The Breakfast.info
Breakfast Babble => Dig => Topic started by: skalnbyc on April 19, 2005, 07:10:52 pm
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How do you plan on introducing the music and stage banter of your favorite band to new people?
Use this thread to discuss ways to give the music world more exposure to the breakfast or refer to succesful methods exploited by other bands.
What have you done in the past to spread the music?
Think the breakfast deserves a million fans? How do we get there?
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I plan to do nothing in hopes that no one will ever find out about the breakfast I can continue paying 5 dollars a show and going directly to the front of the stage forever.
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lol
i will continue to do what ive always done.
pass out handbills
talk about them on mb
plus some other shit that needs to be done.
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ive dished out cd\'s to everyone i know, will continue to do so, and no matter who i come across i preach about this band. ive also been relentless at times on PT boards and HSMF boards and some people took it well, others not. i just hope everyone ive gotten to listen will do the same to others they know, and so on, resulting in an exponential growth that will help them get into theaters by 06. oh yeah, and deuce should be passed out before Real Radio guys, i think it would help.
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Same role I play every year. Pass out CD\'s blab abt The Breakfast until people tell me to shut up and then I put them on the stereo LOUD!! Pimp for a sweet spot @ Baja Bash and Freak when they actually come out West.
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honestly the best thing I will do for the breakfast this year is probly just talk everyones ear off about them....fans and non-fans alike
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oh yeah, and deuce should be passed out before Real Radio guys, i think it would help.
actually, neither should be passed out, unless you\'re actually buying up a bunch and passing them out..
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bout time this area of the board is used!
We need to get the Breakfast name out there anyway possible. It is a lot of tedious footwork but it pays off. As a group we need to discuss possible ways of putting the Breakfast name into large groups of people. Outside of putting up show bills and passing out hand bills, the focus should be in city areas and culture spots.
I have a few headie shops that I frequent often and I am always leaving HGMN Catalogs there. Every opportunity I have I try to leave what ever Breakfast material I have there.
I would like to make a trek into NYC and give hand bills out for the 6/3 show. As a group I think we need to focus our energy where the payoff is the most, i.e. getting people to the late night tents at festivals and major cities outside of New England. Believe it or not, the Breakfast is hardly known outside of here!
As always, I will do as much as I can to get anyone to listen to this band but we most definately need to come up with a few solid ideas to get this band the attention they deserve.
Just my thoughts!
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Here is a question:
What shows are the best shows to burn and hand out? We all have our favorites but what shows really highlight their ability to play music? Just thinking as I am going to begin ripping a hundred discs and passing them out over the next month or so.
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oh yeah, and deuce should be passed out before Real Radio guys, i think it would help.
actually, neither should be passed out, unless you\'re actually buying up a bunch and passing them out..
definitely, i shouldve said Deuce should be pushed to buy before Real Radio.
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I\'ve been passing out the Call show to anyone with a hand out for new music, and trust me there are tons of people willing to take a free listen.
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Tha Call show is a good show to pass out. It definately shows their ability!
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I\'ll just keep bringing friends along.
"What the f*ck it\'s only six bucks man, come see this band they\'re sick..."
works every time. After that they always want to know when the next show is coming up :)
Oh yeah, and acting like a total Breakfast fanboy on message boards. I may have introduced a few people that way too...
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word of mouth is the most inexpensive grassroots tool we have, keep it up!
What major cities do most people live by?
Any local hotspots that any of you have in your area where you might be able to promote the band?
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I almost passed out at the Call show....
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"word of mouth is the most inexpensive grassroots tool we have"
probly the most effective too. People have a tendencey to disregard and throw out flyers for bands they have never seen before
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absolutely true, we definately do not want to see a bunch of the bands flyers on the ground or in trash cans. From my experience in promotions, they only time handbills work is when you go to a show and pass them out as you talk to people or you can litter there cars as the show is ending.
whatever works is where we need to make our focus!
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Tha Call show is a good show to pass out. It definately shows their ability!
absolutely, most frequently burned show from my household. Gravity, Oddity, Funk, and entire second set shows their incredible versatility. still my favorite show to listen to and pass out.
btw, any word on this past weekend getting up on archive. esp. the 15th, cant wait to hear it.
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the 15th, I can\'t wait either for this one. the only show I missed of the weekend and they play all the tunes I have been waiting for. it\'s no secret that I love the spacey funk of 2001. Why did I have to miss this one?
thats why you can\'t miss any of these!
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the 15th, I can\'t wait either for this one. the only show I missed of the weekend and they play all the tunes I have been waiting for. it\'s no secret that I love the spacey funk of 2001. Why did I have to miss this one?
thats why you can\'t miss any of these!
How many times did I say something like this on GD or Phish tour I have no idea. Glad to see a band this small inspiring the same thoughts. lol
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Agreed Leith,
how many times on tour with Phish did I say this? often, the show you miss is always the best of the run. having never seen the GD I can not comment on this one.
