The Needle Drop is now on Steemit!

in introduceyourself •  7 years ago 

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Hey, everyone! Anthony Fantano here, a.k.a. the Internet's busiest music nerd. I host a music-themed webshow whose roots go back to the early days of YouTube. For years, I built my brand off consistent, detailed, video-based music reviews of the latest records out there.

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It's now grown into an influential music journalism platform where I'm regularly delivering everything from thinkpieces to weekly track roundups. I'm looking forward to delivering everything I have to offer to the Steemit platorm, and looking hoping to seeing music the discussion grow on this platform grow.

Here's a recent example of my work posted on the site:
https://steemit.com/music/@theneedledrop/eminem-revival-album-review

Finally, a big shoutout to @davidpakman for introducing me to the platform, and showing me the ropes.

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Welcome to Steemit Anthony! I've been a big fan of your reviews for a long time and it's great to see an influential music journalist such as yourself joining us here on the blockchain.

You'll find that there's quite a strong musical community here already, headed up by @luzcypher 's weekly #openmic contest, the @msp-waves radio station and @meno 's #openmicsongwriters Songwriter's challenge, and I'm sure all the musical Steemians are thrilled to have you joining this community.

Oh and how could I forget @dsound! Which is basically SoundCloud but based on the Steemit blockchain.

Please tell me there is a mobile app for DSound?

I don’t think so but @prc makes it and would know

Yo, do you know if there's any way we can verify if this is actually the real melon? Might be someone trying to make a quick buck...

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@ausxen I just have trouble believing it because Anthony hasn't mentioned it at all in his recent videos or made any announcements on twitter. Also, he really didn't seem to know much about crypto in the video he posted today on the fantano channel entitled "Will Bitcoin Impact How We Buy Music?"

I also thought about this and I sent him an email pointing out the steemit profile. So I'm now waiting for a reply or some proof. I'll be back if I get any answer.

ohh yeah ! didnt know of it before but really am looking forward to check out dsound.. gotta start recording soon :)

You absolutely should! Also @musicoin.

Welcome to steem. I found out about you from the NoJumper podcast. Hopefully you can help us expand the Steem Community.

Hey auxsen, i am also a music lover and i wanna be a part of the music community even though i am just a newbie

@kingblack if you haven't already, definitely check out @luzcypher for the open mic. It's the best way to get an idea of who's on here playing/supporting music. Some of my personal favourites include @meno, @passion-ground, @verbal-d and @krystle who judge the contests, @lk666 who plays a mean guitar and recently started #hornsupsaloon (although tbh I don't fully understand what it's about as of yet), @onetruebrother an impressive songwriter, @kayclaritywho is an AMAZING singer, and @buckydurddle who does software tutorials.

I'm sure I missed a bunch in that list but if you hit up their posts and go through the comments sections I'm sure you'll have connections with most of the relevant Steemit musicians in no time :)

Also #music, #openmic, #originalmusic are the tags you wanna keep an eye on

you're doing it so, so wrong

happy to be here!!!

A haiku for you:

Steemit is so much
more awesomer than YouTube
Soon, all will be Steem

I am new, too, lolz... But I am already in love with this platform. A hearty welcome to you, sir, I am glad to see you here!

Very cool to have an experienced content creator introduced. Hope we all can learn from that as well!

Give it a year and you'll probably leave Youtube completely for Steemit. Centralized monetization is theft. Decentralized social media platforms are the future!

Acabo de inscribirme pero ya me engancho esta plataforma, seguiré descubriendo sus bondades, Spherechain espero en poco tiempo dar una opinión sobre tu teoría de dejar a Youtube

my experience with centralized social media platforms have been annoying to say the least. when I found out about decentralized social media platforms like the steem blockchain I began to study the implications of what it takes to be a YouTuber and used to the history of successful content providers to formulate a plan of action that I could fuse into my style and begin that Journey here on steemit and dtube. All I can say is that if you take the time to create thumbnails and high-quality content, consistency and discipline will Propel you towards the dream we all have of creating for a living

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Ah @DavidPakman... so you're behind this! Lol. Thanks for helping bring more musicians over to Steemit!

I'll hope you'll be bringing your finest Death Grips memes with you
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A AWESOME post.

Welcome Anthony.

HI~

Welcome to Steemit Anthony! Good luck here!

Anthony!! The one and only thing I follow on youtube! Howdy, greetings and welcome to the absolute best platform in the world. I'm the drummer of Maserati and I can tell you it was a -deal- when Pyramid of the Sun got covered. Also: thanks for featuring End of Man on your twitter. That was pretty much my baby, recording wise, and it meant the world to see coverage from somebody whose opinions I pretty much consume regardless.

