RTP-area local music and culture

["Gary Miller" <gmiller.nc AT gmail.com>]

Grady wrote:   "Add all that together, and you're left with
incontrovertible evidence
that the opening band needs to SUCK IT UP ALREADY and get onstage and
play at the appointed time."

Preach on, brother.  Preach on.

I'd go even more extreme to say that clubs also need to keep a cattle
prod on hand, and if the band isn't on at the prescribed times... zap
'em.  I don't care of the singer is in the bathroom, or if the drummer
went outside to call her boyfriend.  Zap 'em.

I've spent way too much of my life sitting around rock clubs waiting
for the first band to go on.  And as an introvert, that's pretty
uncomfortable time, generally speaking.   Dreading the thought of
paying to sit around and wait for the band to start has actually kept
me home on many occasions.

Gary