RTP-area local music and culture

[Jeremy Blair <jerblar AT gmail.com>]

We need a compilation CD of local bands to hand out at the bars during
enrollment or other grab-bag type events. You could get to the target
audience where they are, at the bars. Anyone have a spare $20k laying around
to sponsor this?

On 1/30/06, Katherine Carpenter <wwkd AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Actually most folks agree that the issue that made the powers that be
> support Fetzer in '93 was not the scheduling czar, but the public
> financing
> of practice space rent. Wayne even agrees on that one.
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
> Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: Tuesday Indie Rock at the Library and bigger issues
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:55:39 -0500
>
> Can't we all just get along?
>
> Back when Wayne Taylor was running for Raleigh Mayor, one of his
> platform planks was the appointment of a rockshow scheduling czar who'd
> make sure we'd never have to pick between 2 great shows on the same
> night again. Needless to say, the vested Raleigh political interests
> couldn't afford to let that happen, and they went so far as to throw the
> election to Tom Fetzer as punishment for Wayne even bringing it up.
>
> Remember when we used to joke on this very list about the indie-rock
> cabal? Hoo boy, that really brings back some memories. Good times.
>
> Oops, shit, gotta run, I'm late for the *real* indie-rock board meeting,
> the one Calloway's pissed that we never tell him the location of.
>
> xo
>
> Ross
>
> Katherine Carpenter wrote:
> > Actually, there's already such a 'Board' that has been meeting, at 7:30
> a.m.
> > the second and fourth Saturdays of every month, in the Durham public
> > library. Please feel free to come on out!
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: Sarah Freeman <sfree18 AT gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Subject: Re: Tuesday Indie Rock at the Library and bigger issues
> > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:59:27 -0500
> >
> > maybe this sounds completely lame and would just hit a dead end, but
> > what about some board/group made up of club owners (both durham and
> > chapel hill), musicians, and duke and unc students, whose purpose
> > would be to take a good look at the situation and see what can be done
> > to improve it (if anything). something big enough to have a decent
> > supply of ideas and brainpower, but small enough to cut out
> > bureaucratic nonsense and worthless sidetracking on trivial issues.
> > it seems like there is a lack of communication between the students
> > and the local music scene... is there any interest out there for
> > something like this? s
> >
> >
> > On 1/30/06, James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  > 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
> >  > > >>
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> >  > > >>
> >  > > >
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