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Breakfast Babble => See The Light => Topic started by: davepeck on February 14, 2006, 09:43:44 am
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Calling All Fans - We need your help!!
...in naming The Breakfast Street Team.
We are in need of a name for you, the fans who promote each show and help us out more than we can ever imagine. We have called it Breakfast Grassroots since the inception of the band but we are ready for something new. Come up with a bunch of names, the band will pick the best 5 and then you, the fans, will vote on one and give an identity to the soldiers spreading The Breakfast message!
Post here with your ideas!
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interesting....
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^^^that name is pretty weak, mandler.
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:lol:
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It\'s about time! I emailed Tim a few weeks ago about changing it to a Street Team to get away from a grassroots style. No real difference except that I would rather be part of a "street team" than a "grassroots".
Wild Pack of Asscracks
Team b\'fast
I have a few more but will hold off for the time being.
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B\'Fam
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Psygn Pskwad
Hand Bill Harry
Wild Pack of Asscracks
Episode 4 (Street Team)
Team Po Zest
Simpletons OR Sons of Simpleton
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Underpaid Middle-aged Waitresses
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Wild Pack Street Attack?
I\'m not a fan of being referred to as an asscrack
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Hippies With Handbills
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Hippies With Handbills
this one has a nice ring to it
Psychedelic Foot Soldiers
Simpletons (as Drew said)
Waiters/Waitress\'
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green eggs and ham
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Hippies With Handbills
please god nooooooo!!!!!
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Hippies With Handbills
please god nooooooo!!!!!
yeah, i can\'t think of one \'hippie\' on the street team anyways.
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zactly!
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The Breakfast Brigade.
Ser Sign Squad.
The Serhead Superstars.
Love Lake Swim Team.
Spacey\'s Cadets.
Spaced Cadets.
Little Lebowski\'s Urban Achievers.
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Little Lebowski\'s Urban Achievers.
^^best yet even though it\'s stolen
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I like Serhead Superstars and Spacey\'s Cadets myself. You\'ll be happy to know that my indoor Ultimate team just finished doing the same thing to name the team, and the team picked Little Lebowski\'s Urban Achievers after I threw it out there :)
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Funk Patrol or Psgyn Patrol
Tribal Funk Street Team or Tribal Funk Addiction
"Breakfast for the rest of us!"
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The B Fam
Set it up like the mob, not that there really is one;), Have the Head be the GodFather and then there would be the councilare(sp??) who would be in charge of setting up all the kinko\'s accts and finances. Then it could be broken up by regions(i.e. NE, SE, MW, SW, Cali, NW) with one Capo who has a line of Lieutenants under him by state. Then they have an army of foot "soldiers" under them. The capos would be in touch with the councilare(sp) after he got all his volunteers for that regions shows, and would order the right amount of handbills. He/she would get those(from said Kinko\'s or mail) and distribute them accordingly to the right peeps. Each show fliered would be considered a "job" or a "hit" or a contract...keep working hard you move up in the Family(free shows, merch-if band agrees-,etc). Don\'t do your job the right way or get caught getting fliers and posters and going for free, w/o putting them up...you get WHACKED(and lose the place you held). This would also be a help for the organization when they start to get bigger and want to expand the road crew, they will be able to see who is more dedicated.
I guess I was thinking about it this way when I was helping the band with this before my dad got sick. Of course that is just my idea...someone can disagree.
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Walsh watches a couple episodes of the sopranos and gets alittle carried away... ;) actually I dont\' think it\'s a bad idea, gives the whole thing structure, individuality, and some cool appeal
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cheerios
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More like Fruity Pebbles....
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Hippies With Handbills
please god nooooooo!!!!!
yeah, i can\'t think of one \'hippie\' on the street team anyways.
:wave:
Oh and I like Team Po Zest
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grits and gravy
Awful House (waffle house)
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Sons of Spears
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grits and gravy
i\'m down w/ the grits and gravy.
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^^^
Psychedelic Soldiers!
