I'm Bridget. I'm 24 years old from the Long Island/New York City area.
I have an unhealthy attachment to music and the music industry(seriously) and even 7 years of working around it I'm not burned out or ready for a change.
I honestly can't imagine myself doing anything else ever. Right now I work for a NY-area Festival...and I'd like to parlay that into a career in artist management and eventually "retire" and run my own live music club.
I listen to so many different types of music and bands it would be impossible to list them all - I truly live and breathe the stuff. Most of the stuff I listen to however is steeped deeply in rock, punk, (real)emo and indie.
As for Mr. Cook himself - I'd love to put him in my pocket and hide him from the generic American Idol audience. I thought I was going to fall out of my chair when I put two and two together and realized the kid singing on my TV was the same guy who sang lead in a band my friends and I used to play on our college radio show. But so long as he doesn't somehow spiral into Daughtry v2.0 it's all good.
If you wanna know anything else feel free to message me or IM me if I'm on. I'm always up for talking to other music fans about anything.
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QUOTE (luckystar @ Apr 26 2008, 04:27 PM) 
I'm Bridget. I'm 24 years old from the Long Island/New York City area.
I have an unhealthy attachment to music and the music industry(seriously) and even 7 years of working around it I'm not burned out or ready for a change.
I honestly can't imagine myself doing anything else ever. Right now I work for a NY-area Festival...and I'd like to parlay that into a career in artist management and eventually "retire" and run my own live music club.
I listen to so many different types of music and bands it would be impossible to list them all - I truly live and breathe the stuff. Most of the stuff I listen to however is steeped deeply in rock, punk, (real)emo and indie.
As for Mr. Cook himself - I'd love to put him in my pocket and hide him from the generic American Idol audience. I thought I was going to fall out of my chair when I put two and two together and realized the kid singing on my TV was the same guy who sang lead in a band my friends and I used to play on our college radio show. But so long as he doesn't somehow spiral into Daughtry v2.0 it's all good.
If you wanna know anything else feel free to message me or IM me if I'm on. I'm always up for talking to other music fans about anything.
I have an unhealthy attachment to music and the music industry(seriously) and even 7 years of working around it I'm not burned out or ready for a change.
I honestly can't imagine myself doing anything else ever. Right now I work for a NY-area Festival...and I'd like to parlay that into a career in artist management and eventually "retire" and run my own live music club.
I listen to so many different types of music and bands it would be impossible to list them all - I truly live and breathe the stuff. Most of the stuff I listen to however is steeped deeply in rock, punk, (real)emo and indie.
As for Mr. Cook himself - I'd love to put him in my pocket and hide him from the generic American Idol audience. I thought I was going to fall out of my chair when I put two and two together and realized the kid singing on my TV was the same guy who sang lead in a band my friends and I used to play on our college radio show. But so long as he doesn't somehow spiral into Daughtry v2.0 it's all good.
If you wanna know anything else feel free to message me or IM me if I'm on. I'm always up for talking to other music fans about anything.
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I'm Amy, and I am from New York as well!
I'm Amy, and I am from New York as well!
Hello ;] im in the acting,/ entertainment industry as well (living in CA, but i was born in Conneticut)...welcome <3
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Welcome. I'm Michael, do the best to enjoy. 
Hey Bridget!
I'm in NY, too -- got fam on outer LI, but I'm more upstate myself.
So how did you get access to Axium tracks in NY back then? Is the college band music usually shared somehow across the country? I'm just curious how that works.
I'm in NY, too -- got fam on outer LI, but I'm more upstate myself.
So how did you get access to Axium tracks in NY back then? Is the college band music usually shared somehow across the country? I'm just curious how that works.
QUOTE (piperlily @ Apr 26 2008, 07:16 PM)
So how did you get access to Axium tracks in NY back then? Is the college band music usually shared somehow across the country? I'm just curious how that works.
One of my friends (it was his show, I served as more of a promotions director for him) was super into more "obscure-indie" music and our station at my college didn't care what we played and when we played it. We just had to make sure we played at least 4 of the "in rotation" tracks every hour - so that's on average 15 minutes of music we had to fill with stuff they told us to and 45 we could fill with whatever we wanted.
Axium wasn't even that unknown either. They were considered one of the top unsigned bands in the country in the early 00's so for those of us that were really involved in the music industry (even while still in college) it wasn't an unknown band.
I have a very skewed view on what's "famous/known" and what's not to the general public because I'm exposed to and listen to so much different music because of my job. (ex: everyone keeps talking about how DC doing "Innocent" was a bad idea 'cause "no one knows who Our Lady Peace" is"...and that happens to be one of my very favorite songs ever)
QUOTE (luckystar @ Apr 27 2008, 10:58 AM)
One of my friends (it was his show, I served as more of a promotions director for him) was super into more "obscure-indie" music and our station at my college didn't care what we played and when we played it. We just had to make sure we played at least 4 of the "in rotation" tracks every hour - so that's on average 15 minutes of music we had to fill with stuff they told us to and 45 we could fill with whatever we wanted.
Axium wasn't even that unknown either. They were considered one of the top unsigned bands in the country in the early 00's so for those of us that were really involved in the music industry (even while still in college) it wasn't an unknown band.
I have a very skewed view on what's "famous/known" and what's not to the general public because I'm exposed to and listen to so much different music because of my job. (ex: everyone keeps talking about how DC doing "Innocent" was a bad idea 'cause "no one knows who Our Lady Peace" is"...and that happens to be one of my very favorite songs ever)
Axium wasn't even that unknown either. They were considered one of the top unsigned bands in the country in the early 00's so for those of us that were really involved in the music industry (even while still in college) it wasn't an unknown band.
I have a very skewed view on what's "famous/known" and what's not to the general public because I'm exposed to and listen to so much different music because of my job. (ex: everyone keeps talking about how DC doing "Innocent" was a bad idea 'cause "no one knows who Our Lady Peace" is"...and that happens to be one of my very favorite songs ever)
mine too
So what's your take on why they never got signed?
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