<html>
<body>
<br>
Joe's work was all public, or at leat 95% of if was, due to the<br>
dilligent efforts of his fans, who collected, stored, and supplied<br>
bandwidth to distribute it. All at no cost (and no income) to
<br>
Joe. But it did keep the flame alive, and the sometimes
inferior<br>
technical quality and/or censored for airplay versions served to<br>
tease fans into buying real copies on CD.<br><br>
Lets be charitable and say that Joe is in a dry spell in his<br>
creative career, and is trying various means to cash in<br>
on his glory days, when he had an audience of millions.<br><br>
His live performances are great (so I've read here) but play<br>
to those who remember his radio work. This subscription<br>
plan is another way to extract a little more cash from his<br>
ageing fan base. I don't see either of these things as<br>
career advancing moves. Sadly, I fear his remarks upon<br>
receiving the lifetime achievement <br><br>
I have no idea if joefrank.com is being created by well paid<br>
professionals or another cadre of devoted fans, but I can't<br>
imagine that this subscription plan will generate enough income<br>
to justify a realistic account of the expenses involved.<br><br>
<br><br>
At 12:39 AM 10/30/2004, BILLMILOSZ@aol.com wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>In
a message dated 10/30/2004 1:32:50 AM Central Daylight Time,
bobl@1amsoftware.com writes:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">a way to show support for his
continued work. </font></blockquote><font face="Arial, Helvetica"><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><br>
I think this is a critical thing here. We, fans or devotees or
acolytes or just interested listeners, want more, new Joe Frank
programs. How can we get them? Well, JoeFrank.Com is trying
out the idea of SUBSCRIPTION. If there are enough paid
"members" of JoeFrank.com then there's enough money to
pay to do more material. One program a month is a good pace, I
think, I am satisfied with that. Like a magazine. And as
someone who did radio production for 13 years, I don't know how Joe Frank
kept the high quality standards and still produced a new show every week
back in "The Day" - that kind of pace would really burn anyone
out. (Actually I think the intensity of it also yielded some
interesting results- the effect of that punishing production regime on
Joe's work and perhaps on the man himself is interesting to see. But it
couldn't go on forever like that.)<br><br>
So, with subscription we have a model of a way to have new Joe Frank
material, and he has a way to sustain himself and the work. But can
it work? There's a break-even number of subscribers they have to
attain. And the costs of hosting streaming media are quite high, so
I would think they'd need A LOT of subscribers.<br><br>
So that means: in order to ensure the success of this, and make sure we
can follow the work of this fascinating artist along the journey he's on,
we would ALL be well advised to subscribe. If you can afford it, I
strongly urge everyone on this discussion list to subscribe to
JoeFrank.Com - you know, if you have to, drop your subscription to
American Chiropodist, or maybe stop sponsoring those children in
Guatemala, but find the $12.99 a month. I found I could water down
my father's insulin a little and come up with $12.99 a month. It's
really not that much money.</font><font face="arial"> <br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Joe Frank Mailing List<br>
joe-frank-list@armory.com<br>
<a href="http://www.armory.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/joe-frank-list" eudora="autourl">http://www.armory.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/joe-frank-list</a></font></blockquote></body>
</html>