It is a source of great Steem-y hope for me that you found us here and saw the opportunity. Here's to a killer 2018. Welcome aboard.

thanks, man!!! :-)

Welcome to the platform! Man we need more music content here. So happy you arrived.

I am so glad that Anthony came here! I am going to produce music for this community and post blog posts about the creation process soon here on Steemit! Just discovered the DSound! I am going to test that out! So excited to be here!

It's so beautiful to have you here on steemit. I took time to come welcome you and I know you will love it here. Welcome to our family. @greatness96

at least you mentioned Venetian Snares in a video ;)

whoa someone who knows Venetian Snares

You are having a great start, we hope that you will spread the gospel of steemit to your audience.

@autofreak is here to see you prosper.

Let me be the first one to welcome you Anthony, here in a few minutes many more will come and bombard you with greetings and support. This is a fantastic platform with endless possibilities, but I can be confusing at times. If you ever need help with anything David knows how to reach me, I wish you much success....

Welcome to your new home

i'd love to learn more if possible. feel free to hit me up at [email protected].

Hello!

Welcome Anthony, I am a fan of your reviews on YouTube and it's so great that your here now. You will find a big music community here.

MMMMEEEELLLLOOOONNNN!!!!
Steemit just got significantly more exciting :)

So hyped your on here!

thanks, man! :-)

Holy Crap, I remember watching your Danny Brown XXX review years ago. You put me on Danny Brown. It's awesome to see you joining Steemit! Sweet!!!

Welcome! It’s about time you got here! Lol but seriously its great to see the platform growing and bringing in new people like you

My man! Dave got me involved too. Hopefully we can discuss metal again soon!

Melonhead!! It's awesome to see you on here. Are you into the crypto game, or is this a first? If you are, I'd be curious to see what coins you are into and/or thoughts on certain coins. You could make a video out of it!

Also thanks for getting me into BROCKHAMPTON <3

Saturation III is my favorite

Hi this is @sarahandrew, Welcome on steemit, if you need help you can check @steemguide. Wish you all the best for what you are expecting here

Welcome to the "Brave New World" of @steemit. I'm sure with time you will get around checking out the music scene here, and especially check out the ongoing @openmic weekly contest put on by @luzcypher it's some good stuff for this community.

Love your work Anthony, been a fan of theneedledrop for years. I would consider my YouTube consumption to be more than the average person so I am very excited to see top quality content creators like yourself giving steemit/Dtube a try. I'm sure the community will quickly take to your work

All the best!

nice post

@needledrop
Any chance, now that monetisation is now an option, of reviving the meme review exclusively on steemit?

Given the decentralised system here, it is unlikely that any old guard media outlets will have any incentive to write further hit-pieces of you - lest they accidentally advertise the steemit platform and piss off their advertisers...just a thought...from a fan

Oh heck yes, I need that meme review.

Welcome to Steemit!

Very cool to have you on board ! the music community here is growing very fast and strong! wish you the best here , I will be following :) .

Welcome :) happy you are finally here. I know you from youtube.

Love your videos! Welcome to steemit. :)

@theneedledrop Welcome and wish you big success here

Welcome to steemit! It would be awesome if you could check out my page or my last article! I try to post only music related articles just like you :)

i'd be happy to. i wanna see a music community grow on here.

Welcome, my friend. Start grinding. I wish you good luck.

Welcome to steemit my friend, wish you lucky in steemit, i am new in steemit. You can see my profile if you can https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@azhari.mfr/hello-steemians-welcome-to-steemit-community-b583cbb5a914d
Nice see you here, together we can do it.
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Welcome to Steemit Anthony! I bet you will like it here, this is a place to stay :)

So happy you've signed up for Steemit. I love your YouTube videos and respect your opinion on music so will be interesting to see what you post on here. The music tag is in dire need of some decent content!

I'm glad you joined steemit! I'm excited to see the hip hop and music genres grow here

I'm so glad to be in this organization Steemit

Welcome to Steemit. More great content the better. Done any reviews on upcoming Aussie bands?

Welcome to Steemit Anthony.
Nice one.
Do follow me please and upvote.
Thank you.

You know things are getting serious when a 1 mln subber comes to town 🙌

Holy Moly, it's @theneedledrop!

Dude I love your vids! I just had to click your introduceyourself post... couldn't believe you're here already.

Welcome to Steemit, I hope you find everything you're looking for around here. Stick it to the centralized man!

Cheers!

You were one of the first people to get me into Vaporwave

Nice to meet you!

Coming from Youtube to welcome you!

Very cool. Might be awnding you some music soon. 🤘

I like your music reviews. Looking forward seeing them on Steemit.

