Other Good Fan Clubs

63schoefflin

Just curious as to what your experiences were with joining some other fan clubs and if it was worth it or not. Debating Third Man Records because it seems like a pretty cool deal. Anyways, just curious as to what everyone's thoughts were.

Jamminonthe1

This is my one and only

samjam

Like the band or not, DMB's Warehouse is a great fan club.

javis el errante

haven't checked the TMR forum, plus, I'm overseas, you can join the TMR Vault membership without belong to the fan club, by suscribing the vault you have access to exclusive internet stuff, and of course, vinyl and dvd every three months, don't know how it works exactly, having sent emails since ever, never got a reply, seems vault membership is only for US residents... I spend some time in Noel Gallaghers forum, its ok, there are few people, they are pretty cool, but its almost empty, today I asked where are the NG fans, it's been two days since my last visit and nothing happend... NG is touring latin american and no latin america fans post there, and the US, CA UK and EU fans posted at the time, but the flow of post isn't like this... wonder why?

pjradio

i'm too old/tired to join another fan club...happily, this place is enough to keep me busy

PJArtist

Ditto:)

parintachin73

samjam wrote:

Like the band or not, DMB's Warehouse is a great fan club.

Most definitely. I'm not a huge fan, but I joined because my girlfriend is. Their ticketing system has it's ups and downs, much like 10C, but as far as merch goes, they blow this place oughta the water. Bigger, better selection, more frequent sales (like the Cinquo de Mayo sale that just happened with $5 shirts), and here's a concept, after a tour is over you can get almost ANY piece of tour merch through the DMB shop. Including, amazingly enough, the much sought after "sports style/event specific" shirts. Just my 2 cents, but I feel like the 10C could learn a few things by example.

Umbertotamba

Member of The Warehouse as well like the fanclub and the bonus discs you get when you preorder through it.

I also signed up for Third Man Records Vault recently and I will tell you how that works out when I get my first vault package.

Lost In Ohio

Phish charges everyone an extra $5 or $10 or whatever and gives everyone a code on their ticket to download that show almost immediately after it finishes.

Metallica's (from what I hear) goods come on time, as opposed to 10C's 6-7 months late. OTOH, they're more expensive. I'll take the 10C method if it means saving a few bucks.

Take Phish's concept of codes on the tickets and 10C is even better.

marcos

That's cool to hear about Metallica's fan club thing and even DMB though I don't listen to them. But these bands are so commercially successful so it's good they still pay attention to their fans. So it's fairly obvious that those fan clubs have more money thus maybe better services in some areas.

Pap

This is the only one with membership fee. I once gave the Soundgarden forum a chance but it didn't work out for me. However, I'm still a Soundgarden world member mostly because of the beautiful merch and of course the good news. Well, the last ones don't come so often.

63schoefflin

Interesting thoughts. Anyone hear anything about the MMJ one? It looked pretty decent.

DewieCox

63schoefflin wrote:

Interesting thoughts. Anyone hear anything about the MMJ one? It looked pretty decent.

Pretty cool. I haven't renewed yet, but for the price of joining you get a matching Tshirt/screenprint set, which is worth the price of admission alone. There are ticket perks(presale and soundcheck packages) and they've gave 2 songs in the "Self-hypnosis Series".



For those wondering about the 3rd Man record club. It's not a fanclub exactly. You pay $60 which covers the 3x$20/month for one quarter. Each quarter has a package that feature a full length 12", a 7" single and a rotating gift. There's been dvds, tshirts, a 2nd 7" record and screenprints for the 3rd piece. You get access to any online content they post and they also have some ticket perks but I'm not totally sure how they work.

The the packages work....Say you pay in January...they'll have a cutoff date and after that they'll figure up the quantity of packages they need to produce and about 3 months later they start shipping. About the time you're really ready for that arrive they'll post the next quarters package and it starts over again.




After seeing what Metallica, DMB and MMJ offer I dunno if 10c could really be considered that great of a fan club.

63schoefflin

That's good to know. I think I'll pull the trigger on TMR today and it stinks because 2 weeks ago I was debating MMJ but as of then they had no tour dates announced really besides overseas. A few days later they announced a slew of East Coast dates including Philly :fp:

Spiritual_Chaos

Thinking about getting into the MMJ fanclub. They have fanclub numbers like 10C?

he.who.forgets

Spiritual_Chaos wrote:

Thinking about getting into the MMJ fanclub. They have fanclub numbers like 10C?

