Song Bidding Competition

The Rock-afire Explosion New Show Bid List
This page updated on 8/19/08

Have you wanted to see the Rock-afire Explosion perform your favorite song?  Would you like to have us program a song for your girlfriend, boyfriend, mother or child?  Well, here's how to make it happen! 

"Song Bidding Competition" is  the  page where the list of songs being bid on for the Rock-afire Explosion to perform are listed. 

"Winning Songs" is the page where the songs which have won the bidding and have been choreographed and video taped are listed.  One or two of these may still be in process at any particular time.

"Our Policy on Dirty Songs" is self explanatory.

For a song to win, the bidding for that song must reach at least $200, but, we really hope the bids will reach much higher levels eventually as an average song takes about a week of work or more.   We are always working on the song(s) at the top of the list.  We will keep selecting songs to do as we finish one and are planning  to eventually be completing one new song a week regardless of whether the bids are low or high.  We will be adding choreographers to the team to help produce these videos, so you will see the pace of videos being produced pick up over the coming months.

The song with the highest total bids will be meticulously programmed, and produced as a video and posted on the "fanprograms" channel on YouTube.  If your song is not today's winner,  the bids will be carried over to tomorrow, and into the future,  increasing its chances of eventually winning.  The money collected from these bids will be used to compensate the choreographers for their work and to maintain their Rock-afire Explosions and possibly pay for beer and child support. 

To place a bid for a song, please send your donation/bid of  any amount  ($5.00 minimum) by PayPal to aaron.fechter@gte.net.  I had to raise the minimum bid because of the high fees PayPal takes for small amounts. 

Please state the name of the song/artist you are bidding to have choreographed and videotaped.  When bids are received for songs, the song titles and total bid amounts will be listed here as soon as possible, and you will receive an email notifying you that your bid has been received and posted.  Good luck bidding.

For more information, please contact Creative Engineering, Inc. at aaron.fechter@gte.net

UPDATE on 8/19/08

Arcade Fire is done and published!  Whew! I have taken the top two songs from the bid list, "Lollipop" and "Mary" and put them into production.

Winning Songs

Our Policy on "Dirty" Songs

Most recent winner is done!!
"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
By Arcade Fire

I am officially announcing, at 2:16 A.M. on 8/19/08 the next winners!  Yes, I am picking two songs at the same time tonight instead of one and will work on them simultaneously, sort of.
The top two songs are "Lollipop" and "Mary".  Congratulations, and I hope you like these productions.  It will be about a week before I start work on these shows as I need to push my Animatronics Experimenter's Kit along first, but then, these songs will be programmed, videographed (is that a word?) and published for all to enjoy.

I also do not have the help of any other choreographers yet, so doing this work has to be squeezed in with everything else I have to do including completing the Animatronics Experimenters Kits and handling a law suit against copyright pirates. 

Please keep this in mind when you bid on a song.  There's no magic button to instantly create these shows.

I am bravely raising the minimum winning amount to $200.  Just for comparison, I put about 80 hours and $200 into props and maintenance to do the last show and I desperately need to invest in lights, cameras and computers to do a better job.

This only applies to new songs put on the list after 8/16/08.  All songs on the list as of that date are still eligible to win with $100 total bids.

Aaron