I'm sick of this shit

[Dimocritus]

perhaps you should just take it upon yourself and let him have a hissy fit after the fact?

after all, guitar players are a dime a dozen, punk guitar players even more so. He can be easily replaced.

Hell, if you guys are actually going somewhere, I'll volunteer.

It's not that easy, unfortunately. He and I are the only original members and every song we have was written by the two of us. Basically, if he left, the songs go too.

Why? Don't you know them? And don't you have recordings of them? Copyright that shit before he does and it's legally yours to do with as you please. then you can tell him to smarten up or get fucked.

Seriously, guitar players are ridiculously easy to find. The only band member that should ever be given any leeway about primadonna shit like that is the drummer, because they're very difficult to find competent replacements for.

This may all be true, but we're also talking about over ten years of friendship that... Never mind. You're right.

[Cain]

Depending on exactly what functionality you want, there are several free formats you can use for a site (for instance, Wordpress, if you want something of a blog look, which could be useful for updates about gigs and for directing people to merchandise), most of which you can either host yourself or have them host for you (but hosting it yourself is generally a better option.  For example, you could then host sample tracks of your own music on the site).

I'm slightly familiar with word press. But we have www.theparaplegics.com  already. Can anyone maybe tell me something about that site, like maybe where to find tutorials or something.

As far as I can see, that's a completely home made site, so there wont be any tutorials for it.

[LMNO]

ECH,
eventually told the drummer to get fucked also, and bought an Alesis (and a toy drum set and inflatable sheep for live shows).

You never told me your IRL name is Steve Albini.

[East Coast Hustle]

I'm not quite old enough to have seen them live...did they really use a drum machine for live shows?

[Doktor Howl]

How many guitar players does it take to change a lightbulb?

One thousand.  One to hold it in the socket and make the world revolve around him, and 999 to say how they could have done it better.

How many drummers does it take?

None.  They just sit back in the dark.  Alone.

[LMNO]

I'm not quite old enough to have seen them live...did they really use a drum machine for live shows?

Yup.

Also, Dimo: Didn't you say you wanted to change your sound, anyway?

No time like the present to clean out the deadwood.

How many guitar players does it take to change a lightbulb?

One thousand.  One to hold it in the socket and make the world revolve around him, and 999 to say how they could have done it better.

How many drummers does it take?

None.  They just sit back in the dark.  Alone.

[Triple Zero]

Depending on exactly what functionality you want, there are several free formats you can use for a site (for instance, Wordpress, if you want something of a blog look, which could be useful for updates about gigs and for directing people to merchandise), most of which you can either host yourself or have them host for you (but hosting it yourself is generally a better option.  For example, you could then host sample tracks of your own music on the site).

I'm slightly familiar with word press. But we have www.theparaplegics.com  already. Can anyone maybe tell me something about that site, like maybe where to find tutorials or something.

As far as I can see, that's a completely home made site, so there wont be any tutorials for it.

This. It's probably not even got a content management system, but just a bunch of HTML files and images uploaded to the server.

If you want to put WordPress on it, you need to get the FTP password for the site. Then you should download FileZilla, an excellent FTP client for Windows, and download WordPress from wordpress.org. There are probably instructions on WordPress.org that tell you how to use FileZilla to upload WordPress (it''s really not that hard).

[Dimocritus]

Depending on exactly what functionality you want, there are several free formats you can use for a site (for instance, Wordpress, if you want something of a blog look, which could be useful for updates about gigs and for directing people to merchandise), most of which you can either host yourself or have them host for you (but hosting it yourself is generally a better option.  For example, you could then host sample tracks of your own music on the site).

I'm slightly familiar with word press. But we have www.theparaplegics.com  already. Can anyone maybe tell me something about that site, like maybe where to find tutorials or something.

As far as I can see, that's a completely home made site, so there wont be any tutorials for it.

This. It's probably not even got a content management system, but just a bunch of HTML files and images uploaded to the server.

If you want to put WordPress on it, you need to get the FTP password for the site. Then you should download FileZilla, an excellent FTP client for Windows, and download WordPress from wordpress.org. There are probably instructions on WordPress.org that tell you how to use FileZilla to upload WordPress (it''s really not that hard).

I am going to look into this, as I've said I am slightly in the know about how to run wordpress, and if he's not going to do it, then maybe I should seeing how I've recently changed my stance on "technology."

[Triple Zero]

there might also be better solutions specifically made for band websites, but I haven't tried any of them. You could upload and see if some of them are easy/useful though:

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=cms+for+band+websites

I would not advise using Drupal or Joomla or any other "big" CMS, though, as they are often a bit bloated. In that case better use WordPress which is a great CMS as well (if originally meant for blogging), and they probably have plugins for uploading media/mp3s as well. In fact, it might even come standard in it, if I remember one of those buttons in the post editiing screen allowed you to put an mp3 ina blog post. But I never tried that either.