[atlantaprog] Re: Lord Only at the Masquerade, ARIA at CJ's, and more...

Matthew we thank you very much for your support, I also want to thank 
Jeff Blanks for his
continued support. It was nice to see Wheat there also, and anyone I 
might have missed.
It was a blast last night, Nic Turner was great, he came and introduced 
himself to the band
before the show and was a very nice guy.
Thanks again,
Hal

Matthew Trautwein wrote:

>Hey everybody,
>
>I just got home from seeing Lord Only at the Masquerade, and 
>congratulations, guys, on a great set! I thought the band was really on, 
>and the sound was actually pretty good (Karma Lingo has had some really 
>bad experiences there, and the volume later on this evening went through 
>the roof for Nik Turner and Spaceseed!! Ouch!!!).
>I did a rough head count tonight, and I saw 20 people or so in the 
>audience for Lord Only. OK! I think that it might be a fun idea to start 
>keeping track of how many people are coming out for our ARIA shows, and 
>let's see if we can start beating our score each time!
>So, the next ARIA-related show that I know about is Lord Only, Man on 
>Fire, and Paine's Promise at the Library on 10/17. I'm going to be in NC 
>at the Carolina Ren Fest with the Lost Boys that weekend, but for 
>everybody still in town, let's see if we can get ***25*** people to come 
>out to this show! Obviously, nobody wants to limit anything (we'll hope 
>for 200!), but in real numbers, actual fact, let's get 25 people in that 
>room to see these bands.
>To the groups performing: can each of you come up with 8 individuals, 8 
>specific people that you can talk into coming out that night? Wives, 
>husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, and family members count! Just to 
>keep yourselves organized, make an actual physical list of the names of 
>people who say they'll show up, and just keep asking folks to come until 
>you fill it.
>If each of the bands do that, that'll mean we just need one other person 
>from the ARIA list to show up and we've made our numbers; one person! 
>Who's it going to be? Who volunteers to go down? Write to me and let me 
>know who you are!
>In addition, I can't be there, so I need someone to take a tally of the 
>room for me. I really want to know how many people we draw so that we 
>can make a new goal for our first ARIA night at CJ's Landing the 
>following week. Is anybody willing to do that for me? Please let me 
>know! Lets shoot for 25 on 10/17, and we'll go from there!
>
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>
>As far as the Thursday nights at CJ's thing goes, here is the list of 
>bands that have expressed interest in participating so far:
>
>1. Karma Lingo
>2. Paines Promise
>3. Solution Science Systems
>4. Lord Only
>5. Z-Axis
>6. Noise.com
>7. Man on Fire
>
>Anybody else? My plan is to set up a strict rotation,* and we simply go 
>in order, 2 bands a month, from now until the end of time. After you 
>play, your band gets put back in line, and we go again! Easy!
>
>* Some of you have requested to be matched with certain other bands, so 
>we may do a slight adjustment to the list from time to time to make sure 
>we get a good pairing or accommodate a specific request (and we'll try 
>to set that kind of thing up way in advance! The same thing goes for any 
>out of towners that express interest or that any of you would like to 
>invite in). *
>
>The success of these shows will be completely down to us drawing a 
>consistant audience time and time again, so towards that end, I'd like 
>to try right off the bat instituting the following attendence policy for 
>the groups involved.
>It's unrealistic and impractical to expect every member of every band to 
>show up every single time (I certainly hope it happens, but we all know 
>how it goes...), so what I propose is that we require each group to make 
>sure that you have at least <one person> there every single time; just 
>one! It doesn't have to be the same person, but make sure that your band 
>is represented every single time by someone that performs on stage with 
>you. By all means, bring the whole group if you can, but all I'm asking 
>for is one person at each and every show (and if you're a trio versus a 
>six-piece, I'm just going to have to ask you deal, this time; life's not 
>always fair...).
>And if you don't make it? No biggie, we'll just bump you to the bottom 
>of list (and for the sake of justice in the universe, we'll put you back 
>in <after> the groups who's show you missed!). Cut, dried, and simple, 
>and hopefully fair to everyone: the bands that show up the most get to 
>play the most, and if you never show up, you never play, end of story.
>The one exception we'll make is if your group has a gig that night 
>somewhere else. Obviously, the whole point of this deal is to drum up 
>more work for ourselves, so if you can be out there spreading the faith, 
>that's even better than filling a seat! Just let me know ahead of time, 
>and go get 'em!!!
>So there we go! Things look good, guys. Curtis sounds really excited 
>about this, so let's make it happen!!!!
>
>This email has been way too long, but hopefully not too boring. Let me 
>know what you think, and I'll see you all soon!
>
>Take care till then,
>
>Matthew
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