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Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further
- Flemlord 18y agoThere's a fine line between clever promo and desperate.
- andreyf 18y ago$600/hour to make phone calls to people who'll tell you how great you are? $75k to work a 24-hour work week for a month? I'll take that kind of desperation any day.
- rms 18y agoIt's supposed to be funny.
- jskopek 18y agoHe's actually pricing himself pretty low here. Can you imagine the publicity a band would get if they actually hired him to tour for 5 months?
- unalone 18y agoI'd also imagine that if he really sells these deals he'll find it extremely fun. I mean, if these sales get completed he'll get to spend a few months doing a ton of crazy weird things.
- rms 18y agoI would be surprised if they don't sell. Some Disney fan will get the 10k package for dinner at Club 33. This package is cheaper than a membership there. And the 20k and 75k packages come with members of Tool. Josh Freese may be very talented and almost-famous, but the members of Tool and very talented with some incredibly obsessive (and surely some rich) fans.
- mattmaroon 18y agoLet's be honest, he's not Trent Reznor. How many people have even heard this guy's name before? "Hey man, come check out my band, we got the drummer from NiN playing with us" isn't going to get you very far.
- yan 18y agoI'd argue most musicians, especially drummers, have definitely heard of him. He's a very famous drummer.
- wheels 18y agoWell, this itself is a great PR stunt.
- Dilpil 18y agoI was wondering when celebrities would start doing this. It seemed inevitable that celebrities eventually cash in on their immense social capitol.
- wallflower 18y agoEverything has a price. Which is why I think we tend to be friends with people around our income level. Can you imagine the awkwardness of 'I'll get this lunch' with a millionaire friend? I have a couple friends who work in the world of donors and charitable giving. Want to be "Chair" of the big society event? Even though its not explicitly stated, that comes hand-in-hand with a sizable donation. 5 figures usually. Sometimes the New Money doesn't understand that protocol - Old Money knows the dance steps.
- wheels 18y agoMillionaire ain't what it used to be, and lunch is still lunch. I have rich friend and I have broke friends and we still buy each other lunch.
- tdavis 18y agoMust find $20,000... must miniature golf with Maynard... This is a really good idea I think, although he's probably getting ripped off on some of them. It's cool to see musicians looking "outside the box" for ways to cash in; ways that don't involve the RIAA.
- timcederman 18y agoHaha... imagine how creepy/awkward it would be. Still, I'll go halves with you if you're interested. Otherwise a ride in Danny's Lamborghini also sounds good.
- electromagnetic 18y agoHow much would people be paying to spend the opening week of a tour with Metallica or their favorite band? Gene Simmons says he can make a million dollars a night for doing a concert, but he could probably get another million for just letting some people hang out with him on tour, and I think everyone on the planet knows that Gene Simmons would do virtually anything for a penny.
- mattmaroon 18y agoI thought NiNs drummer was a keyboard.
- rms 18y agoNIN in the studio is basically just Trent Reznor. Live it is a full band.
- yan 18y agoAlso calling Josh Freese just "NIN's drummer" is not very accurate. Freese did play with them on occasion, including the recent amazing Lights in the Sky tour, he is still one of the most accomplished studio drummers in the business. The man is a drumming machine and is extremely famous in his own right. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Freese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Freese)
- wheels 18y agoDave Groll played drums on most of the tracks on With Teeth. The "keyboard" for NIN's drum programming is mostly Battery from Native Instruments (where I worked before founding Directed Edge).
- gb 18y agoI'm surprised how many of the replies here assume he's being serious!