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Thanks to everyone who voted in Round 1 of the Star 98.7 Rock Star radio contest! Because of you and your votes, we have moved up to Round 2 out of 175 bands that were eligible at entry. It’s down to only 25 bands now.

This is great news, but now we really need to kick it up a notch. The band with the most votes in Round 2 will compete with 4 other bands picked by the judges for the grand prize. The winner gets a record deal with Dave Matthews’ label ATO Records, $25,000, and a West Coast tour.

The voting process is exactly the same as it was before. The main catch is: you have to “confirm” your vote by opening your email and clicking on a link in a response email that the radio station sends you. Your vote doesn’ t count unless you click on the link in the response email!

Anyways, here’ s the link to the radio station contest:
http://www.star987.com/pages/rockstar2/vote2008.html

We are the 10th band from the top of the page.

Again, all your support is greatly appreciated. Please do what you can to get the word out to anyone you know who might be vaguely interested in helping out. And if you have more than one email address, or if your household has more than one email address, be sure to vote with all of them. Each valid email address gets counted as a vote. Thanks so much!

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO VOTE AGAIN:
After you confirm the response email, the web page with the poll to vote will no longer contain the poll “circles” to make another selection; even if someone else besides you voted on that computer! In order to vote again, you either have to use a different computer, use a different browser like Firefox, or clear your “cookie” files.I’ve tested the process of clearing your “cookie” files and I know it works. It’s a good house cleaning thing to do on your computer anyways, so if you want to know how to do it here are the instructions:

How to manually delete cookie files in Internet Explorer 7

1. Exit Internet Explorer 7, and then exit any instances of Windows Explorer.
2. Click Start, click Run, type inetcpl.cpl, and then press ENTER.
3. On the General tab, click Delete under Browsing History in the Internet Properties dialog box.
4. In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, click Delete Cookies.
5. In the Delete Cookies dialog box, click Yes.

How to manually delete cookie files in Internet Explorer 6

1. Exit Internet Explorer 6, and then exit any instances of Windows Explorer.
2. Click Start, click Run, type inetcpl.cpl, and then press ENTER.
3. On the General tab, click Delete Cookies in the Internet Properties dialog box, under Temporary Internet Files.
4. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the Delete all offline content check box, and then click OK.

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A quick update about my band:

The CD release party went well on Wednesday.  Thanks to everyone that came, we had a really good time.  The new CD is now available as mp3s and in CD format.  It’s called “Leaves Change in the Fall”.  If you’d like to listen to snippets of the music you can click on this link.  Here are also links to buy the music from iTunes for mp3s and CDbaby for a CD if you’re interested:

Leaves Change in the Fall		Deep Roots

The other CD is call “Deep Roots”.  It was our first CD and has a beautiful song called “Prayers that Follow” that was originally done as a short out-take, but that seems very appropriate these days.  You can listen to it on iTunes or from this link (it’s the last song on the page). 

I also wanted to thank everyone for voting for our video. The radio station hasn’t posted any updates or rankings so I don’t really know how it’s going, but I’ll keep checking and I’ll let everyone know if there are any updates on that. I’ll also probably make another big push for eveyone to vote again before the deadline! 😉

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On top of all the instruction I gave in the posting below (or the last email for those of you who get the email updates) after you confirm the response email, the web page with the poll to vote will no longer contain the poll circles to make a selection.  In order to vote again, you either have to use a different computer, use a different browser like Firefox, or clear your temporary internet files.  If you need help deleting your temporary internet files, click on this link to automagically search Google.

Thanks again, and just in case here’s the link to the voting page once more:
http://star987.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=216310&article=2403680

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Thanks to everyone who checked out our video.  It helped put us in the running for the official voting which starts today.  Now is when we really need your help.  Round 1 for voting starts today Dec. 3 and goes until Jan 2. 

It’s very simple to vote.  All you have to do is go to the radio station website, choose our song entitled “Seriously” (which is about halfway down the page), input your email address at the bottom of the page, and press the “Vote” submit button. There  is only 1 vote per email address.  However, if you have more than one email address you could vote once for each email address that you have.  Good thing I have several email addresses. 😉

Here’s the catch:  you have to “confirm” your vote by opening your email and clicking on a link in a response email that the radio station sends you.  Your vote doesn’t count unless you click on the link in the response email!

Anyways, here’s the link to the radio station contest:
http://star987.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=216310&article=2403680

All your support is greatly appreciated.  Don’t be shy about sharing this link with other people too!  If you have any questions, please let me know.   Thanks!

P.S.  The bands are listed in alphabetical order on the voting page.  The name of my band is Greenleaf Avenue (like the street in Whittier that we live on!).  Here’s a sample of what the listings on the voting page look like:

Gazz – Gazz 

Sell You Something – George Hartline 

Confused – Ghosts On The Radio 

Manipulation – Greenhouse Effect 

Seriously – Greenleaf Avenue 

Hannah Ford – Hannah Ford 

The Hazard Band – HAZARD

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Even though I cut my hair and we’re not doing as many live shows anymore, I’ve continued to be creative and have been busy putting together the second Greenleaf Avenue CD!  It should be available from iTunes and CDBaby.com in a couple of days.  In th meantime, we’ve entered a radio station contest that is kind of like American Idol for southern California unsigned bands.  We had to upload a video and we’ve been approved for the contest.  Eventually the winner will be decided based on votes by the public and votes by a panel of judges, but for now the bands that get their video viewed most often rise to the top and are posted on the radio station’s front page.  I am posting the video here for viewing.  Please do us a huge favor and click to play the video.  Even if you don’t watch the whole thing, just clicking to watch it helps.  The video is directly hosted on the radio station site and simply embedded here, so all clicks here count as a viewing.  Thanks a bunch, and I hope you like it!

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