RTP-area local music and culture

[Duncan Murrell <duncan AT rattlejar.com>]

My recommendations:

1.  Band members should wash more regularly.
2.  It would be great if more venues were multi-functional hangouts.  
For instance, a place like the dear departed Lizard and Snake. Or a  
cafe that, at 9 or so, pushed aside some tables for some music. (Like  
Open Eye.)  Accidentally running into a great band or soloist because  
you're already at the joint hanging out, having a meal, reading  the  
paper -- I love those kinds of nights. It would require a supply of  
acts able to play a variety of rooms, some quite small, and joint  
owners willing to stay open late.
3.  People should quit getting old, getting married, having kids,  
etc. Stop the madness.

d


On Jan 19, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Nathaniel Florin wrote:

> My impression with the MA smoking ban was that it did
> hurt bars a lot. At least they all said it did, and I
> never seemed to see as many people out after it as I
> did before it, especially on weekdays, and a higher
> than usual number of places went belly-up afterwards.
> Though this didn't seem to apply to places that were
> primarily rock clubs, because people go there for a
> very different reason. It seemed to help bands,
> because one strategy to deal with the loss of the
> go-out-to-smoke crowd was a little boom in the number
> of places that had a show or two every week when they
> had had none before.
>
> After the smoking ban I stopped having constant
> respiratory ailments. It was amazing.
>
> Off-topic: another Boston (and elsewhere) thing that I
> really liked was the idea of residencies, in which a
> band would play someplace one day a week for a month.
> Really the best way to see a band, and a good way to
> make them grow, not being able to play the same stuff
> the same way over and over. It's also great for the
> audience, in that you can watch casually in a way you
> don't when you're just Going To The Show. And it
> allows for a lot more band-audience back and forth. I
> saw that the Cave has done this some, but I didn't see
> any comment on it. Anyway, it's old fashioned and
> civilized and pretty neat.
>
> Nate
>
> --- Bo Williams <bowilliams AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, clubowners in Boston bitched about the
> > non-smoking regulations along
> > similar lines. There was a perceived initial drop in
> > bar revenue (and even
> > that is disputed), but the people I've talked to-
> > yes, this is totally
> > anecdotal and thus mostly worthless, but still...
> > say that attendance at
> > shows is back up and maybe even higher a few years
> > down the road. The long
> > term benefits so outweigh the fearmongering.
>
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