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Good move! Where in Brooklyn?! On 3/9/06, Clint Allen <clint.allen@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can't promise to do much, but hopefully I will be able to add a few > individuals at these shows (myself included) in the next few months as I >and > two of my collaborators/friends relocate to the Brooklyn area... > > Clint Allen > > > > On 3/9/06, Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com> wrote: > > That's "towel" not "trowel"! :-D > > > > Yes, the weather was against us. But I've been doing this for a long > > time. I run a fairly popular events mailing list here too that I use > > to advertise this stuff. In previous times, I've done things like > > getting ads in newspapers and handing out lots and lots of fliers. > > And yet I'd be really, really surprised if I had a show and a dozen > > people showed up. > > > > Considering the amount of gear I take out and the time and money it > > takes me to get out, there's a level of patheticness that I can't > > really stomach here. > > > > > > People just aren't so interested in going out and listening to music > > any more. If you have thousands of tracks from all the world's > > musicians on a little box the size of a cigarette package, there > > really isn't much incentive to go out and just listen. Sure, going > > out for a *show*, or to dance... logical. But not to listen. > > > > Older people are more listeners -- but a lot of them aren't interested > > in weird music any more. And they don't seem to come out. > > > > Younger people want either a spectacle or dance music and I can't > > provide that. And I'm not *such* an amazing musician that they'll > > just show up to admire my chops (and really, when does that happen > > nowadays?) > > > > /t > > > > > > On 3/8/06, Dan Ash <Daniel.Ash@verizon.net> wrote: > > > Tom, > > > > > > That's too bad. > > > > > > Wasn't there a snowstorm the night of the last loop event in >Brooklyn? > > > That might have been a factor. > > > > > > Hope you're not really throwing in the trowel. > > > > > > Dan Ash > > > White Plains, NY > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > /t > > > > http://ax.to ... extreme NY arts and music calendar > > > > > > -- /t http://ax.to ... extreme NY arts and music calendar