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The \'B\' Team
::turns down the A-Team theme music blasting in the background::
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B\'fam fo life...Im with walsh
Kinkos sucks...they are really expensive
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I was actually thinking "Breakfast Brigade" before I saw Wolfy\'s post...
I like B\'Fam, but isn\'t anyone who loves the Breakfast a part of the family? Not just the street team? There\'s always Team Red Bull... ;)
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ooohhh...I like B-team and Psychedelic Soldiers. Can\'t wait to see the finalists!
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"The Breakfast Militia".....this guys name is "metal"
(http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/7324/metalmilita7hl.jpg)
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b\'fast allstars
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staven cougers :lol:
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The Lunch Posse
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Blubladan\'s Bitches
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Fancakes or Breakfast Links :) :banana: (<- i luv the dancing banana)
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actually, walshes idea is really, really good.
you should break the sections of the country into \'zones\' though.
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I would rather be part of a "street team" than a "grassroots".
Wild Pack of Asscracks
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Wild Pack of Grassroots Asscracks
Wild Pack of Street Promo Asscracks
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"Cheese Fries"
ok, maybe not... I\'m just eating them right now & they\'re really yummy! :lol:
Ser, though, I like Walsh\'s BFam - how \'bout an acronym for it?
B rigade of
F unk-
A ss
M usic
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The French Toast Sticks
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I will probably get flamed for this...
but I don\'t think Breakfast promotion should really be a "fam/family" thing. Every other kid I know is part of this-or-that "family", and, contrary to the intent of rainbow/whatever, it is often a distinction that excludes rather than includes.
For this reason I prefer something like Wild Pack of Asscracks... because its purely related to the band without other connotations.
And, other personal reasons that go back a long way in the jam band scene, I just don\'t want to go back to the whole "family" gig. IMO it gets played out real quick these days.
sorry for the rant, flame on.
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^^^^ here here :)
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I was actually thinking "Breakfast Brigade" before I saw Wolfy\'s post...
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Blubladan\'s Bitches
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Blubladan Brigade
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the breakfast buffet line
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any1 else think alot of these names are foolish.....just make it the B team or the breakfast street team
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any1 else think alot of these names are foolish.....
nooooooooooooo...... out of THIS group?! the same group that produced gem after priceless gem in the \'great band names\' thread?? no way!
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Breakfast Links
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any1 else think alot of these names are foolish.....
nooooooooooooo...... out of THIS group?! the same group that produced gem after priceless gem in the \'great band names\' thread?? no way!
good point
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any1 else think alot of these names are foolish.....just make it the B team or the breakfast street team
Sure...and you can name your next band "Four musicians."
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Vera Streetteam
Uncle Freddy\'s Bandits
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any1 else think alot of these names are foolish.....just make it the B team or the breakfast street team
Sure...and you can name your next band "Four musicians."
well the bands\' name isn\'t too foolish (i don\'t think at least, but it did have to grow on me alot before I liked it). It\'s gotta be tough to come up with a good band name and i\'m sure tons of foolish one\'s get tossed in the mix, but I\'m just saying some of the names I read in this thread are just nonsense IMO.
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- green eggs and spam (already said this, but changed to spam, since flyering and whatnot is after all, spam.)
- Chew on This/These
- Taboo Troupe
- Psygn Squad
- actually, those suck, so I\'ll stop, I am not a creative person.
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I agree with Weekapaug19, I think The Breakfast Street Team is fine.
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Most of these names for the street team have no potential but it is fun to see what is posted.
You definitely want a street team that has a catchy name and not too generic or you might as well keep it as grassroots. Naming your street team is nothing more than a way of trying to sale your band\'s promotion. People want to be part of something when they do this stuff, its all just a face.
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Who cares what other jambands do, this is a fam and should be considered so...LONG LIVE THE BFAM!!!
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fams=exclude new fans.. just my .02
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if there is anything we can not afford to do is make new fans feel excluded, we need to make them feel completely welcome.
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I think before the band decides to dub fanbases or promoting teams they should build up a solid national following.....
