Hi Tracy, I did a search on this topic, but I couldnt come up with anything, so I thought this the best place to ask. Are there any plans to start up an official fan club for the Dev/SYL at all?

This is the official fan club! =)

Well if you'd like... I'll collect membership dues (and donate them to an animal shelter) then send you some bits of string.

Well if you'd like... I'll collect membership dues (and donate them to an animal shelter) then send you some bits of string.

Maybe if you write "Dev" on the string..or a bit of paper..

I would join a fan club for sure. $40US seems a pretty reasonable amount, I would suggest... Maybe you can do like NIN and Tool etc and have an exclusive shirt with a more expensive membership. Maybe you guys feel a little funny about taking cash off fans like that but if you did a good job of it it would be good value, like if you had competitions, the occasional autographed poster or something, maybe an EP of odds and ends that Devin feels alright releasing to the club at the end of every year... I'm sure you guys could think of other things!

I would join a fan club for sure. $40US seems a pretty reasonable amount, I would suggest... Maybe you can do like NIN and Tool etc and have an exclusive shirt with a more expensive membership. Maybe you guys feel a little funny about taking cash off fans like that but if you did a good job of it it would be good value, like if you had competitions, the occasional autographed poster or something, maybe an EP of odds and ends that Devin feels alright releasing to the club at the end of every year... I'm sure you guys could think of other things!

Thats the sort of thing I was thinking of as well, something like the Linkin Park Underground/NIN etc. Would be pretty cool if monetarily possible.

Well, I'll send you a tracing of a hand that shook Dev's aboot four times.

and for an extra $20, I'll make it into a turkey.

[Tracy]

I'm not really that into official fan clubs. Contests and stuff are not that different from what we already do with the members of the mailing list. There's little information I can provide "exclusively" that wouldn't be available worldwide in an hour on-line. And we will never again release exclusive or limited edition recordings. All that ends up happening is the people who did get it (Official Bootleg as the prime example) then turn around and sell it for $100 on Ebay. We don't really want to sell that CD anymore but we had no choice but to bring it back.

In this information/auction age, with a Fan Club all you end up doing is a lot of work that will be 1. known by everyone in a few days anyway 2. exclusive products will be flipped and sold to people who weren't lucky enough to get them the first time around.

I could see the point 15 years ago but not any more.

I can see your point, not to mention all the extra work it would be. It's good you've still got things like the Official Bootleg on sale yourself so it doesnt end up being $100 on eBay. Now if we could only get the Guitair video and that French sampler CD I wouldnt have to keep looking on eBay. Haha just kidding, this is close enough to a fan club for me anyway so I'm happy.

What "French sampler CD"?
And don't forget "Idom"...

What "French sampler CD"?

I Think he speaks of that one :



The tracklisting is :
Truth
Kingdom
Life
Red tomorrow
Christeen

Not that this would be the case with a Devin fanclub, but I've had zero luck with fanclubs. I've joined 3 in my lifetime and never once received everything I was promised. A bit disappointing really.

I Think he speaks of that one :

I do I do I do speak of that one. I saw someone pay like $250 AUD for one once. But it is a real collectors piece so its not that surprising.

I Think he speaks of that one :

I do I do I do speak of that one. I saw someone pay like $250 AUD for one once. But it is a real collectors piece so its not that surprising.

I have it for just one stamp and a coupon taken from Hard Rock Magazine (French Mag)