This week the ringtone is titled “Just Some Guy”:
Uhhhhh
Hmmm-mmm
Heh-hmmmm
hmmm hmmm
la la la
Hello
hmm mmm
hello?
This is a voice saying get your phone
Heh-hmmmm
hmmm hmmm
get your phone
- the instrumental tone this week is “Toy Piano”

As usual please make sure you right-click the RingtoneFeeder podcast in iTunes and select “Update Podcast” and then click the “GET ALL” button to make sure all the tones are downloaded automatically.

If you are a subscriber, don’t forget to vote for the weekly ringtone below or in the members vote section so we can get a feeling for what you like, otherwise have a go at the free demo feed to check out what we are offering.

If you are not subscribed yet, then just click here to get started. If you have any problems getting the ringtones on to your iPhone please have a read through the frequently asked questions or just contact us and we will do everything we can to help.

Don’t have an iPhone or just want this week’s ringtone? Check out OneTone or head over to iTunes where you can also now get RingtoneFeeder tones as albums.

It is once again Tuesday and we have just released the 96th batch of iPhone ringtones. If you are a subscriber they will all be available in your feed in iTunes by the time you read this as usual.

This week the ringtone is titled “This Is What You Get”:

this is what you get when they know your number
this is what you get when they know your name
la la lala lala lala la la
people’ll are gonna call you everyday

la lala la lala lala la la
la lala la lala lala la
la lala la lala lala la la
la lala la lala lala la

- the instrumental tone this week is “Digital Tone 15”

As usual please make sure you right-click the RingtoneFeeder podcast in iTunes and select “Update Podcast” and then click the “GET ALL” button to make sure all the tones are downloaded automatically.

If you are a subscriber, don’t forget to vote for the weekly ringtone below or in the members vote section so we can get a feeling for what you like, otherwise have a go at the free demo feed to check out what we are offering.

If you are not subscribed yet, then just click here to get started. If you have any problems getting the ringtones on to your iPhone please have a read through the frequently asked questions or just contact us and we will do everything we can to help.

Don’t have an iPhone or just want this week’s ringtone? Check out OneTone or head over to iTunes where you can also now get RingtoneFeeder tones as albums.

Oh and if you haven’t noticed, the site has had quite a make over. My amazing friend, Nicholas Young, did this and I cannot sing his praises highly enough. He is a rock star beyond belief when it comes to this stuff, and you would be amazed at all he has planned for how he thinks we should be using technology.

Please go check out what he is up to. He may just get you talking, thinking, and doing something new for you.

nicholaswyoung.com

John P took some amazing pictures of the night. Video is on the way, but in the mean time, check out some of John’s pictures on his Flickr page.

It was such a whirlwind night, and I have so many people to thank for making it a hit. Dave Peterson was so awesome helping get the party ready. It was a hoot sharing the kitchen with Dave, Cali, and Neal as we made yummy food, even though my jalepeno bacon snacks lit everyone’s tongues on fire.

My wife and daughter had so much fun being around my friends and are so thankful to finally be a part of one of these wonderful annual events.

I have found that the older I get, it becomes more rare to find those people who you truely connect with. Mind you my “day job” is piano bar at night and most of the people there are pretty wacky anyway.
But luckliy I have this “alter life” going on thanks to the web, tech, ringtones, new media, ustream, etc.
This has brought me to a world where there are people whom not only I admire but they admire me. Who knew?
For a few years now, I have had the honor to know, work with and become great friends with Cali and Neal from Geekbrief. (I hate using the word honor lightly and maybe that isn’t really the word, but there ya go)
Now it is no secret that Geekbrief.tv is one of the best shows on the web. You’d have to be living in a hole to not know how entertaining, fun, uplifting Cali Lewis and her husband Neal Campbell are.
Let me rewind and give a brief history:
Already hugely popular back in 2005, Cali gave me a call and asked if I’d help them on a video project. They had heard of me from my jingles I did for Adam Curry.
The project never aired, but I did make them a GO Daddy Commercial jingle.
We actually all met at the New Media Expo in 2006. (By the way I advise at some point everyone must meet their online associates in person sooner or later. After all, humans need contact)
Over the years, I have been involved in some of my best musical creations because of Cali and Neal. Numerous musical stingers for Geekbrief, Digg the Code, and the iYule.
Probably one of the most fun things though, is how my Ustream shows have exploded.
It started with Cali twittering that I was in my studio streaming, which then meant hundreds of people logged in to watch me and eventually an impromtu concert eruptped. To say it was magic is cliche, but I don’t care. It was magic. And everytime I do a Usream concert, Cali and Neal go out of their way to make it better than I could. They promote it and even come to Nashville sometimes and set up lights and cameras and get Ustream to make it look good.
This goes beyond being collegues. This is a true friendship, and I have come nowhere close to being able to thank them properly or even repay and do for them what the have done for me.

Cali recently posted the best explanation of this event on one of her sites.

She wrote this:

Geoff Smith

The first thing you need to know is who Geoff Smith is. A lot of you will know him and have enjoyed his music, and if you don’t know his name, you’ve probably heard his jingles. He’s an amazingly talented musician who made his mark on the new media world by creating jingles for different podcasters. Some examples are Drobo, iJustine, and TWiT. He’s also written and performed songs that make geeks dance, likeDigg the Code.