This thread would be useful in 2008 IMHO.
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Blubladan\'s Bitches.... that is good. I like B-Team as well.
Nothing too cutesy here people.
I do not like the way "Bfam" sounds... the idea is cool, but Bfam kinda makes me cringe.
So that\'s my input, sans any actual contributions or original ideas. :P
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I think your wrong here. Every band has a street team and it is usually named to some extent. Without a street team or promotion the band won\'t be around in 2008.
I agree that the fanbase shouldn\'t be named yet but definitely a street team.
No band makes it anywhere with out promotion.
The band is at the stage where the promotion of the band by its fans will make them or break them.
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Fanbase first... This fanbase (as far as regular Breakfast addicts go, people willing to tour) is about the size of two of the art classes I subbed for today..
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You can not have a fanbase without promotion of some sort.
Promotion and Street teams are essential to the success of any band.
How do you build a fanbase???? By promoting the band.
People are not just going to show up.
Fanbase first... This fanbase (as far as regular Breakfast addicts go, people willing to tour) is about the size of two of the art classes I subbed for today..
There is a larger fanbase in the mid-west than I think you know about. Not all of them post here on .info but they do love there breakfast out there.
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Let the record company/venue worry about promotion. Fans should worry about enjoying the music. I used to worry about street team stuff all the time, and I realized it took away from my main desire, "the music".
It\'s not that I disagree with street promoting, I think it\'s a brilliant idea, but when it comes down to it I think professionals should be handling it, plus naming it is just plain silly.
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Ever band has a named street team even if it is as simple as The Breakfast Street Team. Umphrey\'s has Umph Street Team.
The record company only promotes the record. The venue hardly ever promotes the show outside of there establishment. I do believe that there needs to be assistance from both but my main desire is the music too and while I can appreciate that you do not want to do any of the foot work as far as promotion there are others out there that enjoy spreading the music. Promotion is not only for the "professionals", what ever they are it is the fans responsiblity as listen to help spread good music, whether that be burning discs, doing vines, talking the band up or whatever.
The other thing that I think many of you all forget is that promotion=major money. A band like the breakfast can not afford "professionals" to hand out and promote the band. So, if we left it up to these professionals, the band would get stale and we would be a few steps back from where we are.
This negativity and what we think is best for the band needs to stop. We all need to stay fucking positive and do our part to help in whatever way we can. That can be as easy as going to a show.
Keep it positive people.
If we all really knew something about anything, then why are we sitting around on a message board? Those who know go out and do.
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I do my part in spreading the buzz and the music.... To me that\'s the best promotion possible.
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Psycho Pygmies or Psycho Souls
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I agree with Weekapaug19, I think The Breakfast Street Team is fine.
Boring we need something with some life to it
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I do my part in spreading the buzz and the music.... To me that\'s the best promotion possible.
my point exactly
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Ever band has a named street team even if it is as simple as The Breakfast Street Team. Umphrey\'s has Umph Street Team.
The record company only promotes the record. The venue hardly ever promotes the show outside of there establishment. I do believe that there needs to be assistance from both but my main desire is the music too and while I can appreciate that you do not want to do any of the foot work as far as promotion there are others out there that enjoy spreading the music. Promotion is not only for the "professionals", what ever they are it is the fans responsiblity as listen to help spread good music, whether that be burning discs, doing vines, talking the band up or whatever.
The other thing that I think many of you all forget is that promotion=major money. A band like the breakfast can not afford "professionals" to hand out and promote the band. So, if we left it up to these professionals, the band would get stale and we would be a few steps back from where we are.
This negativity and what we think is best for the band needs to stop. We all need to stay fucking positive and do our part to help in whatever way we can. That can be as easy as going to a show.
Keep it positive people.
If we all really knew something about anything, then why are we sitting around on a message board? Those who know go out and do.
