We have adjusted the time for the meet and greet due to the logistical variables of the tour. The Make a Difference Tour WIRED meet and greet will now take place at INTERMISSION of the show.
We will need you to check in at WILL CALL to receive your passes and instructions/direction for the meet and greet. Please bring a photo id. Immediately following Third Day's set and Max Lucado's brief message (approximately 8:55 PM), there will be an intermission. During this time you will meet with a Third Day representative at the location detailed in the instructions you received at will call.
There you will have time to get autographs, have brief conversation, and have your picture taken with the band. Then, you should be able to make it back to your seats prior to Michael W. Smith's set which should begin about 9:25.
With a new album on the way, and extensive touring plans in the work for 2011, things promise to heat up around here.
All the meet and greet sign ups are now online for all upcoming shows through the Make A Difference Tour as well as a description of how the process will work.
I hope you've enjoyed the journal entries from Nathan throughout the summer. They have a been a bit of a preview of some changes we are working on for the whole website.
We are a touring band. LIVE is where we live. The Wired fan club was created to help you better connect with Third Day live. Our website often doesn't reflect that. A show might simply show up as a line of text to buy tickets, the event occurs, and except for an occasional youtube clip, the show leaves almost no footprint on the cyber landscape. As a wired member, you can listen to the show, but we have done little overall to share that experience with the larger community of Third Day fans.
We've been doing a lot of research on bands that do a good job of making a bigger deal of their live events online. I've spent hours clicking through Phish's website, Dave Matthews Band, U2 and others. We're hoping to emulate some of their best practices, but also move toward some unique applications just for us.
Eventually, we hope to be able to sell a digital download of every concert we perform, (you'll enjoy a wired discount on those purchases!) but in the meantime, we want to take The Wired Radio experience and present it to the larger community of Third Day fans. So, with the new website coming in October, anyone will be able to listen to Third Day concerts presented in a more focused manner, as well as peruse the show photos, videos, journalistic description, and linkable setlists. We're going to incorporate Comments around each of these shows and the subsequent song pages that you'll click to from the setlist. I'm especially excited about better sharing these experiences with our international fans.
As a wired member, your comments will be listed above any general comments. You set the tone! We're hoping this new emphasis will better highlight our concerts for a larger community of fans, and create a better online archive of your favorite concerts to be enjoyed for years to come. I also suspect it will push the band to make each concert even more of a unique experience!
In the coming weeks, we might give a few of you the chance to populate the website with comments around your favorite shows and songs before the site is opened to the general public. more to come....
So, we officially premiered the song "Make Your Move" from our upcoming album MOVE (October 19th) at our recent Tualatin, OR show. We've been hesitant to attempt more than two new songs (per Facebook suggestion) from an album that is not coming out for another 3 months. Lift Up Your Face is the single. Band Marketing 101: play your single. + We love the song. Gone will never be a single, barring a massive format change at Christian radio from Adult Contemporary to Heritage rock, but it feels like a comfortable pair of jeans that once you put on, you want to wear every day (even if they're a bit dirty!) All that to say, our allotted 2 new song slots are filled for the summer.
However, we have been taking advantage of the occasional soundcheck to work on new material. We worked Make Your Move up to fighting shape, and it just seemed like a shame to just put it in the garage without taking it for a lap around the track. I made the compelling case that "Peace" might as well be a new song as a good portion of the audience wasn't born when it was released, and as long as we played the new song well, no one would know the difference.
So, we decided to play the song for what could be just one night only for a while. We just played it. Didn't say anything, and moved on. But, I think it turned out pretty good for the first time out. I was hoping that the song would have made its way to YOUTUBE by now, but I think we outrocked the audio on all the cameras in the room. So for now, it's just for you. Check it out in the Wired radio wired members. It's the 2nd song in on Tualatin, OR show.
Also, if you listen on you'll notice that Oregon fans have the most obscure song requests we've ever encountered.
Tai
Greetings Wired Members,
I hope you're having a great summer. We're now officially done with our new project entitled "MOVE." The album will release on October 19th. Also, we just released our first single from the project to radio. It is a track called "Lift Up Your Face." We started this track with our friends in Needtobreathe on the Winterjam tour earlier this year. Just last week, we added the final touch to the mix, a guest appearance from The Blind Boys of Alabama.
As a wired member, you can pull up any of our recent shows and hear live versions of this song as well as a track entitled "Gone" as we work them into our live show. We're hoping to start incorporating some more new songs in the coming weeks as well. The only thing holding us back has been our crazy logistics. We don't want to attempt new songs until we have a chance to work on them in soundcheck, and our travel schedule and festival logistics haven't allowed for any sound checks. But, the good news is we're getting pretty solid on these two new tracks.
