Fitz I\'d wait to see how many people actually show up before I put all my money on the mass-facebook-invite fast-track to super-stardom.
its not a fast track to super stardom. its a tedious job that would be a lot of work to constantly stay on top of and it would require several peoples help always keeping it up to date. you just said you had a good feeling about this one. what made you change your mind and think people wont actually show up?
each event needs photos, a video, and all the links to .info, .org. archive, etc...its not something to do for a just week or a month and give up on. it has to be maintained. if we can eventually invite 3000 jam band fans, shoot mostly for ages 25 and under, and encourage them to invite everyone they know who likes live music, it will still make a huge difference even if barely 1% of the invites make it to the show
tea leaf green packed the paradise last weekend and almost everyone i talked to pre show and at setbreak were not even familiar with tlg\'s music at all. most went to the show because they just like jambands and would have been at umphreys, moe, disco biscuits, or whoever was else was in town. i asked everyone i talked to about the breakfast and most of them said they liked the band and mentioned that tim was a sick guitarist or whatever, but most also had said they had not been to a show in a few years. some thought the band broke up and tim went solo, but mentioned reba and crazy sandwiches that they heard tim play on archive/bt.etree.org. not a single person out of the 50-60 i talked over the weekend said they never heard of the band or didnt like them.
more than half of the people i talked to had heard of kung fu also or at least knew tim and adrian were in a new band with stoops. these people are not on .info but i think they would go to a show if they knew they were happening. they threw down $20 for a tea leaf ticket and were not really even fans. so i think they would pay $10 and go to a breakfast show. i dont think anything is being done right now to promote shows in a way to connect with these people who are probably everywhere.
147 people were invited to mill street this for saturday. 21 are going and 20 are maybes. but i just looked on my friend list and invited 40 more people who i know have seen the band at mill st in the past. why were they not invited earlier? this show is only a few days away! if they were invited a week or two ago maybe they could have invited 5 more people each who probably should have been on the list already. and maybe they could have each invited a friend or two. and then it just spreads even further.
for fucks sake i just had to tell paul ryan about the mill st show and he\'s 1 of the only 2 people that can add dates to the .info calendar. if the people in charge of the fan site dont even have the info how are n00bs supposed to find it???
