Dan Reed open up his own Rockshop in ICYou’s 3D Talk
ICYou welcomes Dan Reed to 3D Talk.
“The rockshop is revolutionary for us musicians. It not only lets us have a store where we can sell our merchandise directly to our friends and supporters, but it also lets us meet them almost as if it was in real life whenever they come and visit. This is one of the greatest ways for us musicians to stay in touch with the people who listen to our music.” says Dan Reed
The Rockshop is a service that ICYou offers to musicians, authors, painters and actors to meet up with their fan base. It is also a store from where they can sell their products be it CD’s, DVDs, books, paintings, T-shirts or featured concerts streamed to the users mobile phone. 3D TALK is a service that will be free to users built by ICYou
“We saw that we could help bring the artist closer to his audience and decided that this was a valuable service for everyone” says Lars Erik Ottenvall, CEO, ICYou AB
We also welcome Dan to be one of the artists that we put in our rockshop advisory board
Dan Reed:. *DAN REED.*
During the late Eighties, as the frontman of the Portland, Oregon, based multicultural funk rockers Dan Reed Network, he was an aspiring rock musician. But in the 16 years since he broke up the band, Dan Reed has been on a long physical, mental and spiritual journey which has taken him around the world and exposed him to the ideals and philosophies of a wide variety of cultures.
Following his brief series of warmly received solo shows in November
2008 - his first British dates in 15 years – Dan Reed is returning for a fuller acoustic tour in October and November throughout Europe, performing new songs which reflect the odyssey he’s undertaken from the hedonist lifestyle of a rock’n’roll musician to his recent active participation in new US President Barack Obama’s electoral campaign, from touring with the Rolling Stones in 1991 to living in a Tibetan monastery. Dan will also be playing old favorites from his DRN days.
Between 1988 and 1992, Dan Reed Network, managed by Bill Graham during that time, sold over 2 million albums worldwide and toured with the likes of Run DMC, UB40, Eddie Money, David Bowie, Bon Jovi and the Rolling Stones, until a trip to Dharamsala, India to interview the Dalai Lama for ‘Spin’ magazine in 1993 made Dan realise there was more to life than rock music.
The band was put on ice as he became involved in a number of different projects, which included acting, screenwriting and setting up his own record label. He wrote articles on subjects such as homelessness, Tibetan independence, Native American rights (Dan is himself partially of Native American descent) and animal rights and became actively involved in PETA and Young Audiences of America. In 1999 he set up a nightclub in Portland, called OHM, which specialised in cutting edge electronica and rock.
The death of his father in 2003 forced him to re-examine his life and realise that late nights at OHM were sapping both his energy and his creativity. Leaving Portland, he headed back to India for a year, during which he studied Buddhism while living in a Tibetan Monastery guest house, and then, after meeting a number of Israeli artists and musicians, decided to explore the Middle East. Settling in Jerusalem, he built a small studio and started recording music again, bridging the cultural and political divide by working with musicians from both Israel and Palestine.
Dan believes that as the world faces challenging times, the lines between entertainment and activism are starting to break down. To this end, on his return to the US, he threw himself into President Barack Obama’s electoral campaign, creating and performing at fundraising events and at the recent inaugural celebrations. Dan is also a Vice-Chairman of the Board for The Middle East Peace Civic Forum, a Washington-based organisation which promotes a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel.
Having come full circle and returned from his long journey older and wiser than the funk rocker of the last millennium, Dan Reed is now back where he belongs - creating music that will entertain, inform and inspire.
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About ICYou AB:
ICYou AB is a Sweden-based company. It was formed during the summer of 2007 by entrepreneur Fredrik Nilsson. The business idea is essentially a global media and marketing concept that is conceived out of the growing need for individuals to meet and socialize with others in so-called virtual communities, coupled with businesses’ needs to find novel, effective marketing channels in order to reach this new and fast-growing market segment. ICYou’s virtual world, Interactive City, is based on advanced computer game technology and will through its unique interactivity and high-grade pictorial details offer opportunities to build trademarks, advertise, sell products and offer services - in a way that has never been done before! It will be a mirror of reality with its citizens, communications, educational institutions, rules and laws, entertainment, means of socializing, businesses, authorities and free market economy.
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