Dear Friends,
Please, if you will now let me entice and excite you with the
launching of “Eldorado”. What is it you ask? Well, if you stop your blood
doping for a sec I’ll tell you. It’s some kinda car, I think, and/or a lost city of
gold, but for our purposes it’s what we’re calling the new subscription
service, (by we I mostly mean me).
See I really like making songs for you, and with you, and also covering
your favorite songs, Clem Snide and otherwise. But I can’t launch a
Kickstarter campaign every month and I know many of you don’t have $200
to spend so ephemerally. If you subscribe to “Eldorado” and pay the meager
$8 US a month you will receive, as well as inspire, a new and exclusive 3-5
song EP emailed monthly right to your door.
I don’t just want to peddle some tepid live recordings, or t-shirts, or
whatever. I want to make something new and weird and fun. So to join
Eldorado is not just to be a passive consumer of music but an active
participant in its creation. There will be a special email address to which you
will send your thoughts, ideas, words, lyrics, pictures, unfinished tracks,
anything really, so long as it’s fits in an email.
I will then tenderly scour these emails, randomly choose a few, and get
crackin’. Also it’s safe to say that there wont be many members, at first, so
there’s a good shot your email will be honored, at some point (I would try
and hold out for at least a year to see where it can go). I will send along
update emails to you as well. Now I realize this is mostly unchartered
territory, so as we swing our machetes through the underbrush I welcome
any and all of your questions and suggestions; and if nothing else you can
always cancel.
Sincerely,
Eef
p.s You also get (for free) every new Eef/Snide release plus 2 tickets to a
show of your choosing. And big big thanks to Black2Red (formerly Go Hero!)
for making this actually possibly real.
EEEEEEEEF!!! I’ve been a fan of your music ever since I saw you open for Ben Folds back in 2001. I love your creativity in not only connecting with your fans but finding a new way to make a living as a musician in this age of free file sharing services. And all without sacrificing your art. Looking forward to the new service! Bravo, sir!
Can’t wait for May 1! Thrilled to sign up – need more CS in my life right now! Also looking forward to the new album…
Can’t wait for May 1st. I will be signing up for sure.
Dear E:
A longtime fan, a longtime Bkln resident, and a longtime human being. Count me in. And please, please, PLEASE … make certain there’s VALET PARKING at any web site you create for this project.
This is a fantastic idea. I couldn’t be more satisfied. Thanks, Eef Barzelay.
Awesome concept to support art. Glad to be a part of it.
holy monkeys – this sounds amazing. i tried clicking all over the page to sign up immediately until i realized that it hadn’t started yet. all hail the awesomeness of eef!
okay, so i just got overly excited after reading the letter and commented before i found the right page upon which to sign up for the service. feel free to remove both my comments. or leave them up. it’s not the first time i’ve looked like an overexcited yet stupid fanboy. but i’m about to sign up now so i’m still super excited. nothing but love for eef.