[Dixielandjazz] A band, Texas-style

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi David:

Of course self subsidized music happens elsewhere !!   it happens all 
over the world  when bands anywhere are plying for free or less money 
than the expenses needed to pay for their getting to and from a gig.   
This is also not unique to OKOm music, it is running rampant in the 
Rock music scene on almost any given night the clubs that they play 
have five or six bands on the bill playing for free or "The DOOR"  and 
if they are lucky they take the door off the hinges and take it home 
for firewood.

The of course we have many bands made up of Professionals making a 
great living in other professions that play a little music on the 
weekends for less than reasonable fees for a professional band just 
because they want to play so badly.  Rumor has it hat there is one such 
band in N. California that tours all over the world subsidized by it's 
founder.   There is nothing wrong with that either, if he can afford to 
do it and hire good players wonderful he is actually creating work and 
putting his money where his mouth is so to speak.  I also hear that 
this particular guy is an excellent player himself.

If you run it like a business it has a lot of great tax benefits for a 
person in a high tax bracket to subsidize a band operation.
Somebody has to subsidize any BAND that is going to get off the ground 
and go anywhere, and be marketed, and promoted to higher levels of 
income and success.   Otherwise you simply have some cats who blow a 
little music for fun as sidemen musicians and they will most likely 
remain just that all their lives.   A nice group of sidemen going from 
one smalltime gig to the next.   I also understand that there are lot 
of guys that want to do exactly that and just that.  Tis their choice.  
 Different strokes for different folks as they say out west.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

-----Original Message-----
From: postmaster at fountainsquareramblers.org
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 5:07 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz]  A band, Texas-style

    Pat, a minor correction may be in order here. My last message had 
nothing to
do with continuing any controversy (it¹s over) and I apologize to 
EVERYONE
if it was read that way. I never worked at the University of North 
Texas, in
or out of their jazz program. (That would have been wonderful, if 
true!)  I
worked in Dallas where I saw the enjoyable band I discussed and I am
interested in the band business, as stated in posts several months ago. 
Here
is an instance of someone funding a band out of his own pocket and I 
believe
that to be unique to Texas.  I have never suggested that self-subsidized
music happens anywhere else, nor do I believe that to be true.

David Dustin
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