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11/25/2001
EAR PLUGS
A nasty cold kept the DP staff sequestered in the HQ for most of the holiday
weekend so we missed all the great music around town. Anyone see anything good?
Bad? Indifferent? Send us a report!
Jon Byrd, of Greta Lee Band and other country-fried efforts around town moved
to Nashville a while back and sent us this report:
What can I say. Nashville is exactly what I was hoping it would be. Small-town
like Alabama, 'Dream'-crazy like Hollywood, old and nouveau $$ like ATL, and
lots and lots of musicians. I won't name-drop (Pete Anderson!) but I've met
a few (Pete Anderson!) musicians that I've looked up to (Pete Anderson!) a long
time (Pete Anderson!). There are so many good pickers here (duh!) and singers
(duh!) and songwriters... wait just a damn a minute. One thing I have learned
is that the songwriting in this town is so bad that even *I* might end up getting
rich! Anyway, every Tuesday I help my new friend Slade Cochran stage manage
(I lug amps, etc.) the Western Beat radio show. I just played Bluebird show
with Greta where the other so-called songwriters sang about Monopoly and Icharus.
(See I told you it was bad.) BTW, Greta and I have really enjoyed trying to
figure out the whole Nashville thing. There are a million un-written rules and
nuances and of course, I'm a smartass-bull in a china shop. (You couldn't keep
from laughing out loud either if you heard some of this stuff!) Anyway, we've
just lined up 2 Thursdays in Dec. at the Bluegrass Inn down on Lower Broadway
across from Ernest Tubb Record Shop and next to Robert's Western Wear. We've
got 2 dates with the Derailers and we're playing in ATL Dec.15th. Music is GOOD.
Oh, yea, the Americana Music Conf. was a bust for me. I volunteered for 2 evenings
(8-10hours each night) and they still wanted me to pay $75 bucks to sit in on
the air-your-grievances Town Hall Meeting. Ugh.
PARTY HARDY
The New Years discussion continues with this from degenerate DM:
If you are considering spending money for vegas - you might want to think about
cruise lines that are offering cheap prices. I haven't checked it out, yet,
but I know some folks that are going After and before new years - and it looks
to be cheap then too. Let me know whatever you guys decide - though vegas seems
cool.
And this from degenerate BS:
Since I have a large group of friends (26) already going, why not Amsterdam
for New Years? Lots of "interesting" things to eat and/or ingest,
and all
legal (there at least!)
And one from degenerate ES:
I've been racking my brain, even considered hosting it myself (after 3 glasses
of wine)...
But if you're really counting votes on what has been suggested, Widespread Panic
gets my vote.
Editor's response:
Hmmm. I'd love to do Amsterdam but the aforementioned budgetary constraints
prevent such extravagances. As for Widespread Panic, I don't consider a large
venue concert to be much of a party, particularly for a groove/jam rock act.
Vegas wouldn't be as large an expenditure for us since we'll be in Texas for
Consumass anyhow and could catch a flight from there but thus far one half-hearted
vote for it isn't very encouraging. We've heard a few rumors of house parties
but haven't gotten official invites from any.
Any more votes or ideas?
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