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  • From: rick sawyer <rickbang AT gmail.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Undergraduates and Local Music
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:02:40 -0500

nobody doubts the vitality of your commitment to viva, phaedra. nobody.


> the only problem w/high-school shows is that they make me feel very, very
> old and creaky...
>
> phaedra
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Feb 11, 2005 11:47 AM
> To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: Undergraduates and Local Music
>
> I think there's a fair amount of segregation between the two scenes
> here, but there is plenty of overlap, too. Certainly a few years ago
> Strunken White drew shitloads of high school and college+ kids to their
> shows, and Natasha were doing the same up til their untimely demise.
>
> The B-Sides/Never were all high-school age when they started, as were
> some of those Tunnell boys in Vibrant Green. Rubeo were a "high school
> band" who eventually morphed into des_ark.
>
> Plus there is the whole Trekky Records crowd, which seems to have seized
> upon Nightlight as the most-accessible club for underage kids, which I
> think is great.
>
> I'm such a slackass that I haven't made it out to see any of the Trekky
> bands--except for Choose Your Own Adventure, that is, who are all much
> older than college-age & who are I guess some proof of continued
> cross-pollenation between the high school & "adult" scenes.
>
> I think if anything, a lot of "adult" music fans around here are more
> than willing to check out the high school bands without even consciously
> thinking of them as "high school bands" or at most, noting it in passing
> & then moving on.
>
> I'm not sure how that relates to what we're talking about, though,
> although certainly the demise of Strunken White & Natasha had everything
> to do with post-graduation scatter.
>
> Should there be more all-ages shows? Definitely, of course, yes. Are
> there *already* a lot? Yes--aren't all Cradle shows all-ages? Nightlight
> seems to be permanently all-ages. Go used to be flooded with high school
> kids for certain shows, but so much for that, I guess.
>
> Ross
>
> bendy wrote:
> >
> > grady wrote:
> >
> >> Keep in mind also that last time I checked, *both* the Cave and Local
> >> 506 were strictly 21-and-over venues, albeit with varying levels of
> >> ID-checkage at the Cave, at least. That is very much an
> >> "unapproachable" factor for the majority of undergrads.
> >
> >
> > This was something I was going to bring up, too, and I think Randy hit
> > upon it as well when he mentioned that Charlotte had a good *high
> > school* scene. This is indeed a balding rock scene, very much
> > post-drinking age. Which is odd, 'cause compared to other scenes, the
> > drinking ain't a big part of it.
> >
> > But for all our sprawl, we dont' really have a suburban scene that feeds
> > into the metro scene. I grew up in the greater Boston area, and you
> > definitely had the "kids" bands (Gang Green, Throwing Muses) that got
> > the matinees in the clubs, and the "grown-up" bands that never did all
> > ages shows (Blackjacks, Til Tuesday), but there was continuity between
> > it. Like how Til Tuesday won the battle of the bands one year, followed
> > by Gang Green the next year, who did their own version of Voices Carry.
> > Some of it must have to do with the transient nature of the area- I bet
> > a lot of the high schoolers here go elsewhere for college, and we all
> > know how many transplants there are here.
> >
> > Bendy [on preview, what Bran just posted too...]
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