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Originally Posted by nightinr
I've thought this for a number of years that the official website is nothing short of a disgrace for an established star such as Meat.
Surely one of his management team could at least update it every few months. To still be advertising the Las Vegas shows is embarrassing and is hardly encouraging new young fans in this digital era.
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Meat has tried a succession of companies in the running of his official website. For many years he had an international fan club run out of Seattle, and his international website was run by a fan, who despite serious ill-health kept it up to date out of personal love and commitment until she died. Since then he has tried a succession of companies who run websites for artists and has not been served well by any of them. The first promised much and delivered nothing; in fact took membership fees and failed to deliver anything promised in exchange. He got out of that contract as soon as it was possible, and the next was somewhat improved. (It had a forum, but that was poorly moderated, and he had it closed down.)
Since then it has been hard to track who actually runs the site, there have been I think a few companies, none of whom seem to have shown much interest in anything save merchandising. Currently that is still managed by Live Nation. Who run the main page is difficult to see .. it seem to rely on automatic updates from his FB page. I don't think his "management team" had direct input into the sites, and may not have now either?
Three years ago he was exploring the possibility of a new website, one which would have had amongst other things a platform for people at shows to make donations to The Painted Turtle. That never came to pass for what reasons I don't know. Perhaps though at this stage in his career he feels that Facebook is a simple, and easy vehicle he can access and control himself, and fairly comprehensive in its reach? It is a medium which so many people (particularly the young) use now, and he has over a million followers who have "liked" the page and get automatic notifications of information posted, plus additional fans who simply visit the page.
The "Official website" now is a page which offers any visitor the opportunity to get alerts on tour dates and directs people to his FB page. I don't know who "runs" it. It would be good to see the main banner updated, but it seems to be simply a foothold to direct people to FB now.