[Dixielandjazz] Schwoody Schmaallem

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Let me try and interject a bit of sense in to this mess folks:  I have 
witnessed Woody Live "Once"  enough said, and that of course is simply 
my personal opinion, and no I won't buy a ticket to see him in Sonoma, 
nor would I buy one to see him in Lafayette across the street from my 
house.   I would have a jam session and hear better music as far as I 
personally would be concerned.   Would I play on a show with him, or do 
I consider my show too superior to his ?  Yes, and Yes , why because he 
will draw a different audience than I can and I would be happy to put 
on a show to kick his ass musically and gain some new fans of his for 
my show.   Then of course I could Market my show touting that we had 
also played with Woody Allen who some folks consider to be an OKOM 
Star.   There are folks out there who are impressed with such trivia 
and will pay better according to who you have played with.   Learn how 
to market that and you too can make better money.

Woody Allen is being booked on major events and in major venues because 
he is a Celebrity and has proven Box office ticket sales, plain and 
simple, and the promoters who book him could care less what the Hell he 
sounds like or looks like.  He attracts people who pay to SEE him up 
close and personal.   If he gets one note out of a hundred correct 
nobody is counting except the CPA in the ticket booth and he will be 
long gone with the money before Woody hits his second song so there 
will be NO REFUNDS.

Funny thing but everybody on this list has heard of Wood Allen but you 
can bet there are lots of folks on hear who never heard of any of the 
ret of us, good bad or indifferent.   Brings it all back to the most 
important element in all of it guys:  MARKETING.

So you have some talent, some of us very good, some of us pretty good, 
and some Suck big time, but NOBODY knows and nobody really cares unless 
you get out and market it and get real exposure to mass audiences.   If 
more of the better players who we always tout as our heros on this list 
did that THEY would be working on those festivals and bigger higher 
paid venues like Woody What's His Name.

To often musos like to sit back and blame their lack of real monetary 
and popularity success on all those around them and at lesser skilled 
players who do the marketing  correctly and treat this business like a 
Business, and therefore reap the benefits.

I simply say this If all ya'll can do that Get off your duffs and GO Do 
It, if not don't begrudge those who do, trust me they are laughing all 
the way to the bank while some of ya'll chose to be starving Artiste'.  
  I learned a long time ago that you get out of this life what you put 
into it.   we only get to go thru it once, but once is enough if you do 
it correctly.  :))

There are definite economical reasons why so many Rock acts and Blues 
acts are playing on Jazz Festivals, like it or not !


THEY SELL TICKETS, Why Because People Like them and will pay to SEE and 
Hear them Entertain. Nobody owes any of us a living just because we 
have a little or a lot of talent.   Having a Great talent is worthless 
if you don't know how to use it other than for your own selfish 
amusement.   Why do you suppose there is SOOOOOOO much undiscovered 
Talent out there in the big Old World ???


Musical content:   "This little Light of mine I'm gonna let it shine"

If it burns out , change the damned batteries and turn it on again :))

Do I like Woody Schmoody ? or Kenny G ?  nope but they did it their 
way, and it obviously worked a lot better than how most on this great 
list  choose do it.   You make your bed you lie in it, lumps and all.   
Do it like Frank Sinatra did it HIS WAY,  but for crying out loud  Just 
more of you Get off your Butts and GO DO IT.    That's how you educate 
the public and spread the music.   We all know that of course just so 
few of us will make the real effort needed to go out and DO IT.

If every band leader on this list would do that we would not be sitting 
around here on this list bitchin' about no decent work and no audience 
for OKOM.  There are audiences all over the world for it, but they are 
NOT GOING TO TRAVEL TO BUM SCREW Retirement community to find it.


Cheers,

Tom Wiggins


-----Original Message-----
From: sharp-b at clearwire.net
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 7:40 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Schwoody Schmaallem

   Woody, Schmoody - - why in the world are we spending so much time on
one guy who's playing one little concert in Sonoma?  If we really
wanted to support OKOM, we on the West coast would be spreading the
news about where guys like Bob Schulz, Clint Baker, et. al., ad
infinitum and all the other great players with very good tone are
performing, at probably very reduced prices, compared to an Allen
performance. Thank God talk is cheap, (including mine) because if we
had to actually put this stuff in ink, no editor would allow such
repetitive ramblings.  Do you like the tone of this article? I can
hardly wait for the 200 responses after he actually performs, and we
can continue squeaking and squawking about whether W. Alllen actually
squeaked or squawked.   In this, my personal ramblings, am I squeaking,
or squawking?






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