I spent the weekend -- in what little free time I had -- starting the Steeler Country website. I had already done a lot of work on the portion of the site that teaches readers how to make their own Rooney, a football headed character created me and two friends when they were visiting from Upstate NY. I finished the Rooney page (except for the editing which needs to be done to remove any untoward references to things like drugs and sex). I'm not exactly a "drugs and sex" kind of guy, but it kind of helps using these references when you're pretending to be a megalomanical creator of Football Headed Good Luck Charm for a Professional Football franchise... I guess. Anyway, I've been advised by the Marketing Director of this fine venture that kids might be drawn to this portion of the site, and therefore, mentioning drugs and sex would be bad. I might have to modify the tone overall. You might have to check out the Rooney page for yourself to see what I mean...
A new mix is supposed to occur sometime today-ish, if Walter Ino gets a chance at it. It hurts to have a product 95% ready and have to sit on it for over a week just because of that last 5%. But it would be a bad idea to start sending it out places when it might not make the best impression that could be made with it. I am working every day on this idea and yet I still feel like I never get enough done. It's amazing that such a small thing could take so much time to do correctly -- and this with four people involved! I could use a team of five at least and they'd all stay busy. But, they'd eat up all the profits, too... Okay, I'll do it myself.
I'm thinking that the DVD people bailed on the idea of a "This Is Steeler Country" documentary. They mentioned they were hoping to pick up some funding the weekend I met with them in Ambridge. MY guess is that their situation was more desperate than I knew and their demise was imminent and they didn't last the weekend before they decided to screw the whole thing. I've written them numerous e-mails but have gotten no response. Smells like a blow-off to me! (This is absolutely fine, but an e-mail would have been nice...)
As I walked into the Steelers game last night (btw -- whew! that was a close one) I took notice of all the tailgaters and got a *little* overwhelmed with the thought of walking into the middle of them all and bursting out in song. It's not the crowd size that would bother me. I've played in front of lots of people so many times that nervousness is not the issue anymore. The problem is that they're so involved with what they're doing. It's a hard sell to take them away from what they're focused on: beer, Italian Sausages, tossing a football around and asking for their attention on a Steeler's song they've never heard of. Maybe that's not the best way to get the song heard. What I can see doing is printing up thousands of little business cards that have the "www.ThisIsSteelerCountry.com" site with the words "Free Song Download" underneath. That would require nothing from them and would be a good way to cheaply start getting the word out.
Another thing while at the stuadium -- Man, can I hear the song being played over the main speakers there into Heinz Field. I can TOTALLY envision people chanting the "Hey, Hey, Hey, This is Steeler Country" part at the end. The guy Nate knows that works at Heinz Field is the key. If he gets it played there.... dang. We're in. I'm going to buy that guy some sort of big bribe... I mean, thank-you gift for considering the song. If we get it to him this week, maybe we could get it played there for the next home game in two weeks? We play Cleveland, but I will be out of town for a wedding. Boy would that suck if I missed the first time the song was played at the stadium!!
Dreaming anyway....
GET THE SONG HERE:
www.SteelerCountrySong.com
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