Finally checked an item off my "bucket list" thanks to HP
Mind if I toot my own horn for a minute?
I'm in a good mood today because HubPages has helped me knock an item off of my wanna-be rock journalist/heavy metal geek bucket list....
Those of you who read my Hubs (all two of you) obviously know that I'm a big hard rock and metal fan. Over the past year I have written numerous reviews of albums released on Stormspell Records, a small indie label devoted to '80s/retro metal. Thanks to those articles I have become friends with the owner of said label on Facebook.
About a month ago, he contacted me saying he was in a pinch -- he was prepping the layout for a new CD release that was due to go to the printer in a few days, and the band had sent him a brief bio/history (to go inside the CD booklet) that was poorly written and needed tweaking to make it usable. He asked me if I could do a quick rewrite/edit on it and said he'd send me a free copy of the CD as a thank you when it was released. I said "sure, no problem," he sent me the file, and I banged out a readable version of it over my Sunday morning coffee.
Yesterday I got my copy of that disc in the mail ("20 Years of Terror" by the '80s thrash/death metal band Terror) and lo and behold, in the booklet I am credited and thanked for my "Editorial Assistance." Yes, my name is in the "thanks" list of an actual CD!
This may not sound like a big deal to some of ya, but as a guy who spent way too much time during my teen years obsessively studying the lyric sheets/credits/thanks lists in the liner notes of every album I bought, this was a VERY COOL THING for an old headbanger to finally achieve... and I owe it all to HP!
(happy dance)One can only hope!
I am waiting patiently by the phone for Metallica to call me, maybe they'll want me to write the liner notes to their next career spanning box set. Haha.
Extremely cool! Having your name on a CD is more than most people in the world can say, I think!
Awesome
that's really cool congrats- calculus-geometryposted 7 years ago
0 Nah, Stormspell is a very small indie operation (it's one guy, running the label in his spare time, out of his house!) and the rewrite/edit work took me all of an hour.
In addition to putting my name in the booklet of the disc, he also sent freebies of a few of his other recent CDs in the thank-you package, so I feel it was a fair trade. I'm an obsessed collector so I'll gladly work for free CDs.
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