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what kind of profession hands out handbills at the end of a show they just went to. if anyone is capable/ responsable for spreading the word and knowing what\'s going on it\'s the fans. form now on every time i go to a non-Breakfast show i\'ll have a couple hundred hand bills printed out to pass out. but i think cd\'s would be the most effective means of promoting the band, from what i saw yesterday at Umph. if those kids had a disk to listen to on the way home.... money..... would you say.... "no thanks man i don\'t want any free music".... hells no.
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Garcian Assholes
No handbills...
Handbills with discs on the other hand :):):):):):):):):):):):)
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Garcian Assholes
No handbills...
Handbills with discs on the other hand :):):):):):):):):):):):)
all i have to say about that is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Garcian Assholes
No handbills...
Handbills with discs on the other hand :):):):):):):):):):):):)
all i have to say about that is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
when we hit the powerball all promotion for the life of the band will be taken care of ;)
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hey macfawlty and Tware- congrats on the first posts!!
Wild Pack of Asscracks, in all seriousness, fits well as a name for a street team if one is desired, imo. We all know it is a nastee tune, but as a title of something, it almost embodies the madness that this group of musicians is able to pass on to the audience who then catch the Tribal Funk Affliction and have seen the Psygn, yada, yada, yada.......
my .o2
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Do you guys pay for the handbills? how much do they charge you at Kinkos?
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No handbills...
Handbills with discs on the other hand :):):):):):):):):):):):)
That\'s my promotional strategy-of-choice for the S.F. shows. I\'m probably going to be spending a big portion of my weekend deciding on the tracks for a sampler, then burning the entire 100-disk spindle I purchased.
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EASTER EGGS, EASTER EGGS!!! (which i shamefully havent sent out yet)
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EASTER EGGS, EASTER EGGS!!! (which i shamefully havent sent out yet)
In order to reach more potential fans, I\'m limiting the distribution to one cd per handbill. I\'d love to give people complete shows and 3-disk Easter Eggs, though a compilation of good live tunes should do the trick. I may even buy more disks once my first hundred are gone, though I\'m sure burning 100 disks will be a long process.
I\'m trying to strike a balance between funk, epic rock, etc. I think I\'m going to outline my sampler by listing my favorite renditions of a bunch of tunes then selecting the best from there.
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1/26/01 anybody????? ;)
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Do you guys pay for the handbills? how much do they charge you at Kinkos?
:cough:work:cough:
other than that i pay for everything i give out
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I would just hand out discs and be done with it.... BEST PROMO EVER, plus we\'re not killing trees.
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^^you\'d have to give a track list too though, and that\'s on dead trees
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Not necessarily... Anyone who really cares would hop online and check out the setlist.
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just put a .info on it and a post on here a thread or whatever with track dates, track names and a link to the archiev.
ya cd\'s is the way to go, i know hence my grassroots thread. I\'ll burn discs all night but i only have so much money to just throw around.
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The key is to buy the cheapest generic crap out there. You\'ll get some coasters, but at the same time saving a tons of money.
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if i get handed a free cd at a show, i\'m not really gonna put any effort into it. if it ain\'t all on the disc or on a sleeve, then odds are i\'m not gonna find out.
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I would just hand out discs and be done with it.... BEST PROMO EVER, plus we\'re not killing trees.
yeah the plastic the cd is made out of is so much better for the environment than paper after its discarded.... :biggrin:
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he\'s got a point......
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The key is to buy the cheapest generic crap out there. You\'ll get some coasters, but at the same time saving a tons of money.
not necessarily. i never pay more than 7.99 for a 100 spindle of good cd-rs.
If you are looking for dvd+rs check out ESA brand at circuit city. they arent that expensive when they are on sale.
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Well PERSONALLY cd\'s make me happier than books... Plus Trees give off the oxygen that the burning plastics take away!!
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read a book from time to time I love em, come on a teacher who doesn\'t liike to read???
just finished the Johnny Cash bio, now reading Vonegut: Hocus Pocus and the 25th Hour, forget the authors name
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Glad to see this thread heading in the right direction.
There are no wrong ideas here. The fact is we can literally combine forces. Those that can flier and those that want to make a few cds. Hit up some shows together and boom, you get promo done and who knows you might make a friend or two. Even if you only burnt 3-5 discs and handed them out to people at the shows you go to and it will get around.
