RTP-area local music and culture

[Michael Warren <p_michael_warren AT yahoo.com>]

Hi all.

I'm looking for a musician to round out my band Bottomzup.  We currently have 
guitar, drums, bass, and a (female)vocalist, and everyone sings. We could use 
another guitar, keyboards, horns, other stringed instruments, or maybe even a 
drummer. I currently play the drums but I handle a lot of vocals and used to 
front the band and I do play guitar so that's a possibility. I wiil consider 
anything (except bass guitar) as long as the player has the talent and a good 
attitude. Some vocal ability would be a plus, but is not a requirement.

The band is based in Roxboro and I would like someone fairly close to the 
area or willing to drive a bit to rehearse(about once a week presently). 
We're primarily a cover band though some of us do write songs. The music is 
"classic" rock, country, a bit of beach music and whatever works. Some 
artists whose songs we cover: Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Melissa 
Etheridge, Fleetwood Mac, Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, Hank Williams 
Sr., Exile, Cravin' Melon, Wilson Pickett, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, 
Credence Clearwater Revival, Rodney Crowell, Van Morrison, Temptations, 
Drifters, Jimmy Buffet, Dwight Yokam, Garth Brooks, Emmy Lou Harris, Delbert 
McClinton, Beatles, K.C.and the Sunshine Band, Pat Benatar, Sam Cooke, 
Poison, John Mellancamp, Percy Sledge, Lynard Skynard, Billy Joel, Eagles...

We have gigs booked and expect to be fairly busy in the coming months. Anyone 
who's interested send me an e-mail.

Mike Warren 



MIKE'S  Karaoke/ D.J. 
BOTTOMZUP BAND (336) 503-9585 (336) 504-1626
http://www.geocities.com/p_michael_warren/index.html










                
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_28/b3942030.htm

But consider the case of Marisa Brickman. "When I was younger, I was, 
like, `oh, [expletive] Corporate America. I can't be marketed to,"' says 
the music-obsessed 27-year-old. "I'd rip the tags off my clothes. I 
didn't want people to know what brands I was wearing." Today, Brickman 
is director of event marketing and public relations for Cornerstone 
Promotion in New York.

Cornerstone is a new-school marketing firm with many tentacles, 
virtually all touching on music of the moment and its fans.

[. . .]

Cornerstone and Brickman are very good at "product seeding" among 
tastemakers within its 18-to-34 target audience. It helps that Brickman 
knows practically every DJ and underground rock band within a 1,000-mile 
radius, so Cornerstone's overtures are more palatable "than if some 
brand was just cutting a check," she says.

IT ALSO HELPS THAT BANDS AND AUDIENCES within a formerly contemptuous 
subculture now sing along. Fifteen or 20 years ago, Brickman's job 
couldn't have existed. A once-ubiquitous bumper sticker from a noted 
underground record label bluntly declared: "Corporate Rock Still Sucks." 
Back then, bands that cozied up to advertisers "were often ridiculed and 
hung out to dry," says Gerard Cosloy, co-president of New York-based 
Matador Records. "It's a different world now."

[. . .]

  At last March's South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Brickman 
set up the Levi's-FADERS Trading Post, an invite-only tent with free 
music and free beer for scenesters and swag for a clutch of chosen 
bands. "We booked all the bands and scheduled [them] to get outfitted in 
Levi's," says Brickman.

[. . .]

The Levi's tent -- the third the jeans giant has sponsored -- is a 
notable inroad into a festival initially conceived as an antidote to the 
overt commercialism of other music gatherings. But then, the cultural 
landscape changed. Now, muses an underground rocker who has begun 
accepting sponsorships, "the only qualm I have is I usually don't like 
the stuff I get."

[. . .]

  Marketers, like parents, might spend sleepless nights worrying about 
not understanding youth. But they miss the bigger story. Formerly 
hostile subcultures -- yesteryear's punks and hippies and snowboarders 
-- now welcome them. Whether they've noticed it or not, marketers have 
won. Like Brickman, the hipsters are all buying in.