[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 150, Issue 2
Jeffrey Matthews
jeffmatthews111 at aol.com
Thu Jun 4 02:32:18 PDT 2015
Would anyone have the sheet music for James.P. Johnson's tune: Love Bug.
Thank you.
Jeff Matthews
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> 1. Fwd: Dr. Michael White (Marek Boym)
> 2. I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
> (Gary Lawrence Murphy)
> 3. Re: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
> (Ron L'Herault)
> 4. Re: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
> (Robert Ringwald)
> 5. Re: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
> (Marek Boym)
> 6. FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club...
> (Jim Kashishian)
> 7. Re: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
> (Gary Lawrence Murphy)
> 8. Re: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
> (Gary Lawrence Murphy)
> 9. Re: FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club...
> (Gary Lawrence Murphy)
> 10. Re: FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazzclub...
> (Robert Ringwald)
> 11. Re: FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazzclub...
> (Pete Grice)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 22:15:48 +0300
> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
> To: Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Fwd: Dr. Michael White
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> My friend Donna went to Dr. Michael White's masterclass in her home town
> Rosh Ha'Ayin. Here are her impressions:
> ->
> Date: 2 June 2015 at 21:25
> Subject: Dr. Michael White
> To:
>
>
> The master class this evening was great and included demonstrations as well
> as the amazingly successful initiation of a young woman who had only played
> classical music until now into jazz. It was great to hear the beautiful
> sound of Dr. Michael White's clarinet in an intimate setting. He's a
> sensitive and effective communicator and a good teacher, as well as a great
> musician The Rosh Haayin auditorium is very nice.
> I'm looking forward to Thursday's concert and Friday's performance at
> Hudna. Be sure to reserve seats if you're going (I've already sent the
> details). I know some of you can't make it and some have already done so.
> See you soon!
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 08:51:44 -0400
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>
> To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz
> club ...
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> Greetings gang,
>
> well it is official, as if I didn't have already no free time, universal
> forced beyond my control conspired to hurl me into the role of the owner of
> a stage-equipped 80-seat restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario of all places,
> with another 80 seats in a rooftop patio under the stars, all of it right
> in the very heart of the downtown, a stone's throw from the main banking
> corner.
>
> Long story short, last January this place defaulted on their lease-to-buy
> and went up for sale way undervalue, I foolishly posted on facebook to say
> "anyone want to start a jazz club" and received offers to help with the
> business plan from as far afield as Kansas City and the UK, I found a
> musician chef who can do New Orleans cooking, an amazing bartender and
> expert servers who are in there right now painting the place in teals and
> golds and there I was, standing in the doorway of my own club when a
> drive-by photo shooting put me up on facebook! Yikes.
>
> facebook.com/avalonjazz for those of the mind to click through, and it is
> already at 400+ Likes before the paint is dry!
>
> and I have a favour to ask: the current washroom wallpaper is newspaper
> funnies and I have two old beat up Downbeats that I thought I might
> cannibalize to cut up and re-paper the walls, only two won't do it. Would
> anyone happen to have any old jazz magazines laying about that just never
> made it to the recycle but should have?
>
> --
> *Teledyn Addendum: teledyn blogspot ca*
> *eso: **EighthStreetOrchestra blogspot ca*
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:26:47 -0400
> From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at verizon.net>
> To: "'Dixieland Jazz Mailing List'" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz
> club ...
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> It's a good ten hour drive and I don't have a passport any longer. Wish I
> could be there. Will you be hiring bands of the caliber of the New Black
> Eagles?
>
> Ron L
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dixielandjazz [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On
> Behalf Of Gary Lawrence Murphy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 8:52 AM
> To: Ron
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
>
> Greetings gang,
>
> well it is official, as if I didn't have already no free time, universal
> forced beyond my control conspired to hurl me into the role of the owner of
> a stage-equipped 80-seat restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario of all places,
> with another 80 seats in a rooftop patio under the stars, all of it right in
> the very heart of the downtown, a stone's throw from the main banking
> corner.
>
> Long story short, last January this place defaulted on their lease-to-buy
> and went up for sale way undervalue, I foolishly posted on facebook to say
> "anyone want to start a jazz club" and received offers to help with the
> business plan from as far afield as Kansas City and the UK, I found a
> musician chef who can do New Orleans cooking, an amazing bartender and
> expert servers who are in there right now painting the place in teals and
> golds and there I was, standing in the doorway of my own club when a
> drive-by photo shooting put me up on facebook! Yikes.
