[Dixielandjazz] Re: Elevator music - Jazz?

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Many of us have played in bands for years and one of the advantages that a 
musician has is that people really aren't listening very much and if you 
make a mistake then so what.  When I started doing Sr.Citizen gigs much to 
my surprise they were listening and at first it unnerved me a little. 
People were actually listening -- what a concept.
Larry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Loomis" <miltloomis at yahoo.com>
To: "Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis" <larrys.bands at charter.net>; 
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Elevator music - Jazz?


>  Larry, I'm here ... Here's my today's example
> of a modern manifestation of Attention Deficit:
> Every year our band has a potluck and music
> mini-fest at which we and our musical friends
> (those who aren't gigging that day) play. This
> year's is our 10th annual. Just this morning I
> and my daughter discovered that because she
> didn't really read the e-mails I sent out in June
> and July, nor really register it when we talked
> about it, she booked a camping trip for her
> family on the Geezerpalooza date and they won't
> be able to attend. She'd assumed it would be in
> September, like always ... big disappointment all
> the way around.
>   I find, by the way, that often people really
> don't read e-mail carefully either ... often miss
> key info because they just can't afford the extra
> 10 seconds it takes to really read one. Not just
> my daughter, but people in our band who either
> don't read e-mail more than once a week or if
> they check it, don't really take in the pertinent
> info. I frequently am asked by one or another
> band member "What time are we playing Saturday?
> When are we supposed to be there?" even though we
> have a private band group on Yahoo where I
> communicate all those things well in advance and
> the day before any gig ...
>   I think it's all because actually there seems
> to be too much info circulating and nobody really
> wants to try to take it all in ... if we lived in
> a tiny Mexican village such as the ones I saw on
> a recent trip, we'd be hungry for contact, gossip
> and any sort of entertainment other than swatting
> mosquitos (I did see a couple of satellite
> antennas on thatched-roof shacks in those
> villages) ... but we live in the age of info
> overkill (and, curiously, underkill all at the
> same time in terms of important details) ... it's
> such a complex subject I think it would take a
> couple of volumes of studies and analysis to try
> to unravel it all. I'm sure the people who really
> run things would like us to stay anesthetized and
> IMHO TV plays a huge role, whether by design or
> by default or both  ... OKOM is our only hope!
> ;^)
>
> Bob Loomis
> Concord CA
>
> --- "Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis"
> <larrys.bands at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> Bob you hit on two points that I found
>> interesting.   (snip)
>
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