The Indiana Music Archive and Online Community
-
Jeb Banner
- 38, Male
- Indianapolis
- United States
- Share
- Share on Twitter
- Share on Facebook
- Blog Posts (140)
- Discussions (136)
- Events (1)
- Groups (22)
- Photos (409)
- Photo Albums (7)
- Videos (37)
Jeb Banner's Groups
-
Avant/Outsider Music Gro…
26 members
-
WQAX
48 members
-
Jewdaic Rock Fans Anonym…
38 members
-
Christian Rock Fans Anon…
34 members
-
Eloidfest
21 members
Jeb Banner's Videos
-
United States Three- c.1999
Added by Jeb Banner
-
-
Jeb Banner's Events
-
Carl Broemel w/ Brando, Cabin
October 7, 2010 from 8pm to 11pm – Radio Radio
Jeb Banner's Discussions
What the Fluck? I
Replied May 28
greetings fellow MFTers!
Jeb Banner's Photos
Profile Information
- What Instrument(s) Do You Play
- Guitar, Bass, Keys, Voice
- About Me
- I'm the dude that created this site, with the help of our friends at Ning.com, and started up Musicalfamilytree.com the MP3 archive back in 2004 or so. I'm married to my wonderful wife Jenny, have three awesome girls who are crazy and run a web business in Broad Ripple with some friends called Small Box.
Welcome to the site!
- What bands are you or have you been in?
- Neo Elvis Trash, Meathead and the Tapeworm, Kadath, Sleeve, Soda Jerks, The Staple Guns, Brando, Polyvinyl, Special Machine, Gummy Mummies, Admiral Stereo and the Phantom Third Channel, The Davenports, Easy 6, Winechuggers, The Humans (current)...
- What city are you from?
- Indianapolis now, South Bend most of childhood, Chicago until 6 years old and then 96-97, Bloomington 92-96
- Original Hometown
- South Bend/Chicago
- MySpace Page
- http://myspace.com/musicalfamilytree
- Website:
- http://www.smallboxweb.com
Latest Activity
I'm all for MFT and the artists both making some money whether it's NP or not. I'm glad there is another way of getting us out there.
If I would have sold an album in the 80s, I remember most little labels and artists would be happy to sell their t…
PJ- I thought of that too! I could use a new Ping hat.
We aren't too far down the road of the NP thing to turn back. But John is right, if we can find a way to funnel money to artists then I'm all about having MFT make some of that transaction. It…
You mean start doing deals for the archive? Wow, I'm biting my tongue on that one (or I should anyway). But I can think of some ways to do it - even if it is under a non-profit umbrella. I mean, BMI and ASCAP are non-profit, right? (right)...and the…
"Once MFT starts promoting our huge catalog, we might be able to actually benefit the artist and monetize our own efforts."
I'm not sure you guys can do that with a non-profit status. Better to find out now before you finalize such a thing. Don't c…
And then right on cue I had a phone call with iFanz in LA. It's a subsidiary of McCartney Multimedia.
I think Ping has a much greater chance of disrupting what they do. And Jeb does this remind you of us meeting at the Collins Library? I was workin…
This would be awesome if it facilitated MFT members to be able to sell digital downloads through the itunes store bringing money back to the artist. Think of all the out of print and rare material that would be made instantly available.
Or alternat…
It's still a walled garden if you can only access it through the iTunes software. It may work as a customized recommendation service, but on the same level as friends and recommendations in eMusic. Maybe if it connected to Twitter or Facebook, it wo…
I agree John. I don't think we will be looking at a real threat to this community/archive but I am curious how we can leverage this new tool for bands.
Talk about being too big. Why would I want to deali with a 160 million users? That's not a community, that's a planet.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/itunes-ping/Apple is looking to play in the music network waters. This could be a MySpace killer. Could it be an MFT killer? Or could it be a powerful tool to take the MFT archive and present it in front of a larger…
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/itunes-ping/Apple is looking to play in the music network waters. This could be a MySpace killer. Could it be an MFT killer? Or could it be a powerful tool to take the MFT archive and present it in front of a larger…
It's more about quality of conversation than number of members.
I just want to keep a good signal to noise ratio and so far I think we are doing that but thought it would be a time to bring it up since we hit that 2000 milestone.
What is the down-side of having more members, in reality? I'm just guessing, but I'd bet that 10% of the users account for 90% of the activity. Do inactive members suck up any bandwidth?
Thanks for your feedback. Looks like we will continue to screen those wanting to join the site and focus on quality over quantity but not because we don't mind getting bigger, just not for "bigness" sake.
Not sure how you "gently" bump an inactive member from the site, Maybe wait for two years of inactivity?? I know I don't bother to log in most of the time, unless I am going to post a comment or whatever.
More is better. 2000 is not a lot of people…
I too come down on the more is better side. the highly-active members of any online community tend to be a small percentage anyway and the larger the member base the greater the potential for surprises, active changes in the site's direction, more d…
Jeb Banner's Blog
Apple's Ping Music Network- Good, Bad, Genius or Evil? MySpace killer?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/itunes-ping/
Apple is looking to play in the music network waters. This could be a MySpace killer.
Could it be an MFT killer? Or could it be a powerful tool to take the MFT archive and present it in front o… Continue
Posted on September 1, 2010 at 2:42pm — 9 Comments
2000 MFT Members begs a question- How big is too big?
We just passed the 2000 mark for members on this site.
Although I know that only a small percentage of the members visit the site on a daily basis I have begun wondering, should we cap membership on this site at some point in order to keep the quality of conversations as high as possible.
So is we decided that the site should only have 2000 members we could let in new ones as inactive ones were gently "bumped" from the site.
