Looking back at the past few years, it's hard to imagine that I'm about to graduate from college. It's also hard to imagine that I've been doing solo gigs for 3 1/2 years. Though they're mostly unrelated, I would attribute most of my musical accomplishments to the opportunities I've had here at school. Without forcing myself to play coffeehouses in front of 1000 people, I probably wouldn't have ever shaken my stage fright. Additionally, in the past few years, social networking has really taken off, and the climate on college campuses has really encouraged that. However, with that alongside the ability to network easily on campus, it's been easy to go without an official website for the past few years. Being able to identify with both the starving college student and the starving musician mentalities, I haven't really found the "need" for a website.
This has all changed. With playing my first wedding a few weeks back, I felt that I should be stepping up my professionalism a bit. To play more events like that, a real website will work a lot better than, say, a facebook or myspace page. Not that I want to get into playing weddings all the time, but it's nice to have a variety of clients.
Last night, for my birthday, I tried to launch alexbrubakerguitar.com. I've been working on it for about a month and was ready to get it out there. Unfortunately, it takes a few days for the domain to register. So in a few days, it'll be here.
Wait for it...