[Dixielandjazz] Foreign bands

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Familiarity often builds contempt, and over exposure makes folks want 
to see things from afar to see if they are missing something, and in 
some places they local bands actually do suck pretty bad so a band from 
a far away place is considered to be a breath of fresh air.

Some of the those band in OKOm however fool the local folks once again 
by hiring local guys  to play with them ooops !!   so the sound is 
really not much different than what they get normally anyway.   Same 
old band with a couple of different out of town players playing the 
same old songs  in the same old keys.   And we wonder why OKOM is 
losing it's audience,  well guys and gals you can fool some of the 
folks some of the time but ya  can't fool all of the folks all of the 
time they do wise up and will dump your show quickly when they notice 
this happening.  Just a word to the WISE AGAIN AND HOPE IT does not 
fall totally upon deaf ears. :))


Local bands need to constantly upgrade their repertoire and shows to 
not be so predictable as to what they are going to play and sound like 
every time they come out with those tired old charts.   The only folks 
who really get off on that are the ones who believe that you must have 
oatmeal and bran muffins every morning of your life to be regular.   
Boring Boring.


Cheers,

Tom Wiggins




-----Original Message-----
From: larrys.bands at charter.net
To: jim at kashprod.com; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Foreign bands

   Jim Said: Spaniards curiously believe everything "homegrown" is less 
 valuable/important/good as something from out of the country. 
 
  We must have an awful lot of Spaniards here because I have seen that 
happen for years. For some reason people think that bands from out of 
town are better than the home grown ones. Sometimes that is true. I'm 
not talking about the super star groups but the working bands. My bands 
or groups that I have played in have been imported when I knew that a 
very good band was in town and available. By the same token I have been 
passed over for bands from out of town who weren't as good especially 
when I was in college. 
 
  I don't think this is as much of a problem in a large city with a lot 
of bands but the smaller towns do it all the time. A couple of years 
ago I traveled with the band to a town about 100 miles from here and 
the people paid a premium not only for the time but for the travel 
which doubled the price. Since it is a college town I would bet there 
were several good bands made up of college students and several local 
bands all of which I imagine were pretty good. 
 
  I haven't a clue as to why they do it. As they say "The grass is 
always greener on the other side of the fence." 
 Larry 
 St. Louis 
 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com> 
 To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com> 
 Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:12 AM 
 Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Foreign bands 
 
 > 
 > Tom Wiggins wrote: 
 >>who has played in Catalunya ,, and as Jim Kash says it is indeed 
 > a different Country than Madrid or even Barcelona. 
 > 
  > Actually, Tom, Catalunya is the region in which Barcelona sits. Call 
it a 
 > province, if you like. 
 > 
  >>I managed to sandwich them in between two much more economically 
generous 
 > festivals and with their blessing to do so is how we did it. 
 > 
 > That is what most of the foreign bands do...they travel a circuit of 
  > festivals through Europe, so their prices may just be on an even 
keel, or 
 > even less, than we would charge. 
 > 
  > Something no one would understand, if they haven't lived here as 
long as I 
  > have, is that Spaniards curiously believe everything "homegrown" is 
less 
  > valuable/important/good as something from out of the country. And, > 
festival 
  > people are aware that we can be heard at the local club down the 
street, > so 
 > why pay us big bucks to do their concert. 
 > 
  > We play local clubs (a lot!), and travel throughout the country for 
> concerts 
  > (normally sponsored by the local City Hall). I get to most of my 
gigs > with 
  > a 10 minute drive! Back home by 2 or 3am, and ready for work the 
next 
  > morning at 9am. (I run my own prof. audio business, and am quite 
busy.) 
 > Festivals don't form a part of our scene. 
 > 
 > Jim 
 > 
 > 
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