Re: OREGON LOOPERS

[Revfever <revfever@ubergadget.com>]

I can also offer any help that I am able to for this event, as long as it happens in Portland. (I don't do all that much traveling.) I also won't be performing but will be glad to assist in however I can. A few places here in Ptld that immediately come to mind as *potential* ( no guarantees) venues are Holocene, The Someday Lounge, and Rotture. There may(?) be others that I am forgetting about, but these 3 are kool places, and have a decent amount of space. (Holocene actually has 2 separate stages in 2 separate rooms). All of these places have previously  featured a wide and often interesting variety of musics and performances, and some of it has been in the same "ball park" at least of what a loop fest may be like, and hopefully the potential for an appreciative audience. They all are also in the inner city and are EZ to find and get to. Just my 2 cents on this. I also have no "connections" with any of these places. Just tossing them out for anyone's consideration, and for anyone who has some kind of experience with putting on fests, of which I have zero experience. But if needed, 

I could maybe do some footwork and / or talking to any of these places if I can offer something "tangible"  for them to consider. But, one possible caveat would be that there is a possibility that any of these places may(?) want to do this on a week night (and / or day?) and not a weekend when they usually do their best business. They are clubs, y'know and usually bring in more customers and $ on the weekends with booty shakin' and such music. 

( Now, that is *not* say that loopage can never end up inducing at least some kind of booty shakin',  but I think ya know what I mean. :-) )

Here are links for all three:

http://www.holocene.org/

http://www.somedaylounge.com/

http://www.rotture.com/

Cheers,

Rev. Fever

Portland,OR

On Dec 26, 2009, at 6:21 PM, tEd ® KiLLiAn wrote:

Jeremy,

So far as I know Rev Fever wasn't expressing any particular interest in this thing (event) so much as correcting my mistaken memory.
If you know otherwise he's certainly welcome.
So far respondents have been:
Christopher Darrow (who made the suggestion in the first place) <thedarrow@gmail.com>
Myself, Ted Killian (weird guitarist stuck down here in nowheresville - also known as Medford) <tedkillian@charter.net>
Dave Trenkle (of Corvalis, who plays in a great jazz/funk band called 11-eyes) <improv@peak.org>
Yourself (in Portland) <deafrose58@hotmail.com>
And maybe Rev Fever (also in Portland) if he's interested.
At some point we should take this off the list probably.
Do we have enough interested parties yet?
Discuss.
Ted

On Dec 26, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Jeremy devros wrote:

I'm here in the Portland area --I tend to be sort of quiet on the list ( ears open, mouth shut) --My current, long running gig is less looping and a whole lot of Middle Eastern/European/N African/Psychedelic jazzy stuff that belly dancers like. But I have thrown in looping to good effect.

I think a looping tour of Oregonians would rock. I have connections to a few venues here in Portland and Rev Fever knows a few more.

What are we waiting for?

J.D.Devros

deafrose58