AW: Looping venue help

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

> >> plays for a living. You could take it even further and say 
> that when 
> >> you play for fee, but don't really need the money, you are 
> doing that 
> >> same. It all depends on your political and
> >
> > This is a very dangerous line of argument. It's called 
> communism and 
> > socialism, and leads to dictatorship, torture, mass murder, 
> economic 
> > breakdown and in the final outcome, to a world where there isn't a 
> > place for your crazy stuff (nor for your well-paying day job).
> 
> What's wrong with those things? Just kidding. :)  Yes, I 
> wasn't advocating the viewpoint, just calling it out as a 
> possible line of thought.  I hope freedom of thought and 
> expression is acceptable on the list. There are many flavors 
> of fascism...intellectual being one of them. A line of 
> argument and idea is one thing (sacred, imo) and should be 
> allowed to stand. Action is quite another animal.

Sorry Krispen, I did not want to challenge your right to hold and express 
your own free thoughts. I found that any ways of limiting the individual's 
right for self-expression (economically, artistically or regarding 
beliefs) and a steering or economic bias in these matters lead to 
desastrous results, either because the people responsible for it fail to 
think it through properly, or (and that's a mathematical OR) the people 
electing them fail to do so.

Was Karl Marx responsible for Stalin's mass murder? His beliefs logically 
led to a mighty government which was not democratically elected (as 
democracy, if it would work, would carry out the wishes of the majority, 
which, in a worst-case scenario, would be something against almost half of 
the population, so a democratic government would not represent the 
interests of all citizens), which in turn lead to Stalin and Mao.


On a completely different subject, one of the things mentioned in this big 
discussion was the decline of performance possibilities for musicians. 
This, however, is just contrary to what I experience (in the small world 
around me) in the last few years. (the following is a collection of 
experiences and observations with no statistically undermined point!)
While this may or may not have to do with the internet piracy issue, I get 
the impression that people go to live concerts more. Prices for tickets 
for big acts  have increased massively in the last few years. If you set 
the ticket price for a Meat Loaf concert a friend visited of €70 in 
relation to Miles Davis' last tour (for which I paid DM50, roughly €25), 
or one of Dizzy Gillespie's last tours (€13), this becomes rather 
obvious.

But for those lower-budget acts, concert possibilities are increasing. As 
people increasingly visit live concerts, they also seem to want more of 
that at typical party occasions. In the club scene (if it's in the "motto" 
realm, like metal parties), it has become usual to have one or two live 
acts, mostly regional ones, but I've also been to low-budget metal parties 
with acts from Mexico.

Another thing: all the time of my life when I've been to corporate parties 
before (not that I go to those many), up to 2006 there has always been a 
DJ. I've been to two such events in 2007, and both had a live act...of 
course those were typical party cover acts, but I believe it's a start!
(And btw, I have great respect for those genre#-crossing cover acts, which 
at the request of a long-haired guy in cuttails in the audience can 
spontaneously move from Weather Girls to AC/DC).

        Rainer