Legend Of Rock

By Garth Davis, Monday,11 May, 2009 at 10:07 am

Hi I'm Garth, co-founder of http://www.digirama.co.nz which was the first digital music download web site in NZ to offer major record label content, and the smallest company in the world (2 dudes) to have a full catalog store with all major labels on board. When we first starting looking into creating digiRAMA, we faced constant struggles and everyone told us that we were wasting our time, but we persisted, and four and a half years later digiRAMA has become one of the longest running digital download stores in the world... it's a tough business!

I'm predominantly a .NET developer (although I dabble in any other framework that excites me) who has a passion for new technology and ideas, I'm continually re-educating myself with all and any infomation that I find interesting. So when the opportunity arose with the possibility of attending any IT conference in the world, I said "yes please!".

I recently attended the WEB 09 conference in Auckland which I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend to anyone working in a web space (I believe it is going to become an annual fixture). I would REALLY like to attend the MIX conference (http://live.visitmix.com) in Las Vegas next year as it presents the latest and greatest web technogies, and offers some insite into how the web is evolving. I definately think it would be much more inspirational to be there in person rather than watching webcasts :s

With regards to the traditional definition of a Rockstar (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rockstar), I've been playing the guitar for 16 years, singing for 8 years and drumming for 2 years. I've rocked out with many bands and played gigs with several New Zealand rock legends.

4 Comments

  1. Dave Johnston of The Zoup fame

    12 May, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    Hells yeah! Nice, didn’t know you were such an experienced musician, be sweet to hear you play the gat sometime.

  2. Garth Davis

    12 May, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    @Frosty - I’ve generally always played in cover bands (not much of a song writer myself) so don’t have any of my own recorded material. Pretty much all the songs I’ve ever played are available on digiRAMA though, by the original artists ;)

    Contrary to the above however, there is actually an original album of mine of digiRAMA but it’s not of the ‘rock’ genre, it’s a budgo dance/house album I made back in ‘98 while I was studying audio engineering. We actually use that album to allow customers to give digiRAMA a try for free, hence it’s cost of $0.

    http://www.digirama.co.nz/AlbumDetails.aspx?MediaID=210934

  3. Frosty

    12 May, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    Sweet rock! How much of your music can we download from Digirama?

  4. Daniel Huynh

    12 May, 2009 at 1:20 am

    Dam right you’re a rockstar.

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