Re: cancelled: march 11 open loop

["Clint Allen" <clint.allen@gmail.com>]

Its looking more and more like Williamsburg at this point. 

and any helpful info offline is greatly, greatly appreciated!!!

Clint

On 3/9/06, Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com> wrote:

Good move!  Where in Brooklyn?!

On 3/9/06, Clint Allen <clint.allen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can't promise to do much, but hopefully I will be able to add a few
> individuals at these shows (myself included) in the next few months as I and
> two of my collaborators/friends relocate to the Brooklyn area...
>
> Clint Allen
>
>
>
> On 3/9/06, Tom Ritchford < tom@swirly.com> wrote:
> > That's "towel" not "trowel"!  :-D
> >
> > Yes, the weather was against us.  But I've been doing this for a long
> > time.  I run a fairly popular events mailing list here too that I use
> > to advertise this stuff.   In previous times, I've done things like
> > getting ads in newspapers and handing out lots and lots of fliers.
> > And yet I'd be really, really surprised if I had a show and a dozen
> > people showed up.
> >
> > Considering the amount of gear I take out and the time and money it
> > takes me to get out, there's a level of patheticness that I can't
> > really stomach here.
> >
> >
> > People just aren't so interested in going out and listening to music
> > any more.  If you have thousands of tracks from all the world's
> > musicians on a little box the size of a cigarette package, there
> > really isn't much incentive to go out and just listen.  Sure, going
> > out for a *show*, or to dance... logical.  But not to listen.
> >
> > Older people are more listeners -- but a lot of them aren't interested
> > in weird music any more.  And they don't seem to come out.
> >
> > Younger people want either a spectacle or dance music and I can't
> > provide that.  And I'm not *such* an amazing musician that they'll
> > just show up to admire my chops (and really, when does that happen
> > nowadays?)
> >
> >    /t
> >
> >
> > On 3/8/06, Dan Ash <Daniel.Ash@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > Tom,
> > >
> > > That's too bad.
> > >
> > > Wasn't there a snowstorm the night of the last loop event in Brooklyn?
> > > That might have been a factor.
> > >
> > > Hope you're not really throwing in the trowel.
> > >
> > > Dan Ash
> > > White Plains, NY
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >     /t
> >
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> >
> >
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