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  • From: Jeremy Blair <jerblar AT gmail.com>
  • 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 20:25:22 -0500

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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