I dont think so, but the new and improved Roll Call now awards you "points" for different things such as forum posts, forum friends, length of membership, etc. Now I have no idea what you're going to be able to redeem with these points but the concept is pretty cool.

81

he.who.forgets wrote:

awards you "points" for different things such as forum posts, forum friends, length of membership, etc. Now I have no idea what you're going to be able to redeem with these points but the concept is pretty cool.

interesting.....

Sheets Of Clay

he.who.forgets wrote:

Spiritual_Chaos wrote:

Thinking about getting into the MMJ fanclub. They have fanclub numbers like 10C?

I dont think so, but the new and improved Roll Call now awards you "points" for different things such as forum posts, forum friends, length of membership, etc. Now I have no idea what you're going to be able to redeem with these points but the concept is pretty cool.

They claimed when they started it there would be seniority, but they're not using that company anymore so who knows.

There is a points store, right now you can get last years poster of tshirt for 1000 points.

Two things about Roll Call:
1. It costs $43, which to me is kinda pricey
2. The tickets are awesome if they play seated venues, but they play lots of all GA shows. I've bought tix to 8 shows through Roll Call, 5 of them have been GA. On the other hand, the tix for the other 3 shows were 1st row, 1st row and 2nd row.

elvistheking44

DewieCox wrote:

63schoefflin wrote:

Interesting thoughts. Anyone hear anything about the MMJ one? It looked pretty decent.

Pretty cool. I haven't renewed yet, but for the price of joining you get a matching Tshirt/screenprint set, which is worth the price of admission alone. There are ticket perks(presale and soundcheck packages) and they've gave 2 songs in the "Self-hypnosis Series".



For those wondering about the 3rd Man record club. It's not a fanclub exactly. You pay $60 which covers the 3x$20/month for one quarter. Each quarter has a package that feature a full length 12", a 7" single and a rotating gift. There's been dvds, tshirts, a 2nd 7" record and screenprints for the 3rd piece. You get access to any online content they post and they also have some ticket perks but I'm not totally sure how they work.

The the packages work....Say you pay in January...they'll have a cutoff date and after that they'll figure up the quantity of packages they need to produce and about 3 months later they start shipping. About the time you're really ready for that arrive they'll post the next quarters package and it starts over again.




After seeing what Metallica, DMB and MMJ offer I dunno if 10c could really be considered that great of a fan club.

With the 3rd man package you have a chance at vault tix, which are the best seats in the house and you have no seniority bullshit to deal with. Pay this month, not the next you still have a shot at the tix......3rd Man /Jack White are light years ahead of any other.......

qontheboard

I actually prefer the "non - fan club sign up to the mailing list, don't spend a dime on Fan Club fees" system that some bands have.

Ben Harper - Signed up to the mailing list, and have had access to Pre Sales for every Ben Harper show that I wanted to attend. Scored 2nd row centre at Massey Hall through one of the pre sales.

Wilco - Just by signing up and not spending a dime on fan club fees, I've seen Wilco from 2nd row, 3rd row, 7th row and 10th row, not to mention the GA tix scored in pre sales to shows that sold out during the public sale.

That's just two examples. There are tons of bands that operate this way.

q

Zod

In my experience with fan clubs (as I've joined a great many just for tickets), the Metallica fan club seems to be the best oiled machine of all the fan clubs I've dealt with.

They provide easy access to tickets. They put out 4 magazines a year like clockwork. They communicate very well with email updates etc.... For me its been that fan club that sets the bar.

I've been in the U2 one in and out over the years (I mostly subscribe every year there's a tour to help get tickets). Its sort of a rollcoaster. Before fanfire took it over. It was called propoganda. It was really good. Not too expensive. Several magazines a year etc... Fanfire took it over and completely botched the tickets part. However over the years its been fine tuned. The last two tours I've had no problem getting floor tickets. They usually put out a year item. This years is going to be a live album compilation from the last tour on CD. Pretty cool.

