shows in Cleveland vs. shows in Pittsburgh

[Chris Rapier]

When the scene smaller you could often depend on 60 to 80 people for
most any show. I guess we were more easily impressed back then. Of
course, this was before you had a sharp delination between the goths
and punks and all the subgenres. Its kind of funny - when there were
fewer freaks everyone pretty much was part of one scene. Thats why it
was always possibel to put on a show that had bands that spanned
genres. Once being a freak became acceptable, if not actually
mainstream, so many people are involved that the impetus to explore
new things sort of died out.

Also, a lot of the older people just got tired and bored with going to
shows all the time. So I guess when you get right down to it, this is
all my fault.
On 3/2/06, Brian J. Parker <brian.j.parker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/2/06, j eric townsend <jet at flatline.net> wrote:
> > So, we just did the 2.5hr drive to Cleveland and back for the Meat Beat Manifesto show.
> >
> > Question is, how often should we plan on doing this in the future?
>
> We tend to take more of the smaller, interesting acts (thanks to Manny
> and Jim Semonick) but a many of the moderately-sized acts tend to go
> to Cleveland because of the larger population base and historically
> better turnout for shows.  Booking agents can be lazy and often just
> call the people they worked with for the last tour.  Word of the way
> Mr. Smalls is packing them in may start to get around and change that.
>
> The bigger acts that cater to the G/I scene sometimes skip both and
> just hit D.C. and Philly for short tours-- get used to travelling
> there for your Covenants etc.!
>
> B
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