Overman and Following your Dreams

[Overman27pj]

I like your attitude, of promising not to disappoint, and standing, proudly behind your music.
I can't stand people who are humble or sheepish about their bands.
If you don't think it's freaking awesome, why should I give a **** ?

However, I did not like the music. Way too mellow. It reminded me of the Grateful Dead, when they were all sober.

I liked your mission statement thing about wanting to provide the best entertainment you can muster.
But if that was the best you can muster, we must have profoundly different ideas about entertainment.
I just saw some plain-looking dudes pretty competently playing a little song, that sounded very happy, yet ball-less.
No motion, showmanship, nothing taking me off guard.
It was really predictable, mellow and sterile, and harmless.

I am sure you will be able to find lots of people who are into that stuff though, with time.

Thanks for the input everyone!!!

Yeah, we will never be a 'hardcore' or screamer band, but even still, I think you just listened to 'Mellow Man' which is supposed to be pretty mellow. Each of our songs has a different sound, I'd suggest trying to listen to another.

On the side note the PRS is freaking awesome.

 

[jaguarr]

Here's a critique of your website: No band bio. Who are you? What role do each of you play in the band? How did you get together? Maybe I missed all of that on your site, but if it's there I didn't see it. Pretty standard fare for any band's web presence and marketing material.

jag

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Hey all,

As I hope many of you know, I am in a band Overman. As many don't know, I quit my nice paying comfy job about a month ago to begin doing the band thing full time. Following my dreams, even right into the ground, I have never wanted to do anything else with my life, but have always been conflicted about going 'all out'. I finally broke down that barrier about a month ago, and the feeling is freedom.

I now am able to measure myself each day on how closer I am to achieving my dreams, and it is a wonderful, and many times scary feeling.

Either way, today is a big day for me and I would like to share it with you!

Today we launched our new website at www.overman.info . I built it from the ground up by myself, and would love your critique. One of our major faults has always been product. We always felt we were on to something great, but rarely ever delivered. That has changed. We now have product that we can stand behind and promote without any reservations, and it feels great!

So here I go: Please visit our new website that we launched today. Check out our new music, and check out all of the other media we have up there. We have quite an extensive and detailed business plan, and the dominos are starting to fall. We have a forum up and running (it is still a very young forum) and I would really appreciate it if anyone jumped over there and posted some.

AND if anyone is willing to go above and beyond I'll ask that you be a Champion for Overman, and post a bulletin about us, or start a thread in some other forum. However much you are willing to do is however much I am asking for.

It is going to be a long hard uphill road ahead, but if I keep climbing and working hard that hill will finally crest and when this ball starts rolling downhill....man I can only dream!

I want to thank everyone who has been supportive of me here on the forums and in other places. It is doubtful I could have gotten here without each critique or encouraging comment.

The Future is going to be Great.

Thanks,

Matt of Overman

Before you start promoting a website make sure it works. All four songs linked on the home page are the same one and probably not the best one to promote. The website also doesn't look too professional, you might want to hire a designer to make it look a little better, more professional, not all the bright colors and high school yearbook photos, looks like someone's first attempt at creating a website. Sorry, if it's a little harsh, but since you're doing this full time, you probably don't want people holding back their opinions.

 

[Overman27pj]

Before you start promoting a website make sure it works. All four songs linked on the home page are the same one and probably not the best one to promote. The website also doesn't look too professional, you might want to hire a designer to make it look a little better, more professional, not all the bright colors and high school yearbook photos, looks like someone's first attempt at creating a website. Sorry, if it's a little harsh, but since you're doing this full time, you probably don't want people holding back their opinions.

Definitely don't hold any back! Yeah it's my first time at web design, we are doing everything in house.

The Band Bio is in our 'OverWiki', and to change the songs you gotta use the keys up top, instead of clicking on a song, I am using a generic flash player and can't figure out how to fix that glitch, if anyone does please let me know!