I don't want this to be exclusive club but I also worry that growth,… Continue
Although I know that only a small percentage of the members visit the site on a daily basis I have begun wondering, should we cap membership on this site at some point in order to keep the quality of conversations as high as possible.
So is we decided that the site should only have 2000 members we could let in new ones as inactive ones were gently "bumped" from the site.
I don't want this to be exclusive club but I also worry that growth,… Continue
Posted on August 30, 2010 at 1:43pm — 14 Comments
Pecha Kucha 8/27- Vinyl Records in 20 Slides
I just found out that my offer to present on vinyl records- their history, how they are made, why they rock, etc. was accepted by Pecha Kucha.
I presented on MFT at the last one and I really wish I had videotaped it since I think it went well. I could share the slides but they wouldn't make a ton of sense. Hopefully this presentation I can have the presence of mind to record.
Any input… Continue
Posted on August 23, 2010 at 9:18am — 1 Comment
Small Box Web Blog
Comment Wall (303 comments)
- At 5:02pm on August 30, 2010,
Lindsay Manfredi said… - :) Is relentless a good word? I'm thinking more like, would HATE for you to miss something so fun!
- At 2:03pm on August 30, 2010,
Lindsay Manfredi said…
- sweet. ness. :)
oh, and speaking of sweet. 9/11
just saying. ;)
- At 12:39pm on August 11, 2010,
Frankie Camaro said…
- Cool I'm glad thanks. Yes, use it for the site promos, as that's why I did it. I wanted to make a few different ones with different styles of music. Or maybe this would get other people the idea to do one themselves.
I also have a project I want to do of collaboration. I'll upload a guitar part, then someone else can add a bass line, etc... and we can write songs together with different members, then publish them. And maybe people can vote on the best mixes or parts until we are happy with the song.
- At 2:46pm on May 21, 2010,
Frankie Camaro said…
- Let's get a hold of everyone we know like the editor of the IDS Jonathon. How about Conan O'Brien, and Andy Richter? His dad was a prof at IU and I had a beer or 2 with him when he visited a couple of times. I introduced him to Leo Cook in Bloomington as the funniest guy in Bloomington and Leo never forgave me haha.
Leo and I are talking about a Garlic Festival in Bloomington with music and food.
Neil Sharrow who was a manager at WQAX was a TV producer in Cincinatti, but I'm not sure if he is still. I played with him in my first band The QAX Pistols and we did TV themes, surf, and 60's garage mash ups. Like we did Pink Out, where we played Wipe Out and the Pink Panther theme over it.
Jim Manion at WFHB in Bloomington is the 70's expert down there for bands like The Screaming Gypsy Bandits.
Bob Richert ( Is that the spelling?) also from Gulcher knows well that era.
I contacted the drummer from Guided by Voices in Dayton, Don Thrasher. He writes for one of the Dayton arts publications. I've also sent this site to many friends in Austin.
- At 9:48am on May 21, 2010,
Marvin P. Goldstein said… - http://cgi.ebay.com/Gentlemen-Bleu-Indiana-garage-rock-psyche-Trump-htf-/120571871207?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item1c12a4bfe7
Check this out! $400,000 Buy It Now?
- At 8:50pm on May 20, 2010,
Kevin Seal said… - Uvula! Yes yes. I still have my CD copy of "About What You'd Expect" right here. As well as the Flattus album, and Fambooey's "Succulent."
- At 4:39pm on May 20, 2010,
Kevin Seal said…
- oh, and you're quite welcome! ;) if there's anything else i can do to help, please let me know. what you guys are doing is really excellent.
- At 4:38pm on May 20, 2010,
Kevin Seal said…
- We should find Jonathan Cohen -- former editor of the IDS in Bloomington, now the music booker for the Jimmy Fallon Show. He was at Billboard before that. Would love to hear what he has to say about this stuff...
- At 10:48am on May 10, 2010,
Kurt/Yukki said…
- "Hoelessness" Nice!
Uh...hoMelessness...
I don't want to alleviate hoes.
- At 10:47am on May 10, 2010,
Kurt/Yukki said…
- Hi Jeb,
I hope your yard sale went well and you raised millions of dollars to pay off your credit card and cure cancer and alliviate hoelessness.
A quick thought: I was looking in the MFT Store and thought it might be a good idea to put some samples in the description field for people to hear stuff without clicking away from the page.
No biggie, just a thought. I don't even know if it's possible.
Love, Yuk
Here doggy!
New Music
Latest Activity
This is Mars Needs Women's, first band name. We got our flyers torn down Kirkwood by some Jaycee guy I remember, wearing his little red vest.
hahahaha Calvert. that's hilarious
I'm all for MFT and the artists both making some money whether it's NP or not. I'm glad there is another way of getting us out there.
If I would have sold an album in the 80s, I remember most little labels and artists would be happy to sell their t…
PJ- I thought of that too! I could use a new Ping hat.
We aren't too far down the road of the NP thing to turn back. But John is right, if we can find a way to funnel money to artists then I'm all about having MFT make some of that transaction. It…
I tried to watch 100 Ways but I could feel my life force draining. Haven't the Japanese made some horror films about this video?
MFT Friends
Musical Family Tree is brought to you by the good people at
Mastering by Mahern Audio
Stone Coasters
Party Supplies
Indianapolis Realtors
Above Ground Swimming Pools
Quality Painting by Chris Duggan Indianapolis
Indianapolis Locksmiths
Lake Art
Mastering by Mahern Audio
Stone Coasters
Party Supplies
Indianapolis Realtors
Above Ground Swimming Pools
Quality Painting by Chris Duggan Indianapolis
Indianapolis Locksmiths
Lake Art
© 2010 Musical Family Tree is brought to you by Small Box Web Design & SEO Indianapolis
Powered by 
.