One evening in 2007, Geoff tweeted that he was in his studio working on a new album, and he had Ustream going. Neal and I joined the chatroom at Ustream and I tweeted that I was watching Geoff work. Pretty soon, we had a crowd of people watching and talking in the chatroom, and Geoff wasn’t getting ANY work done! Someone asked if he could sing one of his songs so he did, then someone else asked if he knew the words to a Beatles song, and he started singing it. And that’s how the Geoff Smith Late Night Concerts began. It was pretty incredible to watch Geoff play the piano, sing, take requests from the chatroom (he knows pretty much every song ever made) and in addition to that, watch the chatroom explode with excitement. People loved “singing” along in the form of chat. It’s hard to explain, but when the night ended, people said it was one of the best experiences they’d ever had.

It became a regular thing. Geoff would jump on Ustream, everyone would join him and tweet they were there. Amber Mac, iJustine, and Leo Laporte have all showed up and enjoyed it as well.

Annual Streaming Christmas Party

Last year, we went to Nashville where Geoff lives and plays at the Big Bang Bar, a dueling piano bar. We set up all our cameras and lights, brought our Tricaster along, called in extra bandwidth for the night, and went live. 80 people were there in person to watch Geoff do his thing and request songs. About 7,500 people joined us on the Ustream throughout the night, and thousands more watched the recorded version as we streamed the concert during the holiday season. It was a night we’ll never forget!

Christmas Party 2009

This year, Geoff is joining us to do it all again! Everyone’s invited to the live stream, and we encourage you to spread the word so it’s a more dynamic experience!

The party will be December 22nd at 9:00 PM EST, 8:00 PM CST, and 6:00 PM PST (that’s 2:00 AM GMT, December 23rd). Bring your smile, bring your song requests and hook up your computer to good speakers!

Join the video and chatroom at CaliLive.TV

Switching Granny

In addition to the live stream, we’ll have some local friends here at the house joining in. We would love to be able bring Switching Granny (the official grandmother of GeekBrief.TV) and her husband, Tommy, back into town for the Christmas Party. It’ll cost $1200 for the flight. Dave Peterson, who is flying in from Seattle, has offered to cover their hotel. If anyone in the Geek Brief family wants to help make a grandmother’s holiday,email me, @reply me on Twitter, or leave a comment below.

Once again, I am so happy to announce that my Christmas EP is featured on the very awesome, CD Baby Pop Discover Music newsletter for 2009.

Thanks again to the great people at CD Baby in their support for independent artists.

Also my Christmas Ringtones are available again, and this year I am combining my RingtoneFeeder Christmas tones with the iYule video that I did with Cali Lewis a few years ago. Check them out here and now also directly in iTunes as well.

People have come to really love the vast variety of 15 second songs that I have made and are loving the idea of subscribing and getting a really great deal on ringtones for not only the iPhone, but now so many other handsets.

And now I am excited that there are now several compilations available directly on iTunes, and Verizon.

I never thought I’d be making ringtones, and maybe simply calling them ringtones doesn’t do them justice. They are custom made songs, in so many genres such as 60s Pop, Modern Rock, Comedy, Jazz, Holiday, Funk, Electronic, pretty much any sound alike style I can come up with. In the same way that I approach my jingle, commercial, and even personal songwriting, I use all the musical ideas and tools I can think of to do something different every week.

Not only can one subscribe and get new tones everyweek, but you can have access to my back catalog of over 300, as well as pick an choose certain one-off collections such as the Top 25, Alarms, even in Spanish.

I am just really proud of these, and to be honest, I consider all these ringtones, just more original song releases. I also have so much fun making the weekly videos that go out along with the ringtones. They are like little music videos of ringtones.

In a world where musicians want to find new ways to make and distribute music, this is an area of adventure that I really have enjoyed and still do.

Last month I blogged about the history of the Impressions and the leadings up to this Christmas Album. You can re-read that here.

Here is the actual audio with myself, Fred Cash and Sam Gooden.

Listen Here:

Listen To The Impressions Interview

This album is out now (on sites like Amazon and iTunes)  and it will be a great addition to people’s Christmas music collection.

While I was an engineer at Studio East in Charlotte, NC, I had the great privilege to work on this album. I wrote the title track, “Coming Home” and did some playing on the record, as well as engineering some of the session.

The Impressions are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

“….The Impressions provided a critical link between Fifties rhythm & blues and Sixties soul. They pioneered and epitomized the sound of Chicago soul, a marriage of gospel and pop influences with a timely conscience. From the beginning, leader Curtis Mayfield was an innovative songwriter and producer whose work with the Impressions was typified by sophisticated yet celebratory grooves, elaborately detailed vocal arrangements, and lyrics that addressed and advanced the black freedom movement of the Sixties. On the strength of such indelible songs of striving and transcendence as “People Get Ready,” “Keep On Pushing,” and “We’re a Winner,” Mayfield has been credited with authoring “the soundtrack to the civil-rights movement.”   – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

This album is out now (on sites like Amazon and iTunes)  and it will be a great addition to people’s Christmas music collection.

This week I was interviewed by David Hooperon Music Business Radio where we talk about how I got my start in the jingle business and get some great advice for upcoming musicians looking to get their first cuts.

We talk about my business of producing and distributing original ringtones viaRingtoneFeeder.com. We also talk about my “Dynamic Album” invention and how artists can release music using that method.

And… I made some custom jingles for both Music Business Radio and the “Demo Derby” segment.

» Listen to the entire interview

Music Business Radio is a syndicated, weekly, one-hour specialty program spotlighting the inside workings of the music business.

The show is hosted by music marketing expert, consultant, and author, David Hooper, and features interviews with various industry professionals giving the listener their insight and expertise into the business. Our wide-ranging guest list include Grammy Award winning producers, artists, musicians, and songwriters…as well as, record executives, promoters and artist managers.