ASCAPlus Award
Each year ASCAP, The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, selects ASCAP Plus Award winners from its huge member database. Winners are chosen on merit; activity generated by the member’s catalog; and the song catalog’s unique prestige value.
Well that is how the program is described anyway :) I was awarded an ASCAPlus Award for 2010-2010-2011-2012-2013!
Pretty Cool :)
Each year ASCAP, The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, selects ASCAP Plus Award winners from its huge member database. Winners are chosen on merit; activity generated by the member’s catalog; and the song catalog’s unique prestige value.
Well that is how the program is described anyway :) I was awarded an ASCAPlus Award for 2010-2010-2011-2012-2013!
Pretty Cool :)
Seriously, congratulations. I feel pretty stupid having never listened to anything you'd ever done. And in several short days, have tried to catch up. All I can say is it's great. And then finding the blog. Your writing is equally cool. Totally, love though, your videos. Well done. Please, consider me a fan.
ReplyDeleteIt’s the funniest thing; I’ve been sitting here in my office with your song “More Than I Can” going through my head for an hour and I decided to go on a treasure hunt for your video on Google. Brought back cool memories.
ReplyDeleteYou see, back in 1997 I was the first employee of an EARLY Internet startup called Skunk technologies. We were BLEEDING edge, doing shit that wouldn’t be commonplace for over a decade. It was Internet World ’97 in Los Angeles and we decided to throw an after-party. We rented the Whiskey-a-GoGo on Sunset for the event, called all the hottest girls we knew from college (most of us were still in school) and went searching for a band.
The party was a BLAST!!! The line was down the block. Hot chicks, important Internet players, booze flowing like water, cigars, it was our PEAK!!! We’d just raised $1.2 million in angel funding (un-heard of in those days) and were being courted by a VC for $20 million. Bill Gates was actually concerned about us and called his friends at Intel to help squash us like a bug (successfully). We were kings of all creation.
Anyway, before the party I remember sitting on a bean bag in the conference room off Santa Monica blvd. reviewing videos from bands we were considering to play the show. It came down to you and Red Five. I didn’t like Red Five. Their music was just “whatever.” When I saw your video I was like “WHOA DUDES, we GOT to get those guys to play! WASSUP? Drop some coin and let’s make it happen.” Everybody agreed. We watched your video “More Than I Can” one more time just to sit and rock out to it.
In the end, it wasn’t meant to be. Your manager (incorrectly) advised you that playing a party for a bunch of “geeks” after some irrelevant technology conference would only sour your career. I guess he wasn’t aware that the Internet was about to become the coolest thing since...well, ever! We were crushed. We signed up Red Five and they did a great job, but I’ve always wondered what it would have been like if we’d been able to wise your manager up to the tsunami that was coming.
Oh well; thirteen years later I’m between conference calls and “More Than I Can” is going through my head. Luckily I remembered enough of the lyrics to do a Google search. Found the song, the band, the YouTube video, your Facebook, your website, your email, and now I’ve wasted 20 minutes telling you how much I love that song and wish you could have been there to help us celebrate the birth of the interactive web. Skunk went down in flames a year later, but we live on in spirit. All the players are older now, more mature, kids, careers, etc. but whenever I think of those days, I remember your song.
Cheers!
Daryl Acumen
Manager, Global Search Analytics
Office of Digital Strategy
Corporate Marketing
Hewlett-Packard