RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

NGASAMA, baby.  

Bottom line.  The kids are out there, they always have
been, and it's incredibly hard to get most of them out
to a show.  You have to convince them in herds.  The
internet helps, but it also hurts because local is
relative.  Online, local has nothing to do with
geography.  But I digress.

As far as me, no matter whether you're the cradle, the
506, wetlands, reservoir, whoever, you can only
squeeze X number of events out of me.  Seem's like we
just need more we's.  UNC, I'm looking in your
direction!



--- Nathaniel Florin <npflorin AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> I remember going to endless local nights at Club
> Zen/The Club in the very early 90s at which, despite
> $1 admission and $1 longnecks, the audience would
> consist of me, my roommate, Franz, two friends of
> the
> band, and the Christina Applegate mural on the wall.
> Certain bands filled the place, but most didn't at
> all. In this period I also saw local shows at the
> Cradle, the Hardback, Under the Street, and the
> Fallout Shelter with a total paying attendance of
> under five. Again, certain bands would draw more,
> but
> not many of them.
> 
> There was, I think, a significant uptick after this,
> for whatever reason. But I wonder what the baseline
> we
> should be comparing things to is. 
> 
> FWIW, all I hear off away in the far reaches where I
> now dwell is that nobody goes to shows anymore.
> 
> Nate
> 
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
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> 


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