>
> facebook.com/avalonjazz for those of the mind to click through, and it is
> already at 400+ Likes before the paint is dry!
>
> and I have a favour to ask: the current washroom wallpaper is newspaper
> funnies and I have two old beat up Downbeats that I thought I might
> cannibalize to cut up and re-paper the walls, only two won't do it. Would
> anyone happen to have any old jazz magazines laying about that just never
> made it to the recycle but should have?
>
> --
> *Teledyn Addendum: teledyn blogspot ca*
> *eso: **EighthStreetOrchestra blogspot ca*
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 08:25:23 -0700
> From: "Robert Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com>
> To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz
> club ...
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> OMG. You do not know what you are getting into.
>
> I have owned a restaurnnt with 18 employees - 17 of which didn't want to do
> their job. All they wanted to do was steal from the employer, show up late,
> but be there with hand out waiting for their check.
>
> And I didn't even try to sell Jazz.
>
> Employees have no business sense. They don't realize what it cost you to
> operate a business. They see the money come in but they don'tsee it go out.
>
> Employees will kill the goose, that lays the golden egg. They will steal the
> employer blind and then wonder what happened to their job.
>
> When I worked in night clubs playing music, I always thought I could run a
> club better than what my boss was doing. It wasn't until I was writing the
> checks myself that I found out how much I didn't know.
>
> Now I have a business with 50 vending machines and two part time employees.
> My 50 vending machines work 24 hours a day and seldom break down. They don't
> steal money and don't call in sick.
>
> All I can say is good luck, guard your back and be careful.
>
> BTW- before you plaster the walls with paper, find out what the building
> code is regarding fire proofing.
>
> -Bob Ringwald
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 5:51 AM
> To: Bob Ringwald
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
>
> Greetings gang,
>
> well it is official, as if I didn't have already no free time, universal
> forced beyond my control conspired to hurl me into the role of the owner of
> a stage-equipped 80-seat restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario of all places,
> with another 80 seats in a rooftop patio under the stars, all of it right
> in the very heart of the downtown, a stone's throw from the main banking
> corner.
>
> Long story short, last January this place defaulted on their lease-to-buy
> and went up for sale way undervalue, I foolishly posted on facebook to say
> "anyone want to start a jazz club" and received offers to help with the
> business plan from as far afield as Kansas City and the UK, I found a
> musician chef who can do New Orleans cooking, an amazing bartender and
> expert servers who are in there right now painting the place in teals and
> golds and there I was, standing in the doorway of my own club when a
> drive-by photo shooting put me up on facebook! Yikes.
>
> facebook.com/avalonjazz for those of the mind to click through, and it is
> already at 400+ Likes before the paint is dry!
>
> and I have a favour to ask: the current washroom wallpaper is newspaper
> funnies and I have two old beat up Downbeats that I thought I might
> cannibalize to cut up and re-paper the walls, only two won't do it. Would
> anyone happen to have any old jazz magazines laying about that just never
> made it to the recycle but should have?
>
> --
> *Teledyn Addendum: teledyn blogspot ca*
> *eso: **EighthStreetOrchestra blogspot ca*
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 18:32:30 +0300
> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
> To: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz
> club ...
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> Congrats.
> Now you'll have to prove yur mettle!
> I wish you success,
> Marek
>
>> On 3 June 2015 at 15:51, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings gang,
>>
>> well it is official, as if I didn't have already no free time, universal
>> forced beyond my control conspired to hurl me into the role of the owner of
>> a stage-equipped 80-seat restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario of all places,
>> with another 80 seats in a rooftop patio under the stars, all of it right
>> in the very heart of the downtown, a stone's throw from the main banking
>> corner.
>>
>> Long story short, last January this place defaulted on their lease-to-buy
>> and went up for sale way undervalue, I foolishly posted on facebook to say
>> "anyone want to start a jazz club" and received offers to help with the
>> business plan from as far afield as Kansas City and the UK, I found a
>> musician chef who can do New Orleans cooking, an amazing bartender and
>> expert servers who are in there right now painting the place in teals and
>> golds and there I was, standing in the doorway of my own club when a
>> drive-by photo shooting put me up on facebook! Yikes.
