I'm making a triple CD of Recital #22, infact I'm going to do one for each recital I participate in. (Would go lovely in anyone's music room) Just wondered what you guys think, and can I take any orders? lol

Wayne, your prototype looks very cool!

I'd order one if I didn't have a way to make my own, but I do, and I have. (Of course, mine don't have the great graphics, etc. like yours). There may be others who will be very interested, though. Really nice job on the packaging!

Thanks, It has just took me a couple of hours to make the cover. It was the listings on the back that took ages. Ordered some proper cd covers etc so the finished product should look good.

Looks very nice Wayne. Just make sure to pay me royalties on every CD sold as I need the money. The 10 year T-bill is only at 2.98%!

oh god, I'd be quids down! 1% is pushing it!

And the price has rocketed to £19.99 lol

Beautiful work, Wayne. The cover looks really smart.

Thanks, I'll put you down for 2

*gulp*
This is just so... I can't think of the word... official-looking? If I had known, I would have been twice as nervous while recording my piece!

Thnx MaryBee, it will look so much better when it's done properly, will keep you posted

Looks great! You're very talented!

Thnx Lain!

Hey Wayne - most excellent job on the triple CD package design

One minor correction though - for piece no. 10 on CD1 you have credited the wrong person for the performance - it's not RapperJohn playing "Girl from Barcelona" - it should be TrapperJohn - I'm sure this minor flaw was inadvertent since the letter R is right next to the letter T on the keyboard, and you just missed - TrapperJohn is the "stage name" I use for submissions to Recitals here at Piano World - I do use the name RapperJohn however for submissions of my filth laden, violence inducing, hate filled rants to Recitals at Rapper World, but the names, like the music (if you want to call a vile rant set to a deafening beat "music"), are not interchangeable.

Conspicuous by it's absence on the label of your CDs is a submission to the Recital by yours truly - what's up with that?

But, good luck with the CD project - when is the release date?

Trap

P.S. You do know that CD sales have been way down lately, right?

This looks wonderful Wayne. Keep me posted.

Wow, that does look professional. This must have taken an awfull lot of work.
The last box collection I bought was a DVD collection of "Resident evil" The zombie films with the wonderfull Milla Jovovich, whom I like to think about a lot,especially after eating lots of cheese before bedtime, in an effort to stimulate dreamtime.

I noticed Wayne you put your rendition of Lady ga gas Pokeherface in at number 28 on CD no.2
This is very humble and unassuming of you, not wanting to take pride of place at no.1 nor taking "Top of the bill" as the last track would.

Will there be any "promo" copies available, or any done on a "white label" for VIP's?
(Verbally Interesting Pianists)

Will any of the proceeds go to charity?
I only ask, because I support a couple of charities.
(1) The Rostosky foundation, dedicated to promoting the Human right of a performer to smoke on stage whilst performing.

(2) The Politically Incorrect society of Yorkshire.
This is a complex society that deals with many Topicall issues, we have just published a booklet entitled "Beating recycling, how to not bother messing around with loads of different bins and different coloured bags, whilst trying to cook"

An absolute must read for anyone not wanting to waste time in the kitchen, or contract ecoli through touching a waste bin whilst preparing food. With the added bonus that all time saved can be better utilised say for practice on the piano, or eating biscuits.


Will there be "T" shirts? I hope so, I take a medium, and would like mine in Black, like Johnny cash, I only wear black. Mrs. Rossy only wears black as well, but would need a larger size due to her girlie protruberances.

Regards,
Rossy.

Rostosky, the Cd's are of the May 15th ABF Recital #22, and are in the order as they were in the recital. If I had done them randomly, I would of course have put myself at number 1, and possibily also at #58.

I don't know if you noticed, Mr Super Hunky is demanding 2.98% of any proceeds. If all 57 participants demand the same, I'm in huge debt! Not the greatest business venture is it. So much for the medium my mum went to see the other day, she told her "your son is happy in his work, but it will not suit him forever, and he will be starting his own business" Not a cd production company then!

My mum went to see her with my grandad by the way, as he wanted to contact my nanan as he had some questions. The lady answered all his questions before he had even asked them, my mum said she was brilliant, hence had a session herself. My sisters partner is off to see her monday!

Oh also, my mum noticed that the mediums fingers were going like a pianist lol, but she never said anything about the piano!

TrapperJohn - sorry about the error, I must have missed a key, like you suggested!

I was walking back from the local garage in the village yesterday, and When I passed the post office there was one of those signs outside that advertise newspaper headlines. This is what it said on the front page of the carmarthen journal: Valley Psychic helps Police down under.

So, I went into the post office to buy the paper, but they had sold out, there will be some copies left at the garage, nut I didnt want to walk back down again yesterday.
I told mrs Rossy, and she too wants to read the full story, it appears a local women has been helping the police in Australia, but I have no Idea what it is about, really frustrating.
I will find out and get back to you though.

Ok, cover is edited, you can "right click" and "save picture as" if you want it, don't think Im gonna sell any cd's lol and may as well not let my time go to waste!

Wayne, that's really cool. I have some cd covers people made for past recitals, too. How fun.

Cathy

Wayne, that's a right nice looking cover you designed. Striking in its simplicity. Perhaps you have a future in graphic design.

thnx Cathy & Tx-Dennis

The cd paper covers came today

This is so cool! Would it be possible for you to mail me those templates so I can have them printed as well? I just want one copy for myself. The email is teodortenchevATgmail.com obviously the AT is a @

Wayne, that looks really great and it's my first tune that ends up on a cd

However I'm not agreeing that you sell my work for PROFIT.

I can give you permission to redistribute provided that it is WITHOUT PROFIT.

wouter, selling for profit went out of the window when Mr. Super Hunky demanded 2.98% share of any profit, although I'm sure he was having a joke.

I'll be nice and upload the CD covers as requested by Teodor, so everyone can just make their own copy

Just remember to charge mr.S.H VAT Wayne (they dont have that in the states, but as we do here..) If you apply it at the rate of 17.5% you will still be in profit. You also need to charge "Royaltys" (stolen from my thread) for your own work, not only your performance on recital,but on the artwork you did.

Dont accept EUros, they will soon be worthless when Greece again fails to pay back its debts.
Stick to Cash sterling, or gold.

Will there be tapes available for the Siberian market? My great aunt Lucilla Rostosky wants a set, but only has a cassette tape player.

The CDs say "May", but the cover shown above says "April"? I think it's the former. Nice job though!

Oh no.......... lol, well spotted, easily rectified though, glad it wasn't the other way around, (april on the cd's)consider it changed, on the very first post anyway, will change the other tomorow

Rostosky, you will have to use the money you saved "not" buying the delux cd box collection, and buy your great aunt Lucilla Rostosky, a personal cd player, as tapes are not available.

Ah,Wayne, I would but there is a problem.
All her household ( I call it a house,but technically its a shed) Items run off 350volts DC, I know this may seem a little scary to us in the UK but they are harder in Russia,what with the cold and the Vodka.

The upshot of this is that everything has to be "specially adapted" by granpapa Dimitri Rostosky.
So far he has done a grand job of adapting the cattle milking machine, the goat milking machine,the pig milking machine, and of course the Lucilla Rostosky emergency hardship winter milking machine, but his Finess in the more complex small scale electronic items is lacking due to his increasingly frequent tendency to vacate his bowels after just the smallest electrocution, which is , more often these days owing to poor eyesight, after the chernobyl fiasco, which he didn't cause all by himself at all.

Granpapa Dimitri Rostosky is also a social outcast solely because he glows in the dark, keeping folk awake at night.
I say folk but I really mean familly, well , only the 14 he shares a bed with and a piglet.

They say, in a letter: "please ask Wayne if he can make an exception to the no tapes rule, and if he ever comes to Russia, we will give him safe passage accross the dodgey parts, and also only sell him the good Wodka, and not the stuff that we usually sell to tourists that sometimes makes them (and granpapa) blind. He will also be offered first class turnip stew, and wont have to que up for it like other family members have to"

I said I would ask.

As this is exeptional circumstances, with your permission, I wish to use the profit I made from the, super delux piano world abf recital #22 cd box collection, set, to personally visit your great aunt Lucilla Rostosky, and present her with the "tape" edition. I look forward to the Turnip Stew!

Brilliant, If you can get there before the 22nd August, you will make it for the siberian bog snorkeling finals.
This is similar to the bog snorkeling they have here in Wales each year at Tregaron bog, but more hardcore,and with more wodka.

If you haven't been practising your bog snorkelling Wayne, you could come over to Wales to hone up on your skills and stamina levells before jaunting off to Auntie Lucilla Rostoskys in Siberia.

Granpapa will still have his hands in bandages after the recent electrocutions burns, but will still be competeing in the bog snorkelling finals.
He will put aside a few bottles of the "good stuff" (less than and not more than five years old as he calls it)
Heres a link to some excellent Welsh bog snorkelling, I know you understand there is not much else to do here in the valleys.

I love snorkling, Mrs Rossy at the beginning of the vid is very good by the way, mind u, bet she does it all the time, looking for archaeological evidence.



Was that an invitation? I'll consult the piano, and see when the next train's due!

Mrs. Rossy now has steam coming out of her nose, and is emanating her "youv'e had it now" expression.
(chocolates and meat, especially lamb is the only thing that will calm her down)

Rectified!

I hope you got the items required to restore peace in the Rostosky household, no one wants to see an unhappy Mr Rostosky, again, dishing out sound advice willy nilly