If you have loved Band or Album and your status as the earliest of its adopters, the time has come to secure your copy of the next big Band or Album thing, and give a hand up to your friends and family who missed the original campaign.
(2) Spread the Word. (This URL helps us keep track of which backers are coming from where: <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jefftidball/band-or-album-remix?ref=7hw7si>. If that one seems too unwieldy and ugly, feel free to just spread <bandoralbum.com>, which also points to the campaign.)
(3) Discuss the Question.
What Question, Now?
As the title of this backer report suggests, answers the "band or album?" question as to the phrase "The Remix Launches" is a toughie. It does not seem so at first, but once you realize that "launches" is also a plural noun (think: boats), the Strong Law Where Plural Nouns are Usually Bands complicates the issue of assignment.
Discuss the question in the comments. Or discuss it in your homes, at your places or work, and on Twitter. (Using the hashtag #bandoralbum, of course.) We're not the boss of you. Band or Album is a boss-free zone, baby!
“The Remix is At Hand” = Album
almost 3 years ago
– Wed, May 19, 2021 at 07:46:37 PM
We’ve been through a lot this past year. Even still, it’s never the wrong time to rock.
Band or Album backers, because of your heroic efforts back in the day I want you to be the first to know: The Kickstarter launch of Band or Album Remix is imminent.
The Remix campaign features:
A brand new coin design by visual designer Cisco Garrido
A new rulebook for a new age, written by co-designer Jeff Tidball, featuring a new voice and two new rules expansions (spoiler: charge up your power tools)
A reprint of the long-unavailable original edition
If you were a Band or Album Executive backer, I’d like to name you as an Executive Emeritus on the Band or Album Remix campaign page, along with your OG executive title. But I don’t want to do that without your permission! Since Kickstarter wisely conceals the email addresses of backers of long-fulfilled campaigns, I don’t have an easy way to reach out directly. So, Executive backers: Please get in touch by Kickstarter DM, or email me at jeff at left dash justified dot com.
Just as a reminder of the magnificence of the original edition campaign, here are the executive titles of the twelve (twelve!) formidable music executives we appointed back in the day:
Executive Director of Blazing Riffs and Fiery Encores
Executive Director of Thunderous Applause
Senior Vice President of Makin' It Happen
Senior Co-Vice Presidents of the Eternal Love That Only Music Can Bring
Vice President of Rocking This Joint
Managing Partner for Three-Chord Matters
Executive Procrastinator Extrordinaire
Vice President of Matters Concerning Discord and Harmony
Vice President of Strategic Power Chord Deployment
Chief Heavy Metal Operations Officer
Vice President of Existential Goat-Throwing
Managing Partner of True Belief in Music and Language
Dear Covid: Please be aware that we haven’t forgotten how to rock.
— Jeff
“The Wrong Time to Rock” = Album • “Original Edition” = Band • “Two Things Today” = Band • “We Haven’t Forgotten” = Album
Meeples Together: A New Book about Cooperative Games
over 5 years ago
– Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 04:34:43 PM
My Next Kickstarter is Going On Now
Hi, Band or Album backers. I hope you're still having a great time identifying bandtasticism and calling out albumlyness in the world around you.
I wanted to drop you a quick note because I'm part of a new Kickstarter project called Meeples Together, a book about how and why cooperative games work.
"The White Box" = Album
almost 7 years ago
– Wed, May 03, 2017 at 03:05:33 PM
Short and sweet, Band or Album backers:
My latest Kickstarter endeavor is The White Box, a game design workshop-in-a-box. It's for people who think game design is awesome. If that's you, have a look. If it's someone you know, pass the link along?
My thanks, and I hope your Band or Album'ing is still going strong. I carry my coin in my left back pocket pretty much every day.
—Jeff
"The Meditations" = Band
almost 8 years ago
– Tue, May 17, 2016 at 08:01:24 PM
Last night I blasted out download links to Thirteen Meditaions on #EarwormNinja, with Two Bonus Games for Online Amusementto all y'all Band or Album backers. That's three meditations and two bonus games more than promised, but when you're moved to add meditations and bonus games, you add them.
That's the last of the promised Band or Album rewards. Since you've had your coins for a couple of months now, think of it as an encore. I hope you enjoy reading and playing #EarwormNinja.
As an early adopter, you've no doubt been exposing Band or Album to late-coming non-trendsetters who weren't plugged-in enough to back the campaign, or who didn't get it at the time. Bless you.
If your Band or Album–lacking friends, neighbors, and countrymen need to remedy their situation, bandoralbum.com is their one-stop shop. Although the order page currently speaks of "Pre-Orders" (we'll get that fixed soonish), it's still active for post–Pre-Orders. Folks who leap aboard now have missed out on the Black Nickel and Platinum premium finishes — those are all gone — but non-trendsetters must sleep in the bed that brought them, if you'll forgive me for taking a pair of metaphors out behind the shed and shooting them.
Adventure Retail, Ltd. (look for Atlas Games in the show directory) will be selling Band or Album and Origins, San Diego Comic Con, Gen Con, and Dragon Con. Campaign Coins will have them at Gen Con, along with about a billion other wonderful coinages, so visit them, won't you?
If you didn't receive something you're due from the campaign, drop me a line. There are three of you floating around who haven't responded to your BackerKit surveys, for example. I'll assume that's a political statement of some kind until I hear otherwise.
Thanks again, mightily, for supporting Band or Album. All y'all are the best.