>>
>> facebook.com/avalonjazz for those of the mind to click through, and it is
>> already at 400+ Likes before the paint is dry!
>>
>> and I have a favour to ask: the current washroom wallpaper is newspaper
>> funnies and I have two old beat up Downbeats that I thought I might
>> cannibalize to cut up and re-paper the walls, only two won't do it. Would
>> anyone happen to have any old jazz magazines laying about that just never
>> made it to the recycle but should have?
>>
>> --
>> *Teledyn Addendum: teledyn blogspot ca*
>> *eso: **EighthStreetOrchestra blogspot ca*
>> _______________________________________________
>> To unsubscribe or change your e-mail preferences for the Dixieland Jazz
>> Mailing list, or to find the online archives, please visit:
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>> http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 18:16:38 +0200
> From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
> To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz
> club...
> Message-ID: <47D85CE3B3F448909F86DAF091C9F858 at JIM>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Bob Ringwald wrote:
>
>> Employees have no business sense. They don't realize what it cost you to
> operate a business. They see the money come in but they don't see it go out.
>
> Although Bob wrote a fairly black picture of the business scene, if anyone
> has ever played a steady club gig over a period of time, you will have seen
> the waiters/bar staff come and go on a regular basis. It is usually due to
> money disappearing from the til!
>
> The places that are successful are where the boss is always there.
> Certainly not an easy life, so I also wish you well, Gary.
>
> I agree with Bob that musicians often find it difficult to understand the
> costs of running a club or even a festival. It's not just the expense of
> the band, but all the other costs of running a business...., even having to
> pay the "composer's society" (or whatever it is called in your area) for the
> songs being played by the band AND recorded music played during the rest of
> the day/night. There's the food/liquor consumed, the help, business
> licenses, electricity, trash pickup.....etc., etc.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 12:21:14 -0400
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>
> To: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at verizon.net>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz
> club ...
> Message-ID:
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>
> Well it's all undiscovered territory at the moment! I've had interest
> expressed by band who say they'll work for cheap just for the freedom to
> play but I certainly don't musicians leaving here with less than three
> busboys! And I know that happens all too often even in the big city clubs.
>
> If it is any sort of draw, we have world class fishing no more than a ten
> minute walk from our door ;)
>> On Jun 3, 2015 10:54 AM, "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> It's a good ten hour drive and I don't have a passport any longer. Wish I
>> could be there. Will you be hiring bands of the caliber of the New Black
>> Eagles?
>>
>> Ron L
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dixielandjazz [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On
>> Behalf Of Gary Lawrence Murphy
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 8:52 AM
>> To: Ron
>> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
>> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
>>
>> Greetings gang,
>>
>> well it is official, as if I didn't have already no free time, universal
>> forced beyond my control conspired to hurl me into the role of the owner of
>> a stage-equipped 80-seat restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario of all places,
>> with another 80 seats in a rooftop patio under the stars, all of it right
>> in
>> the very heart of the downtown, a stone's throw from the main banking
>> corner.
>>
>> Long story short, last January this place defaulted on their lease-to-buy
>> and went up for sale way undervalue, I foolishly posted on facebook to say
>> "anyone want to start a jazz club" and received offers to help with the
>> business plan from as far afield as Kansas City and the UK, I found a
>> musician chef who can do New Orleans cooking, an amazing bartender and
>> expert servers who are in there right now painting the place in teals and
>> golds and there I was, standing in the doorway of my own club when a
>> drive-by photo shooting put me up on facebook! Yikes.
>>
>> facebook.com/avalonjazz for those of the mind to click through, and it is
>> already at 400+ Likes before the paint is dry!
>>
>> and I have a favour to ask: the current washroom wallpaper is newspaper
>> funnies and I have two old beat up Downbeats that I thought I might
>> cannibalize to cut up and re-paper the walls, only two won't do it. Would
>> anyone happen to have any old jazz magazines laying about that just never
>> made it to the recycle but should have?
>>
>> --
>> *Teledyn Addendum: teledyn blogspot ca*
>> *eso: **EighthStreetOrchestra blogspot ca*
>> _______________________________________________
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 12:22:44 -0400
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>
> To: Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz
> club ...
> Message-ID:
> <CAE=O9tbzZeo4rAi3KUrEY0vHXVFBjxAQL257xfY0df+gVjQnZg at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> So far my staff have been here nearly every day this week helping to paint
> and sort through the trash in the basement for no more than the thought
> that maybe we can really change things in this town :)
>
> Maybe that's the advantage in selling jazz?
