[Dixielandjazz] Austin TX jazz band article

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

> Play one little gig out of town, and you create press and interest  in 
> your group that you could never garner at home.

This is the grass is always greener syndrome.  I don't know why this 
happens.  I understand it with "name" people because the name sells but when 
the groups are not particularly "name" bands or singers then what's the 
deal.  When I was in college I never, and I emphasize never, played a gig in 
the town where I went to school.  We were a road band on the weekends 
traveling 5 states and drove 150 miles often.  Yet while we weren't the best 
band in town you would have thought that in 4 years we would have done at 
least one or two.  When we went to other cities they loved us.

I still see this today.  There is just a mystique about out of town bands 
which incidentally are usually home town guys filling all but the main 
chairs.

It's not going to change so expect it.
Larry
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Richoux" <tubaman at tubatoast.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Austin TX jazz band article


> >
> This is how Mark wrote to introduce the link to that article (on his 
> blog)
>> The simple truth that few people care to aknowledge is that being a 
>> popular local band has no cache' outside of your own home town's  city 
>> limits. That was never more true for Austin, the Live  Rehearsal Capitol 
>> of the World. Those of us who have travelled  extensively know well that 
>> being from Austin means a lot, but being  in Austin means very, very 
>> little.
>>
>>
>> Play one little gig out of town, and you create press and interest  in 
>> your group that you could never garner at home. The local papers  have 
>> completely ignored Alice Spencer's new group, not even  daigning to 
>> reveiw her wonderful new CD. But go 70 miles south and  be appreciated.
>>
>> A years worth of Thursdays the Hole and Wall = nothing.
>>
>> One Friday night in San Antonio = glowing press.
> So Mark did not call it "antique music" - the author of the piece did.
>
> Dave Richoux
>
>
> On May 9, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Gluetje1 at aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>> I noticed that word also and had the opposite reaction.  Maybe the 
>> ticket is
>> to market "timeless, irreplaceable, invaluable retro sounds vamped for
>> today's sophisticated listeners".  LOL
>> Ginny
>>
>> In a message dated 5/9/2007 7:25:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu writes:
>>
>> Yes.  Good on ya, Dave.  (But "antique music"?   Please.  As
>> someone else said, "Anything that's not busy bein' born  is busy
>> dyin'." [or something like that]  This style of music may  have been
>> born a century ago, but it is in no way dying.)
>> Alice Spencer and Her Monkey Butlers have a CD out that i like a
>> lot, and it's available at:
>> http://cdbaby.com/cd/aspencer
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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