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This is spamming!

heeyyy I remember u on YT, Anthony!! =))
Good to c great people joining here!
WELCOME!

welcome to steemit

Welcome on steemit 😃

Welcome to Steemit Anthony! I haven't heard of your youtube channel before but I'm glad you've had success doing video reviews of current music! I'm starting a music blog through steemit myself it's the first time I've attempted a music blog, but I've always wanted to do one and finally feel like I can through steemit. I'm sure you'll have success here, people are very friendly here. Just gave you a follow.

Welcome and thanks for your introduction

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Awesome!

Nice to find you & glad you could join us. I'll be honest I've never heard of you before this moment, however it sounds like you'll fit right in.

There's an extremely supportive and ever growing music community on Steemit that I'm pretty sure will appreciate your talents and contributions.

All the best
JB

Awesome!

Welcome!

@theneedledrop How did you get reputation point of 51 so early. Cool! Find my very firts blog here https://steemit.com/busy/@karthikix/23zy8m-my-first-5-days-on-steemit

Awesome to see you on here! Huge fan of your reviews and the depth and consistency that you put into them. You've put me onto lots of new artists over the years. Welcome!

how can i get a copy of it?

Found you for the vaporwave / macintosh plus album review quite some time ago. Happy to see you onboard @theneedledrop!

Dear really your greatest post please support me Steemit I'm grow up thank you

Welcome to steemit! Glad you made it over Anthony, you are going to fit right in! @theneedledrop and I will certainly be following. You are going to love steemit and dtube!

You're welcome, you'll love it here

Hello Steemians! I am new here. Do check out my post in introduceyourself!

This will be great!

You are highly welcome to the steemit platform.

many youtubers are comming here now

Welcome @theneedledrop, the more legends on steemit the better.

Welcome to Steemit! It's got a steep learning curve, but it's worth it in the long run if you keep putting in the time! Just know that it will take quite a while before you start getting attention and followers. The secret to success? Keep posting high quality content regularly, and make sure to search out other people's posts, read them, and give relevant comments.

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Posting more than four times a day can actually reduce your potential rewards, as well as turning off potential users. (I aim for one post per day most of the time.)

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happy to see you've been here, I often see you on youtube, hopefully here you are just as successful. regards introduction https://steemit.com/healthy/@jeffryphysio/bad-effects-of-using-steemit-for-too-long

It's so cool seeing creators I already know from other platforms find their way to Steemit. I hope Steemit serves you well:)

Welcome to this amazing community...........

Ayee the legend of music reviews!!!!

@theneedledrop been watching your content on YouTube. Pretty exciting to see you transit from YouTube to Steemit!

yeeeha another one :) Welcome!

Yes! How refreshing to see you here! Welcome, Anthony!

Wow, I just joined today as well... Love your reviews usually, recently Brockhampton Sat III was great

Plz vomte me

Am Happy to know you Mr @theneedledrop on this platform,and I love your post. Sir am a saxophonist learner, and please i need your motivational post to help me to become international saxophonist. Thanks, following you right a way.

Welcome to Steem! Hope you enjoy your stay here :)

Wonderful you've found your way here.
I hope you will add value to steemit both online and offline.
You're welcome!

Good make it known and I think many people like me is interested.

Yooooo Fantano I'm so hype you found out about steemit! Goodluck!

I am happy to see the post

welcome to steemit. You will do great here. Share your knowledge with all of us.

Hey man. I think you reviewed by band Noise Addict's re-release on Numero Uno last record store day. Anyway, good to see you here.

Welcome to steemit, good to have you here.

Welcome to Steemit Anthony! I will look for your youtube channel. I am new here too

You made a great choice joining this awesome community.That will make you for other platform You’re going to have a great time here. Keep Steeming!

thanks! :-)))))))))

Welcome to Steemit! I’ve been following you on YouTube for the better part of this year. Glad you joined this amazing community. Exciting things are happening here!

Welcome to the platform man! I've watched your videos in youtube and they're wonderful to watch. :)
we'll be looking forward to your post here @theneedledrop

This is really great news! Hope you make some exclusive content here! As a music nerd love to watch your reviews!

Right on man, welcome.

Welcome to the platform.

Welcome to steemit @theneedledrop! Happy to have another awesome creator here!

Welcome to Steemit!

Welcome to Steemit If you want some support gettign started as you grow with Steemit try out https://shadowbot.us to give you a few upvotes right from the start, and as your page grows in steem power you will grow rewards from shadowbot as well.

Was a huge help for me getting started and still is a huge help today.

I also joined the site because of @davidpakman mentioning it on his show!

It looks like you're off to an amazing start. Best of luck to you!

Welcome !! Nice to meet you, soon you ll enjoy in this community you ll rock here also :D