>> On Jun 3, 2015 11:56 AM, "Robert Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
>>
>> OMG. You do not know what you are getting into.
>>
>> I have owned a restaurnnt with 18 employees - 17 of which didn't want to
>> do their job. All they wanted to do was steal from the employer, show up
>> late, but be there with hand out waiting for their check.
>>
>> And I didn't even try to sell Jazz.
>>
>> Employees have no business sense. They don't realize what it cost you to
>> operate a business. They see the money come in but they don'tsee it go out.
>>
>> Employees will kill the goose, that lays the golden egg. They will steal
>> the employer blind and then wonder what happened to their job.
>>
>> When I worked in night clubs playing music, I always thought I could run a
>> club better than what my boss was doing. It wasn't until I was writing the
>> checks myself that I found out how much I didn't know.
>>
>> Now I have a business with 50 vending machines and two part time
>> employees. My 50 vending machines work 24 hours a day and seldom break
>> down. They don't steal money and don't call in sick.
>>
>> All I can say is good luck, guard your back and be careful.
>>
>> BTW- before you plaster the walls with paper, find out what the building
>> code is regarding fire proofing.
>>
>> -Bob Ringwald
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Gary Lawrence Murphy
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 5:51 AM
>> To: Bob Ringwald
>> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
>> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
>>
>> Greetings gang,
>>
>> well it is official, as if I didn't have already no free time, universal
>> forced beyond my control conspired to hurl me into the role of the owner of
>> a stage-equipped 80-seat restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario of all places,
>> with another 80 seats in a rooftop patio under the stars, all of it right
>> in the very heart of the downtown, a stone's throw from the main banking
>> corner.
>>
>> Long story short, last January this place defaulted on their lease-to-buy
>> and went up for sale way undervalue, I foolishly posted on facebook to say
>> "anyone want to start a jazz club" and received offers to help with the
>> business plan from as far afield as Kansas City and the UK, I found a
>> musician chef who can do New Orleans cooking, an amazing bartender and
>> expert servers who are in there right now painting the place in teals and
>> golds and there I was, standing in the doorway of my own club when a
>> drive-by photo shooting put me up on facebook! Yikes.
>>
>> facebook.com/avalonjazz for those of the mind to click through, and it is
>> already at 400+ Likes before the paint is dry!
>>
>> and I have a favour to ask: the current washroom wallpaper is newspaper
>> funnies and I have two old beat up Downbeats that I thought I might
>> cannibalize to cut up and re-paper the walls, only two won't do it. Would
>> anyone happen to have any old jazz magazines laying about that just never
>> made it to the recycle but should have?
>>
>> --
>> *Teledyn Addendum: teledyn blogspot ca*
>> *eso: **EighthStreetOrchestra blogspot ca*
>> _______________________________________________
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 12:25:44 -0400
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com>
> To: Jim Kashishian <jim at kashprod.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a
> jazz club...
> Message-ID:
> <CAE=O9tZKKfB4PvGFAEZHejZrJt5a-yR6RJtH7UO92MUvB-rxKQ at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Long time ago it would have been the mob wanting protection money ... Some
> things never change ;) we don't expect to get rich; breaking even would be
> really nice though...
>> On Jun 3, 2015 12:23 PM, "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bob Ringwald wrote:
>>
>>> Employees have no business sense. They don't realize what it cost you to
>> operate a business. They see the money come in but they don't see it go
>> out.
>>
>> Although Bob wrote a fairly black picture of the business scene, if anyone
>> has ever played a steady club gig over a period of time, you will have seen
>> the waiters/bar staff come and go on a regular basis. It is usually due to
>> money disappearing from the til!
>>
>> The places that are successful are where the boss is always there.
>> Certainly not an easy life, so I also wish you well, Gary.
>>
>> I agree with Bob that musicians often find it difficult to understand the
>> costs of running a club or even a festival. It's not just the expense of
>> the band, but all the other costs of running a business...., even having to
>> pay the "composer's society" (or whatever it is called in your area) for
>> the
>> songs being played by the band AND recorded music played during the rest of
>> the day/night. There's the food/liquor consumed, the help, business
>> licenses, electricity, trash pickup.....etc., etc.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 09:56:06 -0700
> From: "Robert Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com>
> To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a
> jazzclub...
