snobb wrote: Another related question - don't believe it wasn't asked before, but I possibly just missed it. Was there any ideas about release of so,me PA music CD's , rarities re-release,limited editions,etc? There are huge amount of members and we have perfect market research (using voting, album rating,etc). I believe that it will be interesting for many members just to have some interesting rare musical releases,released by PA. I am in business development around 20 yrs, may be it is a reason why I am asking such kind of question. Technical part is not a problem, don't believe there are not specialists in that are between PA-people. ( My friends own small idependent label, so I know all their kitchen as well - not a big deal). If this idea will be interesting for site Team, I believe it is not a big problem just to prepare some blueprint for realisation.

This is a very good question; I've also thought about this. The main problem is that by trying to promote various bands (with PA compilations for example) means dealing with materials whose copyright is owned by various companies/persons etc.; it's very complicated, it can be done, but a team is necessary (plenty of lawyers and accountants especially). The costs in this kind of strategy are way too high for PA.

Re-releasing rarities and out of print albums would be a better strategy. In this case you deal with less copyright owners (probably just one for each album). The problem is here that someone still has to invest quite a lot before with the hope that the money will return; pre-orders would be a good idea (who wouldn't have preordered a reissue of Anglagard's Hybris a year ago, for example? BTW it's been re-released in the meantime). One other problem would be that most likely many such materials would need remastering, which I suppose is expensive.

Signing new bands is the most difficult strategy, because this implies investing a lot in the production of the material (which is not already recorded like in the case above) and marketing (because the band would not be already known, like in the case above). In our case we have a niche market so this makes things a bit easier, but provides lesser incomes.