Hey everyone,

  So I’m pretty sure from the header graphic that you know I’m a musician as well as an Internet Marketer.  Well this post is more about music than business.

  I recently got into a new band named Hollywood Assassyn.  It was pure luck how I even found these other guys but once I jammed with them, I really dug the music and it was an easy decision for me to want to stay.  That didn’t necessarily mean they would accept me.

  Well after only 2 jams,  they told me we were entered into a huge music competition called the Bodog Battle of the Bands and that our first show was only 3 more weeks away, talk about pressure hey!  You may have even heard of Bodog,  or seen it on tv it’s pretty big.  USA, Canada and Europe are all involved and they are in a search for 10 bands from across the countries to sign 1 of them to a $1,000,000 contract.

  So when I joined the band, they were already #7 out of 844 bands in Canada for the online voting portion of the voting.  That’s pretty dam good, but any computer savy musician could get a lot of votes for his band, so it’s more the live shows that I felt that really mattered. 

  I had a total of 4 practices with my new band before the first live competition in my home town of Edmonton, not very many.  And 24 bands out of 54 entered into online voting made it to the live shows.  We played a quick 20 minute 4 song set and got of the stage.  Then I partied like a rock star.  At the end of the night, they announced in NO-PARTICULAR-ORDER the top 12 who would be making it to the next round which is the finals of Edmonton.  I was pretty excited to hear ‘Hollywood Assassyn’ called out 2nd. 

  Then for the last 4 days I have been online pressing refresh because on the Bodog website, they list each city and their show details including the actual placing of each band after the show.  The show was judged on audience voting as well as the Bodog panel of judges.

  Well this morning I woke up and found out that my new band had placed first overall!  Holy man I’m so excited…so I thought I’d share it with you and also give you a couple of links if you wanted to check out our music and some pictures from the show and what not!  So here’s the links.

  The link to the Edmonton live show page showing us placing first!  Click here.  By the way, if you click on our band name, you’ll see a button to vote.  It would be great if you could vote for us to keep us high up in the standings.  You’ll have to register to vote, but I would really appreciate it!

  http://www.myspace.com/hollywoodassassynmusic is our MySpace page where you can view pics of me and the boys playing the battle and listen to the tunes.

  Ok that’s all for now.  The next show is Dec 3rd and the Top 3 make it to the Alberta, Canada finals and we truly hope to be there but are already blessed and honored to be #1 in Edmonton.

  Yeeeeeeee haaaaaaawwww!

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