RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

My opinions on this subject are fairly well published
at this point, but one side of this that I hadn't
noticed before is that essentially telling people not
to go to a show puts those bands in bad moods.  I
heard from three different people that one of the
bands were a bunch of jerks that night.  And while
maybe their band sucked, and maybe they're always
assholes, traveling to a town to find the local press
slamming you, well, it doesn't make fior the funnest
evening for anyone.

While we give the indy folks a hard time here about
it, and while they take it well, the people the
writers don't have to worry about being confronted by
are the bands who get dissed.  It's the other
representatives of the music community, the club
owners and the bands who have to bear the brunt of the
frustration they feel.  Fans too.  




--- local506 AT gmail.com wrote:

> It's no secret that I'm not a fan of the Eh,
> Whatever section of the
> Indy.  And one of the reasons is because traveling
> bands don't realize
> this section is meant to single-out an
> over-hyped/rated show each week
> (they assume they got singled out individually)...so
> when Yeasayer
> stumbled on to the review below (god knows, I didn't
> point it out) I
> had to explain to them that our local weekly has
> this shitty section
> that goes out of their way to dis the very bands who
> go out of their
> way to come to this area.
> 
> With that said, wouldn't it have been a lot more
> productive to write a
> paragraph telling the 200 plus show attendees why
> they should get
> their early and see Soft Company than preach this
> so-called critique
> to all the people who have no interest in these
> bands or this show.
> 
> >From this point forward, I will save myself the
> trouble of this
> explanation by disgarding the 506 copies of the Indy
> that include one
> of our shows in this section....glenn
> 
> ps: coindidentally, I am listening to Yeasayer right
> now...by choice!
> I like them.
> 
> >EH, WHATEVER
> 
> 01.17 YEASAYER/ MGMT @ LOCAL 506
> 
> Baltimore/ Brooklyn back-and-forths Yeasayer
> brandish a few dozen
> sounds you may love--gamelan, screeching Neil Young,
> keyboard-float
> Pink Floyd, arena rock monstrosity and so forth--in
> a diluted
> distillation that's at turns ineffective or irksome.
> Sonically,
> Yeasayer isn't far removed from the Technicolor
> melodic phases of TV
> on the Radio or the hard rhythm-versus-smeared sound
> technique of
> Animal Collective, but its apocalyptic images emerge
> from its sonic
> mess without much punch. For bloggers, this may be
> "out music." I'd
> rather stay in. Same for MGMT, New York nothings
> with major-label
> moneys who fall in the same why-does-this-matter
> genus. Chapel Hill's
> Soft Company is the better band on the bill.
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> 



      
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