> Message-ID: <2FF3A2189BDE43F7BFF8634DF773636F at Bob1PC>
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>
> Jim is right.
>
> And don't forget what goes out the back door.
>
> One simple hint for anyone who has a business. Use clear garbage bags.
>
> Employees will hide a roast beef or couple bottles of whiskey in the
> garbage bags and then come back later and retrieve them.
>
> As far as bartenders go, if you know 50 ways for them to steal from you.
> they will know 51.
>
>
> Plan to always be there. It is a bruital business.
>
> -Bob
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 9:25 AM
> To: Bob Ringwald
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a
> jazzclub...
>
> Long time ago it would have been the mob wanting protection money ... Some
> things never change ;) we don't expect to get rich; breaking even would be
> really nice though...
>> On Jun 3, 2015 12:23 PM, "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bob Ringwald wrote:
>>
>>> Employees have no business sense. They don't realize what it cost you to
>> operate a business. They see the money come in but they don't see it go
>> out.
>>
>> Although Bob wrote a fairly black picture of the business scene, if anyone
>> has ever played a steady club gig over a period of time, you will have
>> seen
>> the waiters/bar staff come and go on a regular basis. It is usually due to
>> money disappearing from the til!
>>
>> The places that are successful are where the boss is always there.
>> Certainly not an easy life, so I also wish you well, Gary.
>>
>> I agree with Bob that musicians often find it difficult to understand the
>> costs of running a club or even a festival. It's not just the expense of
>> the band, but all the other costs of running a business...., even having
>> to
>> pay the "composer's society" (or whatever it is called in your area) for
>> the
>> songs being played by the band AND recorded music played during the rest
>> of
>> the day/night. There's the food/liquor consumed, the help, business
>> licenses, electricity, trash pickup.....etc., etc.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 13:34:10 -0400
> From: Pete Grice <pgrice2987 at aol.com>
> To: rsr at ringwald.com
> Cc: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a
> jazzclub...
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>
> Make it a BYOB and for food just appetizers. On receipts add a line for musician tips, in addition to waiter/waitress tips. Keep it simple.
>
> Pete Grice
> Cell (973) 610-1308
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com>
> To: Pete <pgrice2987 at aol.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Wed, Jun 3, 2015 1:24 pm
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] FW: I seem to have accidentally bought a jazzclub...
>
>
> Jim is right.
>
> And don't forget what goes out the back door.
>
> One simple
> hint for anyone who has a business. Use clear garbage bags.
>
> Employees will
> hide a roast beef or couple bottles of whiskey in the
> garbage bags and then
> come back later and retrieve them.
>
> As far as bartenders go, if you know 50
> ways for them to steal from you.
> they will know 51.
>
>
> Plan to always be
> there. It is a bruital business.
>
> -Bob
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Gary Lawrence Murphy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 9:25 AM
> To: Bob
> Ringwald
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] FW: I
> seem to have accidentally bought a
> jazzclub...
>
> Long time ago it would have
> been the mob wanting protection money ... Some
> things never change ;) we don't
> expect to get rich; breaking even would be
> really nice though...
> On Jun 3,
> 2015 12:23 PM, "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
>
>> Bob Ringwald
> wrote:
>>
>>> Employees have no business sense. They don't realize what it cost
> you to
>> operate a business. They see the money come in but they don't see it
> go
>> out.
>>
>> Although Bob wrote a fairly black picture of the business
> scene, if anyone
>> has ever played a steady club gig over a period of time, you
> will have
>> seen
>> the waiters/bar staff come and go on a regular basis. It
> is usually due to
>> money disappearing from the til!
>>
>> The places that are
> successful are where the boss is always there.
>> Certainly not an easy life, so
> I also wish you well, Gary.
>>
>> I agree with Bob that musicians often find it
> difficult to understand the
>> costs of running a club or even a festival. It's
> not just the expense of
>> the band, but all the other costs of running a
> business...., even having
>> to
>> pay the "composer's society" (or whatever it
> is called in your area) for
>> the
>> songs being played by the band AND
> recorded music played during the rest
>> of
>> the day/night. There's the
> food/liquor consumed, the help, business
>> licenses, electricity, trash
> pickup.....etc., etc.
>>
>> Jim
> _______________________________________________
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