But it is true, they have inspired me to say, can\'t believe I missed this one!
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Well the first time I actually said that abt these guys was after downloading and listening to the 3/4/05 Toad\'s RR release party. I remember thinking \'DAMN these guys have stepped it up\' for me it was a turning point in my love for The Breakfast. It was the first time I actually kicked myself for not flying out. I downloaded shows that interested me up until 3/4/05 now I pretty much download EVERY show because I do not want to miss anything.
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with phish you could ussually predict what was going to be the hottest shows though. i.e...the last few shows of the tour...special venues etc... The breakfast is always doing random weekend tours and is getting better and better and bolder and bolder every show so its much harder to predict
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with phish you could ussually predict what was going to be the hottest shows though. i.e...the last few shows of the tour...special venues etc... The breakfast is always doing random weekend tours and is getting better and better and bolder and bolder every show so its much harder to predict
You could not do that from \'90-\'96 no fucking way could you predict what they would play no matter how many shows you made. No way!!!!
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Leith,
3/4/2005 was also a defining moment in Breakfastory for myself. It is the first time I really said, the hell with all other bands, this band is for me. I had been into the Breakfast since they started back in 1998/1999 but only here and there shows now its like, gotta go to this one and this one and ohh that one sounds good too.
can\'t start your day without eating your breakfast!
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"You could not do that from \'90-\'96 no fucking way could you predict what they would play no matter how many shows you made. No way!!!!\'
yea but if you were on tour in 94-96 then you should not have been missing anything because they were all hot as shit! there was no need to predict what the great shows were gonna be untill they started playing lots of average and below average shows around 98
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EZ to say but in reality between GD where you had to go every night because they were soooooooooooo hit or miss by then and trying to match up Phish tour around GD tour and something called work it was hard as hell to see what I did.
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with phish you could ussually predict what was going to be the hottest shows though. i.e...the last few shows of the tour...special venues etc... The breakfast is always doing random weekend tours and is getting better and better and bolder and bolder every show so its much harder to predict
disagree 100%
i think phish were kings of blowing their load before the expected huge shows. i dont, generally speaking ypu just could not call a big show from phish ever. look at their last show in Chicago EVER, possibly the worst show EVER.
and oh yeah, Coventry was on fire! :liar:
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if you thought coventry was going to be the fire you desrved to be disapointed
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if you thought coventry was going to be the fire you desrved to be disapointed
Even if I didnt go to Vegas, Wooklyn, SPAC, Great Woods, and Camden in 2004....I would have never have thought to go to Coventry....Not with the Breakfast playing a 2 night stand at Cafe 9....
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I am looking to talk up some people at the Phix show this Friday.
Hopefully, I will have flyers in time for the Jammys. I just got around to putting in a request for some.
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fine guys, i guess im a douche for going to coventry, hoping for a fluff or forbins or a final set that went until at least 12:30am, fuck! i hate myself, and i still have a scar on my foot from that miserable muck made of mud.
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I almost passed out at the Call show....
ditto. . .
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<-- well, there\'s this little website thing.. ;)
but ser, i\'m burning 200 discs to pass out at the webster show to promote .info. will probably do the same thing at strangecreek..
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<-- well, there\'s this little website thing.. ;)
but ser, i\'m burning 200 discs to pass out at the webster show to promote .info. will probably do the same thing at strangecreek..
.info has its own band/shows now? damn I am WAY out of the l00p. .
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ant - i have no idea what you\'re talking about..
go look at the poker thread, will ya?
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dave - I have no idea what I am talking about either, it is 4/20 and all. . . no wait, Im at work and have this girl rambling on about her personal life and problems, thats why im incoherent
go look at the poker thread (was an edit while you were posting)
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I really think a great way for folks to discover the Breakfast is to read about the band in a newspaper. Millions of people could read about them if enough newspapers gave them coverage. If the writers are enthusiastic enough and envision a promising future for the band, it will surely intrigue plenty of curious readers.
I am planning on writing to all the music columnists in Bay Area newspapers in the hopes that my Breakfast pitch will pay off in the form of a well-deserved column profiling the band.
While looking through some major newspapers in search of the names and email addresses of local columnists, I realized we could execute this plan with efficiency on a larger scale. Many of us live in metropolitan areas with large populations (NY, Boston, Chicago, D.C., L.A., S.D. etc) and plenty of well-read newspapers. Perhaps we could come up with a template or standard letter that presents the band and our reasoning for its bright future/potential for a major following. The next step is to send it off via email to the papers and hope that they get coverage. If we use a single letter, it shouldn\'t take much time to find the contact of info of local writers and send out the standardized emails.
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TIMMY TOUR 2005!
nuff said.
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Just get all of those writers on TT05 and they would def write about whoever you wanted them to. Or better yet we could have the after party at said writers house and after about an hour when the dude was lit we could write it ourselves and get him to sign off on it...get the guy some METH, brah.
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...get the guy some METH, brah.
call Lisa