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  • From: rws6 <rws6 AT duke.edu>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: 23 Acts, 4 Stages = Sat Nite in Carrboro
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:36:16 -0400

well, mark simonsen (if that is indeed who wrote this post), you were right
about one thing:

GRADY'S BAND TOTALLY SUCKS!!! if grady's band were shit, it would be
dysentary.

~r~



Quoting Mark Simonsen <fracas66 AT yahoo.com>:

> It is exactly this kind of petty comment that makes the Chapel Hill
> music scene seem so exclusive and cliquish. Why is it that every time people
> in this community try to get together to do something GOOD, somebody has to
> come along and completely trash it and the people who worked so hard to put
> it together?
> I have watched Catherine Kerr work tirelessly to promote our music
> scene- much moreso than any other individual that I know (she is responsible
> for curating the displays of local rock memoribilia throughout Carrboro). I
> cannot sit back and have my friends be so thoughtlessly criticized when they
> are generously and voluntarily contributing something GOOD to our community.
> Cat does this because she loves music- same reason most of us are on this
> list. But instead of sitting in front of a computer screen bitching and
> moaning about every shakeup in the local status quo, she is actually out
> there doing the shaking.
> Sorry Grady (if that is who wrote the post to which I am responding).
> What makes picking up the Independent so hard? It's FREE! It's at almost
> every club in town. How much easier can it be? Do we really need our inboxes
> choked up with the minutae of everyone's schedules?
> So the Indy awards are not "Indy" enough for you? Well it's their first
> year doing it. Maybe you can get involved next time and make it better.
> Your band didn't make it onto the ballot? Maybe you didn't play in
> front
> of the right people. Maybe you didn't do enough leg work (running a band is
> hard work and takes a lot of time). Or maybe your band just plain sucks.
> It's enough to make a person want to simply bid this listserve a fond
> farewell. (By the way- i have never heard your band should you actually have
> one so the statement about your band "sucking" is completely hypothetical).
> grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Oh, I get it. Yr high-priced communication-consultant brain says "if I
> post the full lineup here, I'll have no reason to tell them to pick up a
> copy of the paper."
>
> Tell me, who was the one with the brilliant idea to not print any
> biographical information about the nominees until *after* the voting was
> over? I'm sure there was some strategic thinking behind that one as
> well, but I can't quite suss it out.
>
> Probably the same person who didn't think to post MP3s of the nominated
> songs to the website . . . heaven forbid anyone get to hear what they're
> voting for.
>
>
> catherine kerr wrote:
>
> > Have Fun / Great Bands on Sat Nite - All this and more will be had at the
> > Indy Music Awards - Sat, Oct 2nd from 6-1
> > Tickets are $10 at the ArtsCenter and the Cat's Cradle.
> > Check the complete schedule in this week's Indy.
> > COME...support yourselves and your friends.
> >
> > www.indymusicawards.com
> >
> >
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