Our new venture called Concertpromos.com will be on-line soon. It will be a search engine driven web site designed to display streaming video and audio of the hottest Concert and Album Promos. It will also contain special content, including exclusive concert footage, album previews, music videos, interviews with the artists, links to purchase tickets, artist websites, and new album information.
FREE, ON DEMAND, and SEARCHABLE!
The site will also feature user pages where fans and artists can share their favorite concert experiences with photos, video, and audio. Watch for the announcement of our US based launch this winter.
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July 2006 –
Bob Oakman productions
has now been in Nashville for over two years. The studio is very busy with mixing
and mastering jobs for various artists. We have been dabbling in video editing a bit
too. The Voice-Over business seems to increase weekly. The need to hire help seems
to be quickly approaching. It's just a matter of the income justifying the expenditure.
The bus has been collecting
cobwebs for about a year now. We have just been too busy to work on it. We have set
a goal to have it finished by this time next year, but scheduling will determine
weather that is a reachable goal.
The Bobs Bus music CD is
in the final stages. It features guitar driven vocal and instrumental tracks, including
original music and a couple beefed up covers. Thanks to Ryan Rolando and Derrick Kinney
for vocal contributions, and Bumblefoot for lead guitar on one song. It will be released
soon on Adam Fox's Defiant Records, as soon as we can get all our legal ducks in a row.
There is also an electronic CD in the works, and a collaboration effort with Paul Warren
and several virtuoso guitarists being tracked right now. More news here soon.
June 2004 –
We have moved again!
We purchased a beautiful home in Nashville and on May 31st, one year after we
moved to the frigid north, we loaded up the bus and floated back south of the
mason Dixon line. I sure missed the Waffle House. It’s great to be back
in the south! The house is much larger than we need and there is ample land for
expansion. We plan to stay in Music City for a long time.
Nashville is home to several
clients and some good friends, but we sure miss our friends in Houston. Besides
spending more time on business, I will be more seriously pursuing music and
after a short break, will continue working on the bus. I guess the music part
will have to wait until my smashed finger heals. Maggie says she is going to
forbid me from using power tools. May 2003
– After 10 years
several different homes and 7 years at Bill Young Productions in Houston, we
are making a break for it. One Mayflower moving truck and a 40 foot Silver Eagle
bus full of our crap, sorrowful goodbyes to good friends and one crazy party
later, we are about to embark on a journey that will take us diagonally across
the US in an overloaded bus, with 4 dogs, a cat. Our son Gage and Maggie and
I. I am giving us 2 days to make the drive and set up shop in Virginia Minnesota,
where we have leased a cool old house that was built in 1925. The studio will
be temporarily set up in a spare bedroom while I prepare a room off the garage
for the full-blown rig. One of the first orders of business is running cat-5
cable throughout for the computer network and getting high-speed internet and
phones working. Once settled, we will continue
work on the bus. She’ll be parked in my Father In-Law’s garage,
which is large enough to accommodate the leviathan and one reason we are moving
there. The other reason is to spend time with family and my Mom, who has not
been well. When our second car broke
down, the bus became my work vehicle. I drove it to BYP every day. She is a
joy to drive.
November 2002 –
With help from Ed Beckley, Bob Oakman Productions has purchased a 1978 Silver
Eagle tour bus. The plan is to convert it into a luxury motor home and Mobil
studio. On Thursday, November 7th, my wife and I flew out of Houston and met
up with good friend, Gabe Nickelson in Portland, where we closed the purchase
of the bus with Bart Grabhorn. www.grabhorn.com. We were under time constraints
and departed immediately. Already tired, we strike out on our trek across the
country to bring her home to Houston. With flight time, some head-gasket trouble
in Idaho and some back road driving through Nevada (permit not good in California),
I stayed awake for 48 hours, finally passing out in a small Motel on the border
of California, Nevada and Arizona. We arrived in Houston the following day and
began deconstruction the following week. Click on the Photos link to see pictures
of our progress.