THD - "evolution of our decay" album

[John]

I realize it is a promoter's job to promote a show and I typed my 
response out wrong. What I meant to say was that it's usually on them to 
sell some of the tickets to the show. You've never been to one where the 
bands had a certain amount of tickets to sell on their own? I still 
think a band that wants a decent audience at their show should take it 
on themselves to get the word out as well. I'm not in a band but if I 
was I would never rely solely on the promoter, no matter how good they 
are, to bring people to the show.

John

Jeremy wrote:
> "I've heard a lot of bands complain that they don't get enough for a
> show, but it's usually on them to sell the tickets to the show."
>
> I'm not sure what you're talking about there. It's a promoter's job to
> promote a show. It's a band's job to play a show. Bands make music.
> Promoters sell tickets. If bands sold tickets themselves, they
> wouldn't need promoters.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:27 PM, John <anhedonia77 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> No problem Manny. I've never heard any concrete proof of anything major come
>> out of these discussions. It always seemed like it was someone trying to
>> make a big deal out of something small. Almost any promoter I know has been
>> accused of some bullshit at one time or another and 95% of the time it was
>> usually the bands fault. I've heard a lot of bands complain that they don't
>> get enough for a show, but it's usually on them to sell the tickets to the
>> show. If they don't sell a decent amount, they won't get paid what the other
>> bands who did pull their weight were payed and they don't deserve to be. As
>> for the comment about the knife incident. I don't know anything about it but
>> if it was in self defense, I really don't have a problem with it.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Thanks, John.
>>>
>>> Even more importantly, based on whatever has been discussed on this list
>>> in the past ten years,
>>> there's very little that I've really even done "wrong" per se.
>>> We talked so far about my being late for radio shows, my rubbing a handful
>>> of people the wrong
>>> way at a radio station which caused them to take undue vengeance, and my
>>> trying to defend myself when physically attacked three times. Anything
>>> else?
>>> If that is the absolute worst that can come up (and I guarantee you that
>>> it is), then the rest is just shit-talking and either falsifying incidents
>>> or blowing them out of proportion.
>>>
>>> -mt
>>>
>>>  Sure, he
>>>
>>>       
>>>> may have done some questionable things in the past, but who hasn't. I
>>>> just can't seem to understand why people would want to attack a guy for
>>>> a few things he's done wrong, when he really has done a lot of good for
>>>> music in Pittsburgh.
>>>>
>>>>         
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