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[QUOTE="the_taste_of_cigarettes:113850"]Getting more touring bands, to do the kind of shows you do, Joe, is a great idea. I agree, there is a lot of local bands that get brought into the mix more than some great (really great, actually) metal and sub-genre-metal from DC and MD (have you heard Swarm of the Lotus? Holy shit) that should get a glimpse up here. I also, admittedly, really like the idea of having an opportunity for more people to come to shows that happen...that for RI kids the luxury of seeing an MA band with their friends band will entice them to come out, and vice versa for the MA kids. That I can dig. And of COURSE, as anyone can gauge from past posts, I'm all for a new All Ages venue, especially one more accessible to me and what I try to do. The All Ages scene in boston dried up, and the future looks somewhat pale in that it'll probably be just more HOSS like environments opening up. I love basement shows, but to play them, sometimes you gotta get in "good" with the people who live there, which often makes the whole relationship somewhat meaningless. I'm a shit at making meaningless relationships, I can't put my heart in them so they breakdown faster than dry ice. And yeah, you make a good point that the shows are only as diversified as the promoter. That you can't book every band every time and if you don't know about a band, or aren't currently thinking of a band (or the band snorts pills, openly, in the emergency exit lane after getting hammered since 9am, and the manager of the club gets mad and smashes a picture frame, with glass, over the guys head - true story! actually happened to a band we played with.) that you're far less inclined to work with them. My main concern is, which was diccussed in round table on another thread, that there can only be so many shows at so many places at the same time. This causes for intereference and eventual competition. The people that have the most fanfare, connections (as far as access to a crowd or performers), and experience are the most favored to get the draw for the evening. But, unbiasedly and looking from a perch, this also poses a good point that those who have those credentials will be the big fish in the little pond -- that it's going to be that much harder for johnny no-names new band to get a few people to see them, good or bad. That also means if there's one club that's all ages, cheap, and has promoters that know their jive, that that club will basically be the club with the 'power' so to speak. That will be the place that the other shows will feel somewhat subserviant too. Now this isn't to say that's what a club of that depiction is trying to do, but it is to say that this is the most plausible outcome. I think that if more kids are dedicated to trying to do their own thing, and be fair to the new club, that there can be a mutually beneficial outcome (more draw to certain shows, more out of state bands applaud the 'scene' and want to come play the area, more networking can be done) which can do wonders for even the little guy booking a VFW show with 15 bands. But that can also mean the little guy who books the VFW show is often going to lose to the new place like small businesses lose to Wal-Mart because, well, they just can't keep up with the prices or availability, ya know? thoughts?[/QUOTE]
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