Decisions, Decisions
Apr. 6th, 2022 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wyld_dandelyonSo, right now I'm told Bandcamp is the way to go, for self-publishing music. And I now am developing the skills to record myself, so I went to look at setting up an account, which I was told is totally simple.
And the first page, almost the first line, asked for my band name.
And I stopped and stared at that. I'd always figured I'd go with my name if I managed to do a solo album, but lately I've been following the rising career of a musician named Deirdre Murphy in Ireland. And you know, that would probably be OK, she's going for a much more mainstream music career than I'd be planning, but for some things, disambiguation is a good thing.
And it also occurs to me that I've been using the name Wyld Dandelyon for a very long time now, and that it wouldn't make a bad band name, especially for a filker (since filkers use the dandelion as our symbol). Never mind that I didn't create it to be a band name.
Well, I don't have to decide today.
People's thoughts, opinions, relevant experience, and ideas about what I should keep in mind as I decide, are all welcome at this point.
And the first page, almost the first line, asked for my band name.
And I stopped and stared at that. I'd always figured I'd go with my name if I managed to do a solo album, but lately I've been following the rising career of a musician named Deirdre Murphy in Ireland. And you know, that would probably be OK, she's going for a much more mainstream music career than I'd be planning, but for some things, disambiguation is a good thing.
And it also occurs to me that I've been using the name Wyld Dandelyon for a very long time now, and that it wouldn't make a bad band name, especially for a filker (since filkers use the dandelion as our symbol). Never mind that I didn't create it to be a band name.
Well, I don't have to decide today.
People's thoughts, opinions, relevant experience, and ideas about what I should keep in mind as I decide, are all welcome at this point.
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Date: 2022-04-06 04:08 pm (UTC)I agree with everyone else -- go for it!
That's where my mind went before I'd even finished the first paragraph.
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Date: 2022-04-07 03:41 am (UTC)I guess the next thing to ponder is whether I want to put the Pagan stuff out under the same band name as the filk and folk. I think the answer is yes; it's not as if I don't have songs that are very much both. But it's worth considering for a while, I suppose.