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A View From Cyberspace - PlanetWebSite Review's CDBaby.com

I found some really great words for budding musicians while surfing the Webisphere. As a matter of fact, these words are great for any aspiring artist or craftsman looking to get off the dole and live an independant life brimming with freedom and liberty. His name is Derek Sivers and he is the founder and webmaster of CDBaby.com

"This is my best advice for my fellow musicians, about how to call attention to your music.

A quick bit of background, so you know where I'm coming from:

I started making a living as a musician in 1988, while I was at Berklee College of Music. I got my first paying job playing guitar at a pig show in Vermont. I joined a circus for 10 years. Moved to New York City, and worked at Warner Brothers Music. Played guitar for Ryuichi Sakamoto - (sold-out 10,000 seat auditoriums at the age of 22! whoo-hoo!). Quit my last day job in 1992, and vowed to make a living making music. Produced people's records. Played on people's records. Ran a recording studio. Composed music for TV. Put together a band that got into the well-paying college market. Performed over 1000 shows as the frontman. Learned how to entertain a crowd. I was pretty successful at it. I actually bought a house with the money I made from my music.

In 1997, I built a website to sell my CD. It was so expensive to get a credit card merchant account and build a shopping cart, that, when I was done, a few of my musician friends asked if I could sell their CD on my website, too. (Since I had already done all the work.) I did it as a favor, but soon it became so popular, just by word-of-mouth, that I gave it its own domain name : cdbaby.com

Like a first-time parent, something in my head switched : I had spent my whole life so far putting all my energy into ME. MY music. Me me me me. But now, with CD Baby, I wanted to tell other musicians everything I had learned. I wanted to help them have their “day in the sun” - to make a living making their music. I cared more about their music than mine.

So - I've thrown myself into CD Baby completely, ever since. It's been amazing to watch as many CD Baby artists who used to send me boxes of 10-30 CDs have gone on to huge worldwide multi-platinum success. It's been even MORE amazing to watch the THOUSANDS of musicians who are happier than ever, making money making their own music, without having to sign their life and copyrights over to a big corporation.

So - my advice here is a combination of my advice from my own experience, and my advice from watching the experiences of other successful musicians.

I never intended to sell my advice. I just want musicians to succeed. So - feel free to pass this around to anyone. Email it to your friends. Paste it into your blog or bulletin board.

--
Derek Sivers
CD Baby (cdbaby.com) - sales and distribution for musicians
HostBaby (hostbaby.com) - web hosting for musicians "

Thanks to Derek for his contribution to helping evolve the lives of those who strive for brilliance! Read more of Derek's tips, thoughts and aricles at CDBaby.net

And thanks to my friend and thriving musician John Reno, whose website JohnReno.com I was surfing when I stumbled upon CDBaby.com

Rocket Johnson Reporting
from the Global Webisphere

This is the letter that Nurse Brenda and I are sending to our congressmen regarding the FDA's sneaky, underhanded plot to destroy natural medicine in this country....

Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.

Please do not support this action! Please put a stop to this outrageous effort to destroy natural medicine!

Under the proposed guidelines, FDA "experts" (the same corrupt officials who re-approved Vioxx after it killed over 50,000 Americans) will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple devices like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical devices. If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of existence. Anyone who dares to manufacture, promote or sell such products may be branded a criminal and rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well established history of suppressing natural medicine...

It is very clear that the FDA is intending to regulate and ultimately destroy the entire CAM industry (Complementary and Alternative Medicine).

Based on the explanations in the FDA's own document, the following things are likely to occur:

All vitamins, nutritional supplements and functional foods will be stripped of their structure & function claims, reducing them to empty labels where virtually nothing at all is allowed to be stated.

• Vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug. Raw juice retreats will be raided or shut down.
  Growing and selling common garden herbs will get you arrested as a drug dealer.
• Massage oils and handheld massagers will be regulated as "medical devices."
• Yoga props, pilates machines and weight machines will be regulated as "medical devices" and require FDA approval before being sold or used.
• Raw sprouts and other anti-cancer foods will be regulated as drugs.
• Bottled water that "treats" dehydration will be regulated as a drug.
• Massage therapists who use hot rocks as part of their therapy will have the ROCKS regulated as medical devices! (It's true. The FDA will actually look at a pile of rocks and declare, "Those are medical devices!")
• Functional foods, supplements, vitamins and homeopathic remedies will disappear from store shelves, pending FDA "review." (The only things remaining will be processed junk foods and pharmaceuticals, which is exactly what Big Business wants.)
• Therapeutic tea products, such as green tea, will be outlawed and confiscated.
• Vitamin store owners will be arrested and prosecuted for "practicing medicine without a license."
• Citizens owning personal inventories of "unapproved drugs" (vitamins and herbs) may have their homes raided at gunpoint and their inventories confiscated by armed law enforcement agents.
• The importation of herbs and functional foods from all countries may be banned.

Imagine a nation where Whole Foods stores are stripped of all herbs and supplements, where vitamin shops are emptied and abandoned, where books that promote herbs are bulldozed into large piles and burned, where natural healers are rounded up and "disappear" into incarceration centers.

This is the future that will become reality if the FDA has its way. The plan has been explained to us in plain language. Any agency that openly states "vegetable juice will be regulated as a drug" has quite simply lost its marbles. We are now clearly being regulated by clinically insane bureaucrats.

Please don't side with the clinically insane bureaucrats! Make Alabama Proud!

Spiritually yours,
Rocket Johnson
and
The Reverend Brenda Shoop, BSN, RN
The Green Earth Ministries

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Over & Out!

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Here is a fun little review comment I've posted to after watching Steven Cobert (of The Cobert Report on Comedy Central) squares off with Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of The Drug Policy Alliance. If you didn't catch the show, you can click here and view it on YouTube.com

It's wasn't quite the dialog I was expecting, but it was rivoting none the less. I am sure I would have found it a little more comical if I had ever watched the show all the way through before.

Click view the discussion tread - Steven vs. Ethan

Intelligent men should know right from wrong...Prohibition is wrong!

Rocket Johnson Reporting

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