The Meet and Greet sign ups have been added for the upcoming 4 shows. We apologize for the delay. If you're in the NW, we hope you'll come see us this weekend.
We're in the process of working on a new site transformation that will include better integration of your wired features into the regular website.
Also, I've begun inquiry into developing a mobile APP for Wired which would allow you to
1. register for meet and greets
2. buy merch
3. view concert pics and
4. stream concerts from your mobile device.
We had a big meeting yesterday with the entire band and team discussing ways we can better serve you guys and some ideas to have some online chats in the coming months to let you hear our music ahead of the general public. Stay tuned.
The new Wired backdrop for photos came in to Memphis this last weekend. It helps to set up a nice shot with the band. Our previous white backdrop had become quite dirty, and was then unfortunately misplaced. I say unfortunately because I thought it would have made good ebay fodder. But, it was not to be.
Anyway, I think you'll enjoy the new backdrop as it frames your photo with the band very nicely. See you in the next 3 weeks as we wrap up the Winter Jam Tour.
For those of you that don't know, at the exclusive Wired meet and greet available to all Wired members, we take a picture of you with the whole band and host it at the Wired Site for you to download. This way, you always get a good shot with the band regardless of the venue's photo policy. Here's a picture with Denise, our fan of the day!
Tai
Hey Guys,
pretend your at one of those annoying mall focus groups for a second.
I'm looking at doing some tweaking and modifying to the Wired site and features in the next few months. I want to make it better. I want to give you better service. I want to get more members and I want to find new revenue streams for the band. What I perceive from the fan club is that the majority of members sign up for the ability to attend the wired meet and greet and then only a small fraction enjoy the rest of the features like the merchandise discount and wired radio and early ticketing. If you're reading this. That is probably not you. You are probably someone who takes advantage of it all.
The problem I see is that if people sign up only for the meet and greet, they're probably not likely to sign up again unless we happen to be coming back into town within a calendar year. However, if people are taking advantage of all that Wired offers, and we continue to make it more valuable, I think members will want to join over and over again. Which will allow us the ability to continue to serve you better.
Here's an idea I'm kicking around and working with our label to develop. What if the WIRED RADIO either went away or was supplemented by the ability to actually buy individual songs or entire concerts in .mp3 form? Bascially, anybody could come buy the concerts, but as a Wired member you'd get X number of concerts or song credits included in membership, and the 20% discount on future purchases. So, people would start signing up for Wired not just to meet the band, but as a Value for those who want to have copies of our live music, with the meet and greet being more of a bonus reason for joining. You could then rate songs or concerts and we'd develop forums around each performance. This way, you could look at the setlist and decide which concerts you want. Or, you could see the recommendations of other Wired Members to help make your purchases.
LIke, "check out otherside in Charleston, Bear from Needtobreathe sat in with the band." Or, "the mobile show was really anointed you should really check out the whole thing." You'd then have the ability to take concerts with you jogging or on a road trip with your ipod.
As the band tweaks the setlist throughout the year, you could stay in touch with the different concerts. I think it would push us to shake up the set as well.
Worth pursuing?
We will have a meet and greet in San Antonio. It will most likely take place before the show. If you will be attending the show and are a Wired member, sign up in the meet and greet section. It is listed with all the other Winterjam Dates.
We will then sound out an email to all those pre-registered the day before, and possibly the day of the show with all the details you need to attend the meet and greet.
thanks,
Tai
Hello Wired Folks,
Hey Guys,
Wired Road Representative, Mike Lehmann, has come down with Pneumonia. He won't be able to come out on this first run of shows. Those of you that have met Mike before know that he does a great job serving Wired members and making sure you have a great experience.
Please pray for his quick recovery so he can join us quickly back out on the tour.
Jenni from our management office will be filling in to take care of you guys on the first 3 shows.
Tai
After a lot of thought and looking at all the variables of the tour, we have decided that we will start out by holding our WIRED meet and greets immediately following our set each night. (The header on this page will change shortly)
To attend a meet and greet, you must log in and sign up on the WIRED site 24 hrs before the concert.
Then, at the venue, look for MIKE at the WIRED kiosk near the main Third Day merchandise display. Mike will make sure that you have the information to attend the meet and greet.
We may adjust the time of the meet and greet to intermission time as the tour develops, but there are too many logistical factors that we do not control, to try that now. We need to get on the road and see how the actual tour logistics play out.