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This Week ON Tonight Live
This week 13th September on “Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe” 6pm slt at The Tonight Live Studio
Nasus Dumart and her partner Apple MacKay are co-authors of the latest book on Second Life® Titled “The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Buisness In The Virtual World of Second Life®”
Apple owns Molaskey’s Pub in partnership with Katydid Something – Nassus is the Director of Marketing for Molaskey’s Pub and Producer / Host of The Guest Lecture Series. What makes a successful business in Second Life, and who is achieving this and how?
We also meet Niles Compton a Country Music Singer who has been a musician all his working life. His band was one of the starter bands at a Johnny Cash concert. His voice has been described as one of the “best voices” you will ever hear.
If you are in the Music scene in Second Life and haven’t heard about Mankind Tracers proposition to the music industry for “pay for entry” Venue arrangements, then you don’t spend enough time here in Second Life…Some love the idea, some hate it and have had very passionate and some violent reactions to it. Mankind has held a few concerts now under his newly proposed system, and had time to process the feedback from the community both Musicians Agents and Venue owners. I’ll be asking Mankind some tough questions about his proposal, and catching up with the result in his experience, of this new system of asking audience members at music venues to pay a fee to stay and listen to his concerts. If audiences refuse to pay they can be under this new system be ejected from the venue. Mankind Tracer is considered to be the highest profile and most popular Musician in Second Life, he feels he is taking a huge risk to that popularity by implementing his new system. How is it going so far?
Considered by WHOM to be the “highest profile and most popular” in Second Life? That’s hyperbole at its finest.
Numbers Bud pure numbers I didn’t say Best I said most popular. Might be a toss up between him and Max Kleene. Unless he has a group full of bots, I will give him and his team the benifit of the doubt.
“Ticketed events” are nothing new in Second Life. There have been many, over the years, which have enabled the option in land settings to sell passes for access to clubs and events. Has this been a successful way to generate revenues? I will let the distinct lack of the green ban lines, answer that! And, Tracer certainly isn’t breaking any new ground with his “CCS” (Cover Charge System), which works in the same way as many security HUDs worn by bouncers all over the grid.
Tracer, who admits that he once believed performances should be free, is selling the idea off the back of story that it is helping the venues. Seeing himself as an “international star” (after a trip to Amsterdam), his ego is driving him to dictate terms to the masses, plump up his bank account and even, possibly, to try and make his “CCS” the de rigueur solution to ejecting freeloaders from events.
Early signs haven’t looked so good for Tracer. The cover charge amounts have dropped over the last few events as the numbers of people attending appear to have fallen.
It’s not that I have a problem with performers (or venues) charging, per se. My issue is with people grabbing at the money, whilst forgetting they are, mostly, performing covers of tracks that they haven’t got a public performance license for. Maybe once this hierocracy (& illegality) is addressed, more people will be happy to put their hands in their pockets.
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Maybe once this *hypocrisy* (& illegality) is addressed, more people will be happy to put their hands in their pockets.