You are not logged in. (Top 4 things bands have put on their websites
1. Moby - Free music for free films
Haven’t tried this one, but a genius idea. Not everyone can compile something like the Garden State soundtrack, so it’s nice to see a well known artist providing something like this.
2. Foo Fighters - Tabs
It’s impossible to find decent accurate tabs on the internet, and I don’t remember the last time I saw sheet music in the shops. Not sure how official this is, but it’s linked to on their site so it counts.
3. Bruce Springsteen - Set lists
Why oh why don’t more artists do this?! People are forever looking for set lists on the internet, so compiling them on the artist website is a really handy reminder for the fans
4. Death Cab for Cutie - Band gear
Interesting to see what the band uses, even if it’s not especially useful (I would kill for a set of Ludwig drums with Paiste Series 20 cymbals, but a. I’m not good enough and b. I’d have to sell my family). Interpol’s list is floating around on Wikipedia, but isn’t on their site.
Any more favourites from band websites that you don’t tend to find elsewhere?
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April 8th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I find pretty good tabs a lot of the time, but I presume you mean drum ones, that’s probably harder.
The gear thing is pretty universal, not usually by the band themselves, but http://www.guitargeek.com/ has a lot of setups on there. Matt Bellamy’s (muse) is pretty cool, for example, but quite out of date, I think.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Fair do’s. Guitar stuff tends to be much easier to find than drums, particularly for gear. Having said that, it’s not normally too hard to work out drum parts.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Hm.. I wish more bands would put their setlists up as well, I’m always terrible at remembering the order!
As for other things… My Ruin always scan in interviews/features from magazines they’ve been in & they have a whole archive of them dating back from when they started. I really like that since I don’t bother buying magazines these days. I don’t think many other bands do that?