Re: jealous of bay area gigs

["samba -" <sambacomet@hotmail.com>]

With all due respect ,there are many more than two kinds of places to 
play, 
many of which do pay but aren't in it for the money.There are all kinds of 
possible places to sponsor gigs that aren't food or drink businesses. 
Personally,I've played on the street, in subway stations, in 
churches,schools, hotels,on boats , on the dock,in the woods,on the beach 
, 
at political events and, demonstrations, at all sorts of fundraisers,  in 
parking lots, at festivals,at retreat centers, at swimming pools at yoga 
centers,  at healing rituals,at a firewalk ceremony,at all sorts of 
weddings,a great variety of parties,in ballrooms,concert halls, theaters, 
,in parades,at TV stations,at radio stations, for conventions,for 
classes,and workshops, for awards cermonies, for dance performances,for 
plays ,accompanying a slide show to promote environmental awareness, 
improvising along with an animated film,in Art museums,and at art 
openings,at farmer's markets,and flea markets,community centers, at 
Christmass fairs, Street Fairs, First Night celebrations, at 
picnics,fitness 
centers,libraries,in public parks ,at city hall ,at an opening ceremony 
for 
a new building,4th of july,and oh yes coffeeshops, bars,in shopping malls 
and restaurants In many cases one is neither foreground or background,or 
both ,or each at different points in the process.
  There used to be this brilliant band in Eugene Ore. called 
Onamatopoeia,they would put up flyers saying they were appearing at the 
goodwill parking lot at midnight-and they would play and there would be 
like 
50 people there.Once they played in the safeway produce section at 3 am 
they 
even plugged stuff in-took over a half hour to get thrown out. I went to 
one 
of their gigs in a big empty gallery ,and they were behind these big white 
sheets,all you could see were sillouettes.
   I think  they made $500. passing the hat playing in the parking lot 
during a grateful dead show
  reminds me of the story of the Violent Femmes  playing on the street 
outside a Pretenders concert,being almost completely ignored,but someone 
from the band heard them ,thought they were great,hired 'em to open so 
there 
they were onstage when the doors opened,they got a record deal out if it 
too.