Any other fan club I've been in has been a complete cash grab. IE you might get some stickers for signing up, but you're basically signing up for ticket access. It kind of sucks now. Some bands give equal access to their fan club tickets. Some bands only sell the good ones in premium packages (on top of a membership fee). I think alot of fan clubs have developed as a way to charge a premium on tickets that goes directly to the band.

LukinFan

qontheboard wrote:

I actually prefer the "non - fan club sign up to the mailing list, don't spend a dime on Fan Club fees" system that some bands have.

Ben Harper - Signed up to the mailing list, and have had access to Pre Sales for every Ben Harper show that I wanted to attend. Scored 2nd row centre at Massey Hall through one of the pre sales.

Wilco - Just by signing up and not spending a dime on fan club fees, I've seen Wilco from 2nd row, 3rd row, 7th row and 10th row, not to mention the GA tix scored in pre sales to shows that sold out during the public sale.

That's just two examples. There are tons of bands that operate this way.

q

This is how it should be

RKCNDY

81 wrote:

he.who.forgets wrote:

awards you "points" for different things such as forum posts, forum friends, length of membership, etc. Now I have no idea what you're going to be able to redeem with these points but the concept is pretty cool.

interesting.....

one 'fanclub' site I was looking into (can't remember which one) lets you 'earn' certain titles 'newbie', 'seasoned fan' 'hardcore fan' etc depending on the number of posts you have...though apparently someone will look thru your posts, so you have to have 'real' posts, no funsies posts just to boost post count...

Zod

LukinFan wrote:

qontheboard wrote:

I actually prefer the "non - fan club sign up to the mailing list, don't spend a dime on Fan Club fees" system that some bands have.

Ben Harper - Signed up to the mailing list, and have had access to Pre Sales for every Ben Harper show that I wanted to attend. Scored 2nd row centre at Massey Hall through one of the pre sales.

Wilco - Just by signing up and not spending a dime on fan club fees, I've seen Wilco from 2nd row, 3rd row, 7th row and 10th row, not to mention the GA tix scored in pre sales to shows that sold out during the public sale.

That's just two examples. There are tons of bands that operate this way.

q

This is how it should be

It probably depends on how much hands on work needs to be done. I'm guessing the 10c couldn't do it for free because they have to spend all that time sorting out the tickets based on senority. I'm guessing for less popular bands where there are fewer tickets and no senority it would require way less manpower?

PSUS2H

The Metallica Club (MetClub) is the jam! The boards are pretty quiet, but they have collectables come out atleast once a month, they post exlusive tour videos frequetly, they do the fan can every few years, and they have an annual garage sale. The garage sale is INCREDIBLE. Think of every limited item PJ did this year, then on one scheduled day they post everything in the store that was either returned or canceled from a bad check or CC. This year they have box sets, fan cans, t shirts, limited vinyls, shift knobs, and other cool stuff. Some of these items were orinially limited to 100 so to have a chance at them again was incredible. If anyone is going to join they have a referral program, when you get 5 people to sign up under your name you get an autographed item, 25 a signed ESP guitar!

rick1zoo2

Linkin Park is decent. For $60, you get a t-shirt, a flag, lanyard with membership laminate, earplug case keychain thing and of course pre-sale tickets. You also get a chance to attend pre-show Meet and Greets. There is also a $25 membership, same thing except no t-shirt or flag.

Presale worked smooth, I was able to get 5th row tickets this time. Last tour I went GA, my son and I were right up front.

And last night, got an email informing that they will hold their annual summit day of the show we are going to in Camden, NJ. This annual summit sounds like an extended meet and greet, backstage tours, soundchecks, acoustic sets, etc. This summit is free to members, you just have to get your pass through their ticketing system Saturday.

Last tour, they also gave a code to go online and download bootleg of the show.

Oh, and they are having a members only private show this weekend in LA.

Who Princess

A good friend who belongs to several fan sites (including 10C) has the highest praise for Metallica's.

63schoefflin

Alright may be a dumb question but I'm in for the Premium membership which is $60 for the vinyl and access to all that jazz on the website. Is it something completely different and I will need to "Subscribe" too for anything else? I think it was $20 a month for a few months. I don't think I need to but just want to make sure I'm not missing something.

Thanks

63schoefflin

TMR that is... Forgot to mention that part.