Heavy Metal MBA

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"Dollar signs in my head. Double-bass drums in my heart" or "A Tumblr on its way to a book or otherwise more serious effort." I'm a thirty-something executive in the midwest. I'm living proof that 1) metal is not (and *should* not) be something you "just grow out of," and 2) loving metal and having a successful professional career are not mutually exclusive. This Tumblr is an attempt to bridge the two worlds.

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Delivered online engagement counsel to ProsTech, which is a prostate factor engineering specialty firm that ensures that bicycle seats do not damage cyclists’ prostates. For a B2B video to be promoted to the likes of Schwinn, et al, the creative team is looking for five young male interns to volunteer to sit on ProsTech and non-ProsTech seats for two hours while riding on stationary bikes. Their prostates will be examined afterward. You guys still haven’t caught my fake updates yet.

#fakestatusupdates whitecollartrolling

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Vetements, Kanye West, and Justin Bieber and bringing Metallica mainstream.

I don't know how I feel about this yet...

#metal fashion

“Bummer alert: metal doesn’t pay the bills. Most metal musicians I know take jobs when they’re not on the road. Even guys in bands you’d say are “popular” compared to your average underground death metal band still need to work crappy jobs to pay their bills just like the rest of us.” (via Testament and Exodus Frontmen Talk About Their Crappy Day Jobs - MetalSucks)

(via Pack Up Your Pentagrams and Sit This One Out: Metal And SXSW Are Officially Over Each Other | NOISEY)

"By their own admission, the two stagings of the Orion festival were disastrous financially, and the shambles that was the 'Through the Never' movie cost $32 million and will only recoup a fraction of that amount.

According to Biographers, Metallica Are in the Red, Losing Money Due to 'Disastrous Decisions' | Music News @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com

#metallica metal business money music

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Podcast interview with Dave Lombardo about the music business. Clearly, don't expect a rosy view.

#drumming slayer metal business interviews podcasts

From the article:

Christopher Murray of the metal band Illuminate Me has taken matters into his own hands by launching a petition at Change.org. The petition alleges that it’s unfair of Facebook to keep raising advertising rates on bands who should be able to reach all of their fans without having to pay for it.

I wonder if they've heard of email...

#metal #music #facebook #marketing

Myglobalmind: Looking back at your life what are you most proud of? Klaus: I think that I am not proud of anything, really, you know. It's more that I feel really thankful that for all these years. It is a privilege that we still, as a German band, can play a global stage. The philosophy of friendship in this band really paid off, because friendship and teamwork was always a very important part of the Scorpions. It feels really good that after all these years that we are still out there, and that we still have a chance to even come back to the U.K. very soon.

Scorpions Singer Klaus Meine: 'The Band Was Built On Friendship And On Teamwork' - Blabbermouth.net

#scorpions #music #friendship

"What's important to me is to stay creative," he said. "You have to always stay creative, you always have to keep creating music that makes people think, that entertains, and that makes people happy. And makes me happy. It has to make me happy first before I send it out to the world."

Dave Lombardo: 'What's Important To Me Is To Stay Creative' - Blabbermouth.net

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So I'm by myself. I don't have management, I don't have a lawyer, I don't have anything. Anyway… But they promise me, 'You'll get what's coming.' And I keep asking because I'm getting really close to finishing all my stuff on the record, and finally, once I lay down the final track of my guitar playing, they said, 'Ah! We have the contract for you.' And in it, it says, specifically, 'Ozzy Osbourne wrote all the songs. You had nothing to do with any of the writing, you have no claim to publishing, and you cannot say so publicly.' And I looked at it. I'm looking at Sharon [Ozzy's wife/manager], and I said, 'This is not what you told me before.' And she says, 'No, it isn't.' [And I said], 'Why do you think I'm gonna sign it?' And she says, 'Because if you don't, we'll give you a plane ticket, you go back home and you stand in line and you sue us. In the meantime, we have all your tracks, we'll get another guitar player, he'll redo your tracks, and you'll have nothing.'"

Jake E. Lee: Why I Gave Up Songwriting Credit For Ozzy Osbourne's 'Bark At The Moon' - Blabbermouth.net In other words, Sharon Osbourne is a total harpy.

The Judas Priest frontman famously fought off a 1990 'subliminal messages' trial in which their music was blamed for the suicide death of Raymond Bellknap and the self-inflicted gunshot wounds suffered by James Vance.

(via Halford: Metal is a force for good - Classic Rock)

#judas priest #rock #metal #music

Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickenson joins Glenn Hughes and Ian Paice for Deep Purple's "Burn."

#iron maiden #deep purple #metal #music videos #glenn hughes #ian paice rock

#pantera #metal #heavy metal #business

"Did Indonesia just elect history’s first metalhead President?! Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, who has publicly declared his love for bands such as Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Lamb of God and even Napalm Death, received 53.13 percent of the vote in Indonesia’s 2014 Presidential election."

#metal #indonesia

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According to The Atlantic’s City Lab and the Martin Prosperity Institute, the number of heavy metal bands in a given area is positively associated with, “economic output per capita; level of creativity and entrepreneurship; share of adults that hold college degrees; as well as overall levels of human development, well-being, and satisfaction with life.”

Countries where heavy metal is popular are more wealthy and content with life, according to study | Consequence of Sound

From my day-job... "As a fan of heavy metal for nearly my entire life, I’ve always looked up to Dio for his dedication to this enduring genre, his frank demeanor and the passion he had for the global community (a “tribe,” really) of metal fans. For companies and brands, Dio offers lessons for staying relevant, becoming indispensable to your stakeholders and, in the end, having them miss you terribly if you were to leave."

#ronnie james dio #rip #music #metal

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