RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

I didn't think I had any expectations at all.  Maybe a
reply.  That was it.

--- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:

> Did you really expect the DTH to leap up & take
> notice? "Flash! -- Local 
> Band to Perform at Local 506!"
> 
> Please tell me you didn't send an email encouraging
> them to check out 
> your www.myspace.com/engarde webpage again. Hasn't
> that chick gotten 
> enough play already?
> 
> I mean, I have lately taken to checking out as many
> local bands' Myspace 
> pages as I can find, and downloading (whenever
> possible -- c'mon y'all, 
> I don't know exactly how it works, but if it's up to
> you, enable the 
> freaking "download" option on your Myspace mp3s --
> you're not going to 
> lose a sale of your precious 4-tracked demo) mp3s to
> play on the radio, 
> but I'm willing to bet that most folks aren't
> necessarily willing to go 
> to the trouble, even those who're ostensibly
> responsible for doing that 
> sort of thing. Other than Grayson, I mean; I'm
> convinced that cat has 
> taken to hanging around outside various
> practice-spaces, so eager is he 
> to hear the latest from every-fucking-band in town.
> But he is clearly in 
> the minority.
> 
> I could provide you a fairly long list of local
> bands whose CDs we've 
> never even received at WXDU. What's the matter,
> y'all, afraid of blowing 
> up BIG in northwestern Durham and the unincorporated
> portions of 
> northern Durham & Orange counties?
> 
> I don't know that it's time for me to resend my
> primer on how to send 
> your CD to radio (DO: send a full-size jewel box,
> with something 
> resembling cover art. bonus points for marking
> tracks with dirty words. 
> DON'T: bother with the highschool portfolio-folder
> with the B&W glossy & 
> your manager's business card stuck in the little
> slits). I also don't 
> know if anybody listens to radio. Actually, scratch
> that: the guys who 
> built my house, honest-to-god Chatham County
> construction workers, did 
> the entire thing while flipping back and forth
> between XDU & XYC as the 
> mood struck them. And no, I had nothing to do with
> it.
> 
> Of course, they don't go to a lot of rockshows. Hmm.
> 
> Ross
> 
> James Hepler wrote:
> > Maybe the marketplace is cluttered, but I don't
> buy
> > it.  I mean, that's probably why WXYC was so
> behind
> > the curve on new releases.  But I don't buy it for
> the
> > other guys.
> > 
> > --- Glenn Boothe / Local 506
> <gboothe2 AT earthlink.net>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> Sorry, should have merged these last two
> responses:
> >>
> >>>>> So before the En Garde/Criteria show, I
> emailed
> >> the
> >> DTH about either writing a blurb about the
> show...I
> >> never
> >> got a response.... Business, laziness, apathy,
> >> scorn, who knows?  It's
> >> not
> >> ignorance.
> >>
> >> Although I have been disappointed at times with
> the
> >> various student
> >> media infrastructure (radio and press) in this
> area,
> >> having been a
> >> college music director myself, one thing to keep
> in
> >> mind is just the
> >> amount of stuff that is out now.
> >>
> >> I can really only speak about radio, but back
> during
> >> my heyday, there
> >> were only a handful of local releases per year
> and
> >> most releases were
> >> met with great fanfare by the station, the press,
> >> the stores and the
> >> clubs.  That number comes out monthly now.  
> Heck,I
> >> can't even do all
> >> the CD release shows that come my way (and those
> are
> >> usually the bigger
> >> shows!)
> >>
> >> For example, I just noticed on the wxyc playlist
> >> that was just posted
> >> that they are now playing The Strugglers and
> Physics
> >> of Meanings.  Both
> >> of those bands had their CD release shows at 506,
> >> one in late October,
> >> the other early November...and it appears that
> the
> >> station is just now
> >> getting around to playing them.  Disappointing
> yes,
> >> but at least they
> >> didn't get entirely overlooked.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I don't think it's ignorance or any of
> the
> >> other attributes you
> >> describe, but just the fact that the marketplace
> is
> >> cluttered...glenn
> >>
> >> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
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> >>
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> >>
> > 
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