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11-18-2008, 08:55 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | I'm too weird for San Francisco.
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It's official - I can't get a gig in this town. I just had a booking agent tell me that my music is "too out there" for his venue. His venue is one of the weirder places in San Francisco! What the hell? Somehow a guy performing songs on a 9-string acoustic guitar is too weird for the most artsy fartsy city in the country? How did this happen?
I'm doomed - DOOMED! I will never make a dime in this industry, unless I'm playing bass for jazz, funk, and blues bands. Weak. |
11-18-2008, 08:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Boston | | | too weird for SF? come out to massachusetts. |
11-18-2008, 09:01 PM
|  | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | | RI has a great music scene. Nothing is too weird.
Check the Phoenix website. We got all kinds.
Let it hang out bro. Don't give up.
Try to book, Lupo's, Club Hell, Jerky's, Narrows Center for the Arts, AS220, Stone Soup. PM me an addy and I will mail you the local art rags.
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11-18-2008, 09:05 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | Would that make you a macadamia in a jar of mixed nuts? Just odd enough that you don't belong? |
11-18-2008, 09:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | | Solo 9 string acoustic sounds like good coffee shop fodder...although the pay probably wouldn't be as good as a club.
bc
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11-18-2008, 09:26 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DigMe  Solo 9 string acoustic sounds like good coffee shop fodder...although the pay probably wouldn't be as good as a club.
bc | Except for the fact that my music is depressing as hell. Coffeeshops don't want dark and dissonant - they want folky and poetic. |
11-18-2008, 09:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | Take it from me, the music scene there sucks.
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11-18-2008, 10:08 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | I told you man, there hasn't been any room for artists there in many years. Any remaining "artsy-fartsiness" is just a nostalgic association- merely fartsiness. You want a gig? Tell them you're a DJ and you work for cheap. |
11-18-2008, 10:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Modesto, CA | | | I just listened to some of your stuff, real nice man.
We do some unique stuff in the central valley. I'll give you a holler when we book our next solo bass show and have you do a set!!!!
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11-18-2008, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by jady I just listened to some of your stuff, real nice man.
We do some unique stuff in the central valley. I'll give you a holler when we book our next solo bass show and have you do a set!!!! | Sweet! Thanks! |
11-18-2008, 10:44 PM
|  | Guess what?! I got a fever! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San jose, Cal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Sweet! Thanks! | Quote:
Originally Posted by jady I just listened to some of your stuff, real nice man.
We do some unique stuff in the central valley. I'll give you a holler when we book our next solo bass show and have you do a set!!!! |
+1 on central valley.
BTW jady, you wouldn't know a guy named Jimbo? (used to be bassist for thr3fold...)
Used to love his style...
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11-18-2008, 10:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco | | | yeah, the live scene died here many years ago.
it's really bad these days. |
11-18-2008, 11:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Except for the fact that my music is depressing as hell. Coffeeshops don't want dark and dissonant - they want folky and poetic. | Meh...just tell them that you're folky and poetic. Come in with your guitar, strum some Indigo Girls tunes to get the gig and then show up and bum everyone out. Cha-ching!
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11-18-2008, 11:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | It's true, you will not make money except by playing music people enjoy. |
11-18-2008, 11:37 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Yeah, I kind of thought that about you when you announced you were coming to SF. We got a crapload of weirdo's in Olympia. You could always come up here and jam out.
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11-19-2008, 02:12 AM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | | Its their loss Ben.
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11-19-2008, 08:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Modesto, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kserg +1 on central valley.
BTW jady, you wouldn't know a guy named Jimbo? (used to be bassist for thr3fold...)
Used to love his style... | Sho' do. I've known Jimbo for about 15 years, we used to do a 2 bass, drums rush cover project 
I am playing a solo bass show with him on the 29th too He is focusing more on Warr guitar now days though, it fits his solo style a lot better.
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11-19-2008, 09:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Memphis,Tn | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Except for the fact that my music is depressing as hell. Coffeeshops don't want dark and dissonant - they want folky and poetic. | The difference between dark and dissonant and folky and poetic is subject matter...
So write music about unicorns...
Roasting on a spit! |
11-19-2008, 09:16 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Georynn The difference between dark and dissonant and folky and poetic is subject matter...
So write music about unicorns...
Roasting on a spit! | Umm... have you heard my music? EVERY song is about roasting unicorns. |
11-19-2008, 09:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Memphis,Tn | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Umm... have you heard my music? EVERY song is about roasting unicorns. | Yes, your songs are pretty , uhm...
angry...
in a folky, poetic way... 
BTW what bass are you using on the object UB313 song? thats a pretty nice dirty mean bass tone...
I didn't notice much bass guitar in your music...
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