RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

I'm surprised you found 45 peopel who didn't laugh at
you and walk away when you shared this idea with them.

Also, Tangeena Barren?

--- trunk <trunkrecords AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> > I guess I will keep thinking about the greed
> angle.  Have you
> > experience in this regard?  What worked for you?
> 
> Heh... actually I do.
> 
> There was this club, club 'a' to protect the guilty,
> where we kept
> getting the cold shoulder from the booking guy. 
> Nothing we tried (all
> five of us tried different things) worked.  Then one
> day we were
> thinking about the issue and decided to try a bit of
> social
> engineering on the club goob.
> 
> Here is what we did.  We took out a half page ad in
> the Independent
> that had a great picture of the band and lots of
> cool looking flashy
> graphics and fonts.  All of it meaningless.  We then
> snagged all the
> copies we could find and cut out the ad.  We then
> mailed (snail mail)
> 45 copies of this advert from 45 different people
> (all legit people)
> and then followed up with a telephone call a week
> later.
> 
> This club goob was salivating to get us in the door.
>  He thought that
> he was gonna make loads of money so he was suddenly
> our best friend.
> He even gave the band a $200 bar tab AND $500 for
> performing.
> 
> This one little lesson should give you all you need
> to break into the
> local scene.
> 
> Just remember:
> Flash over substance - if you are an amazing band
> with exceptional
> musicians, don't mention this fact. Instead, play
> down the level of
> musicianship and instead find lots of adjectives
> which mean nothing
> but average people will think you are cool.
> 
> Nothing means something - The less you say, the more
> people wanna
> know.
> 
> Take every opportunity to impress a club goob with
> your business
> acumen.  Even if you suck at it, make the club goob
> THINK that you
> will make them money.
> 
> It's a cruel world out there so cruel actions are
> needed to survive.
> It's either that or just hold your own parties and
> forget the clique-
> ish club scene.
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> 



      
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