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Oh yeah Whiskeytown were probably the best thing he was involved with. I never got the impression they were popular but again I'm young, dumb, and don't understand the market for signature guitar pedals.

Most people that I know who are into ryan adams are really into gear in a bit of a more mainstream sense than ILF. Like they're all guitar players trying to decide if their n+1 guitar should be another strat, tele, or jazzmaster to pair with their fender combo. To be clear, I mean no offense by any of that. I love jamming with all of them. I'm just always saving up for crazy stuff they've never heard of and they're saving up for nice stuff that I'm not concerned with.

Jwar wrote:Thanks for the answers! Was hoping for builders to chime in!

I guess super popular would be someone like Ryan Adams. He's the most popular dude I've seen used by non enormous companies (then again, maybe those companies are bigger than I think). So, I guess I'm always interest in what metrics drive builders to do one signature over another.

If Ryan Adams is what we consider big (selling out 2,000+ cap rooms easily, tour bus life, etc.), then I can't comment as we've worked with bands operating at a different "fame" level. A rad dad in his 50s/60s will hear a Ryan Adams song or read about him in Rolling Stone before he knows about Daughters, Bongripper, Defeater, Dreamtigers, or Superheaven.

Fuzzrociouspedals wrote:

Jwar wrote:Thanks for the answers! Was hoping for builders to chime in!

I guess super popular would be someone like Ryan Adams. He's the most popular dude I've seen used by non enormous companies (then again, maybe those companies are bigger than I think). So, I guess I'm always interest in what metrics drive builders to do one signature over another.

If Ryan Adams is what we consider big (selling out 2,000+ cap rooms easily, tour bus life, etc.), then I can't comment as we've worked with bands operating at a different "fame" level. A rad dad in his 50s/60s will hear a Ryan Adams song or read about him in Rolling Stone before he knows about Daughters, Bongripper, Defeater, Dreamtigers, or Superheaven.

I mean, a lame ass dad would. hahaha

My kids know of all the shit I listen to. Which is stuff like that and more. No Ryan Adams here!


I actually thought he was bigger than he was to be honest. Maybe that was a perception think I didn't quite grab.

Fuzzrociouspedals wrote:
Daughters

Fun fact: Nick Sadler has told me on numerous occasions that my Instagram page is his favorite page. Is there any chance of me getting an endorsement deal? I have zero commercial appeal and can barely play guitar. Not sure if that matters.

Regarding Ryan Adams’ fame level: He’s basically mainstream and/or entry-level “Americana” for a lot of fans of the subgenres therein.

Yeah, sounds like he's just not my scene. I'm aware of most of the bands Fuzzrocious mentioned, though.

When he and Mandy Moore got divorced I remember seeing that his yearly income was over a million or 1.5, that's pretty big for a singer-songwriter in this age.

He very successfully staked out a lucrative niche - more normcore than even Wilco but more rock than someone like Ray LaMontagne.

Ugly Nora wrote:

Fuzzrociouspedals wrote:
Daughters

Fun fact: Nick Sadler has told me on numerous occasions that my Instagram page is his favorite page. Is there any chance of me getting an endorsement deal? I have zero commercial appeal and can barely play guitar. Not sure if that matters.

You stated there why your approach is far superior.

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Ugly Nora wrote:I dunno about any of that, but I am going to become an influencer. So an endorsement or signature something would be a good place to start I think.

I was offered a "signature" artist instrument "deal" recently. It was some rando builder on Instagram who has like 35k followers. Seemed legit until I thought logically about it. Why do I need to pay for an endorsement (like what), why does it cost me (!600 bucks but I can do upgrades up to 5500...who would actually do that if the value was that high?) and why did they DM me when I can clearly see it's an open invitation on their page to everyone? LOL!

Still. Sig JWAR guitar. AMIRITE?

Nah fuck that shit. hahahaha

About 30 some years ago when I was young I wrote a lot of poetry. I saw an ad in the back of Rolling Stone asking for poetry submissions to be published in a book. I submitted a poem and they wrote me back saying it was accepted and they asked for like $35 to purchase the book.

It sounds like that Instagram cat is pulling a similar scam.

Yea it does! I've had similar stuff on writing as well. Bunch of dicks. I miss writing. Sigh.

Jwar wrote:Yea it does! I've had similar stuff on writing as well. Bunch of dicks. I miss writing. Sigh.

I know it's not easy, but you should write! I found in insanely inspiring how Mr. Doomdad Rigs (now Cathartic Conferences) wrote a horror novel and published it, and I found the book totally enjoyable. Wish I could find the link for it and my copy is gone. I never manage to make my hobby goals happen, but it's really awesome when other people do and it is worth taking steps towards, imo.