January Update!!! (Patreon)

Hello to the 20 or so people who actually pay attention here on patreon! Just wanted to give y'all an update on what I am doing and where I am at.

Finally back in florida for the first time in months. I am exhausted and taking the next few weeks to recover both physically, but more so mentally. During this time, I have lots of projects i've left on the drawing board and backburner I want to get going, and I figured I will share some of these *possible* ideas with y'all (as a treat for supporting or simply paying attention here on patreon >:) lol)

First is a SHIFT OF CONTENT! I will never *not* do covers, however I have so much more stuff I want to beyond that, so expect a bit less frequency of covers, but a higher frequency of longer form content! Some of the ideas I have include, but are not limited to:

- Video Essays/Vlogs! - If you follow me, you know that I talk a lot! I have lots of things I want to talk more about. Some Ideas I've had are "The Logistics of touring" which would be a complete financial breakdown of the fishbone tour I just did, and bringing transparency to how EXPENSIVE tour can be. "How Captialism is destroying the music industry", a deep dive into how the profit motive has molded the music industry to make music really burn out musicians and make it hard for the majority. "In defense of spotify" a video explaining how spotify can be extremely beneficial for musicians, "A resurgence in a genre of music will never be digital" a video deep diving the importance of live music scenes and how supporting live music is necessary to support a genre. "how Drum corps and Punk rock touring differ (and how they're similar), breaking down drum corps and punk rock and talk about how similar they are and how different they are. These are all just ideas I have

-Rewriting ska songs i wrote in high school - me revisiting songs that i wrote in high school, and talking about all the things I liked about the songs, and things i should improve on. Also mentioning a little bit about my history into ska, music i was into at the time, how i was getting into songwriting and shows and stuff, histroy of my high school ska band, and basically everything that led up to these songs. I'll feature artists and these songs will hit streaming. I'll probably have bonus patreon content to go with these videos as well 

-Patreon bonuses for my covers! - With every cover, I want to make a short minute and a half video talking about why I chose the cover, as well as choices I made with the arranging and stuff. That'll likely be very patreon exclusive, maybe after a season, i'll clump them together into a long youtube video and upload some of the popular ones as reels/tiktoks a few weeks after the video uploads.

These are just a few ideas, with many many more on the backburner for me. I really think these are all really cool ideas and want to dive deep into them! Hope y'all enjoy the ride these will bring, and are as hype as I am on these!