Topic: Will Ga$ Kill Touring Underground Bands
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bad apple 
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posted: May 11, 2008 11:36:03 AM post heading: Will Ga$ Kill Touring Underground Bands
If gas price remain or exceed the current per gallon could this mean the end of touring underground bands? Are we witnessing the last gasp of an important cultural phenomena? Will bands that would have probably toured spend time reinvigorating their local scenes? Can you imagine how sad it would be if people just got turned on to music through Myspace, blogs, and message boards rather than seeing bands perform live. |
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rev.jc
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posted: May 11, 2008 3:13:41 PM post heading: way out of the loop
Living in youngstown, as you could imagine (but please don't for your own good), I'm a bit out of the loop. Over the past couple of months, this place kind of stopped moving because a lot of people actually can't afford gasoline. Believe me when I tell you I'm not the only person buying gas two gallons at a time. I don't live in LA, New York or Chicago. I don't necessarily know how much people make living there. I do believe, however, that the prices of gasoline, relative to average incomes in these places, are cheaper than here. When was the last time some band from bumfuckegypt, oh came through cowtown? So, to not really answer the question, who knows? I don't think that the BJM really had to worry about it too much, but We March should definitely reconsider driving from san diego to austin without stopping somewhere along the way to try to make gas money. May be that's where this is going. May be now, bands will have to start playing shows in bumfuckegypt, oh just to make the scratch to get the gas to get to chicago for a weekend show. May be bumfuckegypt's soul will be saved by the price of gasoline. Hey touring bands, come play a weekday show in bumfuckegypt, play as many as you want. I can't promise much, but I promise you can make enough money after a few nights -- and working with me at the carwash during the day-- to get you to cleveland for a friday night show at the grog shop or pats or the beachland. All we ask in return is that you take us with you. |
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bad apple
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posted: May 11, 2008 3:53:38 PM post heading: Happy Hour Drink Deals at BumFuckEgypt
Can we open a bar in Youngstown called Bumfuckegypt, John. That would be really great. |
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rev.jc
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posted: May 11, 2008 4:29:56 PM post heading: hello and welcome to the bumfuckegypt bar and grill
I tried doing that too. I'm probably going to stop by the business school tomorrow after work. They have some small business planning thingy that they supposedly do. I don't think anything will come of it, but I was looking into opening something myself. I don't know if you remember the idora ballroom and concessionary idea, but it really was pretty tight. When I looked into buying or leasing a building and then renovating a hundred year old five story building that had been vacant for twenty years -- and this is what I meant about the embellished prospects thing -- the cost went from about $80k to about $600k. Way more than I could raise. I can't even get a straight answer about what happened with nyabinghi. If I coulda got my hands on that place, I pretty much had to name it bumfuckegypt. Wouldn't it be fun to tell people you had o'betty's hot dogs in bumfuckegypt while don ho played on the jukebox? |
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unionbooking
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posted: May 12, 2008 2:37:17 PM post heading: one way...
I think we'll see more bands traveling lighter. Bands will need to tour in smaller, more gas efficient vehicles and the promoters will need to start providing backline. If the venue has the big bulky stuff, (amps, drums) the bands can bring their necessities, Cuts down costs. But yeah, things are going to become much more complicated. |
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bad apple
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posted: May 12, 2008 5:49:49 PM post heading: Community Horse Half Stack
"promoters will need to start providing backline." Yeah, that has always made a lot of sense to me. That's how they often do it in Europe if I'm not mistaken. I think most clubs could throw down on a community horse marshall half stack. |
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rev.jc
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posted: May 12, 2008 7:16:03 PM post heading: roadie on the knives three hour tour
I don't know if anyone here remembers this, but I had (well, I didn't have too, but I did) haul equipment for the knives from athens to morgantown to youngstown because Sonya couldn't fit it all into her camaro, and bobby lane had her van. Steve and charlie tried to talk her into just bringing her bass and borrowing a rig, but she would have nothing of it. In the end, it cost the band quite a bit of extra cash buying gas for my car and food for me and my girlfriend. Honestly, though, I'd rather play through my own amp too. Oh yeah! I know you guys remember peter tork throwing a tantrum because Todd tweeked his own amp that mr tork was borrowing. I between that and my offer to give him a piggy-back ride to the stage is why he got all pissed and started to push me. Good times. |
