Beth and Veronica are the queens of the earth. At least for the next hour or so, then Sarah Michelle gets the tiara back. Here at Solution Science Systems, we're hell-bent on worming our way into Jake's Toadhouse even now. As we speak, our nanomanipulators are embedded, undetectable and irresistable, deep inside the brain of Jeff Dunham..... pulsing, pulsing their singular message: KILL ME. Whoa, that kind of took a wierd left turn into "Johnny Got His Gun". Anyway -- seriously, the idea of doing some kind of "group presentation" intrigues me. I wonder should something like that come from, like, a management company or something? We could also/instead get all Splinter Cell on they azzz, and attack as a group but without advertising it. E.g. "Hey, where are all these Prog band press kits coming from? If there's that many, shouldn't we book some?" And we let it look like the scene is approaching critical mass by means of subterfuge. And perhaps even some strategery. They'll never find our WMD. Again, just throwing the idea out there. I do think that, in any case, we should all individually target our gig intentions (such as they are) on the three joints so named: Jake's, Brandyhouse, Smith's. Let us horribly pervert the Atlanta jam-band scene into our own twisted playground of non-hippie-dance-compatible rhythms! >From: "Beth Folland" <gaprincess@xxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: <atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [atlantaprog] Re: making it happen: talk or action? >Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:17:46 -0400 > >"how about someone collecting everyone's >kits and presenting them together? Who will do any/all of this, etc" >I for one would LOVE to try this....I'd be glad to make it my mission in >life right now! I've already started an email and a list...and yes >Veronica, Brandyhouse AND Smith's are both on it. :-) > >I say LET'S MOVE OUT MEN (and progbabes also);)lol oh my...Alex (z-bop) >is rubbing off on me;)lol > >I really want this to happen! I'm in.... > > >PEACE >Beth > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Veronica Hughes > To: atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:01 AM > Subject: [atlantaprog] making it happen: talk or action? > > > I'd like to find a monthly venue as much as the next band. Believe me, >I'm > really sick of being mostly ignored by the regular venues and having to > compete with the all the endless bands in Atlanta that all sound just >like > Hoobastank. We're a rock band and we have to have a rock venue. We >just > don't "qualify" as being the hottest thing in town, even though we work > hard for our shows like everyone else, (sometimes harder from what I've > seen) and yes, people even like us. That can be said for all of you >guys > too, so basically we're all in the exact same boat. I'd like to know if > there's a plan of action to find a venue that will have us once a month? > Can we start a discussion about the possibilities? Like, we already >agree > on contacting a venue about this, but have we talked about who, when, >and > how? Maybe there's a good way to do this. Maybe we might need a > "collective promo package" to pitch to Jakes and others, as a means to >get > ourselves promoted together with a "theme?" Has anyone considered the > Brandy House? How about Smith's? They have theme nights sometimes. >If > we don't have a collective package, how about someone collecting >everyone's > kits and presenting them together? Who will do any/all of this, etc.? > Let's swap war stories about good and bad venues and good and bad >booking > agents to help figure out a better approach, and what venues to just >avoid. > It's just like being self employed. You have to go after business, >it's > probably not just going to come to you, and you can't give up after a >few > failures. I'll be the first to admit Atlanta totally sucks for it's >live > music. Every other city I have ever been to has much more appreciation >for > live music than this town for some god-forsaken reason (can you identify > with the frustration here?) but here we all are, and we banded together >for > a reason: self promotion, did we not? Let's talk about plans of action. > > > At 03:31 PM 07/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >I still think we need to find a venue that would let prog/art rock >bands > play once a week...that could start the ball rolling...I know I as a > booking and promoting agent sure wish that Atlanta was more open about > their booking and paid the bands more. I think it sucks that venues are > afraid to let bands like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and others of > "different" styles play! Its just sad. I think if we all work together >we > could get something going like NEWears (I do believe that Allen brought > this up recently)....I'd love to see this happen in the Atlanta area! >Wade > and Matthew have started it for us and Allen is ready and willing to get > things moving...we all just have to pitch in! :-) > >Thanks! > > > >PEACE > >Beth > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail