[atlantaprog] Re: Here's our chance...!

Sadly, I won't be able to make the ARIA meeting
(working)...  :-(

However, just a short comment on what Matthew has
brought to the proverbial table:  

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

The monthly "prog night" gig is practically being
handed to us on a silver platter!  And a nice, clean
venue in Butthead, I mean Buckhead, no less!  :-P

I don't know about the rest of you, but I think we
should be all over this one like white on rice, like
ugly on an ape, like flies on...well, you get the
idea, I think!  ;-)

I will pay my five bucks and be there in October!  :-)

Cheers,

Bill


--- Matthew Trautwein <absolute_music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hey everybody!!!
> 
>        This is Matthew from Karma Lingo with a
> late-breaking opportunity 
> for all of us!  KL has been so busy doing everything
> else <but> Karma 
> Lingo in the last year or so,  that this summer has
> found us in the same 
> situation that many of the ARIA bands seem to be in
> at the moment:  we 
> can't <buy> a gig in Atlanta by hook or by crook!
>        Less than a month since KL was told by CJ's
> Landing that they 
> couldn't afford to book us because our draw wasn't
> big enough,  Curtis 
> sent out an email over the weekend trying to drum up
> some support for a 
> heavy metal karaoke night he's trying to get going
> on Mondays (sounds 
> like fun,  actually!).   In it he asked for some
> other ideas for his 
> Monday nights at CJ's,  so I wrote him back and
> pitched the monthly prog 
> night idea that we've all been talking about for
> awhile.  He emailed me 
> within an hour to say that he was interested...
>       I called him today,  and we had a good long
> about it.  While he's 
> got a few conditions and is going to pretty much
> leave it to us to run 
> and promote the event,  he likes the idea and he's
> going to give us a 
> monthly <Thursday> if we can make it fly.
>       The test case will be 10/23,  and while I'm
> still waiting to hear 
> back from everyone in KL,  the line up would be
> Karma Lingo and Paine's 
> Promise for this first one (I talked to Veronica
> today,  too,  and 
> they're totally in).  
>       If the show turns out to be a success,  I'd
> like to act as the 
> ongoing organizer for this event, even on the nights
> when Karma Lingo's 
> not playing.  We <all> need this gig,  and the only
> way we'll get it and 
> keep it is if we all commit to coming out once a
> month to support each 
> other.
>       Here's how it will work:  Thursdays are no
> longer a regular "band 
> night" for CJ's these days (weekends only, 
> apparently),  so Curtis will 
> run sound and supply a bartender for the back room
> for a guarantee of 
> $100.  We supply someone to run the door (between
> the sound desk and the 
> bar,  I think),  and we charge a $5 cover and handle
> all of the guest 
> list/freebies issues.  If we get 20 paying customers
> and cover his 
> costs,  we get the gig;  if we don't,  we still pay
> him $100,  and we 
> don't get the gig;  pretty simple.  Any money we get
> beyond the first 
> $100 we split between the two bands (and he wants to
> keep it to always 
> being two bands).
>      He's into the idea of making it an early night
> (as are some of the 
> ARIA folks,  I think),  so we're going to keep it to
> hour-long sets with 
> the first band going on at 8:00 and the second band
> going on at 9:30. 
>  That will give the second band a full half hour to
> set up (same as 
> Roguefest),  and we'll all still be out of there by
> 11:00 PM or midnight.
>      I think we can make this happen,  but it only
> <will>  happen if we 
> all make the commitment (and stick to it!) of
> getting out of the house 
> once a month and coming down to see the show, 
> <especially> on the 
> nights when our group isn't playing.   I know I've
> not been the best 
> about getting to all the ARIA meetings,  myself, 
> but this is an 
> opportunity for all of us,  and if it works over the
> long term,  it'll 
> mean a regular gig for each band every three for
> four months that we can 
> all plan for and count on.  
>      As I said above,  I'd like to be the ongoing
> organizer for the 
> event,  and assuming that we get past the first one,
>  I plan on being 
> there for every single show.  Hell,  I'll run the
> door...
>      If we can get this thing rolling,  I'd like to
> set up a regular 
> rotation of bands,  so if this is a commitment that
> you think your band 
> can make,  please drop me a line and I'll slot you
> in.  The key to the 
> whole deal is that we make this an event that we all
> go to every month, 
>  so let me know your thoughts...
>      I'll be at the ARIA meeting for a little while
> tomorrow,  but I'm 
> going to have to take off after a little while, 
> hence this long email! 
>  I'm actually going to write up the details for this
> situation so that 
> the folks who come to Manny's tomorrow night will
> have some hard copy to 
> take away with them,  so please come out and let's
> get some dialogue 
> happening!  If we can make the event fly,  there'll
> be a lot of 
> potential and a lot of possibilities,  for
> ourselves,  and for 
> regional/national/otherwise touring bands as well.  
>      But we gotta get ourselves on the map first; 
> go team!
>      
> See you all tomorrow!
> 
> Matthew Trautwein
> Absolute Music
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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