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I\'m just fucking around... All I do is read ever since I was a young boy. I just like cd\'s more than books!!
Just finished "Running With Scissors" last week. Choppy writing, but entertaining, trashy and shocking. Now I\'m perusing through my various music therapy books, trying to get some inspiration for a possible future profession.
Spacey, that\'s all I did back in the 01-03 dayz...
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funky spunks
kangaroos with flyers
wake up in a promo
great big flyering fans in the sky
jedi\'s
Im really bad at this...I still like B\'fam
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wake up in a promo :lol:
I like it!
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burnt white toast
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The Breakfast Brigade is the only logical choice. nothing else sounds good or makes sense.
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The Breakfast Brigade is the only logical choice. nothing else sounds good or makes sense.
I dont like Breakfast Brigade...its so...blah. I really think it should be something a little more creative
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The Breakfast Brigade reminds me of that Mighty Mighty Bosstones song "Noise Brigade"..
I like Garcian Assholes..
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The Breakfast Brigade is the only logical choice. nothing else sounds good or makes sense.
I dont like Breakfast Brigade...its so...blah. I really think it should be something a little more creative
its definitely not the most creative, but its also important that people know what the street team is doing. remember a while back when everyone here was confused about what team red bull was? i dont think anyone would know what the funky spunks were up to just based on the name.
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The Breakfast Brigade is the only logical choice. nothing else sounds good or makes sense.
I dont like Breakfast Brigade...its so...blah. I really think it should be something a little more creative
its definitely not the most creative, but its also important that people know what the street team is doing. remember a while back when everyone here was confused about what team red bull was? i dont think anyone would know what the funky spunks were up to just based on the name.
I dont think that any of my ideas are good. I think that B\'fam is a great one. People will want to help out and be part of the fam. Its not like it would be hard to join up to help. If people dont want to or cant help, it will not mean that they are not part of the collective. We are not gonna scare anyone away by calling the promotion crew family. we are all family...embrace it. feel the love ;)
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we are all family...embrace it. feel the love ;)
i agree with you on that, but this is a name for the GRASSROOTS team, not the family. B-fam already exists, theres no doubt about that.
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this is a toughy.
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Can we put "family" in the upper echelon of trite hippie catchwords along with "right on", "sweet", "nice", and "headdie" or is it still on the second tier along with "kind", "bro/brah", "dank", and "kids". Either way I could do without it.
Forget all the other names I thought of. "Wolfman\'s Disciples" is my final answer.
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lol
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hey! i say right on a lot... thats the only one of those phrases i use on a regular basis so i guess i\'m doing ok.
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right on, brah!
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I still like B\'Fam, but just The Wild Pack is much better than tagging on the Asscracks to the end...it is so heatty to not be hetty nowadays, you find examples of it everywhere. I for one like to be trite.
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The Wild Pack reminds me of a bunch of greasers looking to rough up some socs.
How about Da One Hitterz, brah!!!!
or
Garcian Assholes
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"Team Breakfast, GUY"
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Balanced Breakfast
Promo Squad
Servers
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"Team Breakfast, GUY"
I like it.
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Frankly Break Fest
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On further reflection of the matter i believe the name should be proffesional sounding. I say this because i plan to add it to my resume and send it out to all the internships i am applying for this summer. i know that is sort of selfserving, but honestly this could either make or break some of my options for the summer and i\'m sure someone else might want to use it as experience in promotion, so i think we need to decide soon and decide responsibly. so here are a few of the most professional sounding ones i came across/added to:
The Breakfast Street Team
The B\'fam street team
The "B" Street Team
B\'fam Promo Squad
Team Breakfast
Team Breakfast promo squad
Breakfast Brigade
i know all of these are lil plain but personally i don\'t really care what we call it because i think i\'m just gonna write whatever sounds/looks good on my resume when its all said and done. just putting it out there for anyone who might have the same concerns as i do
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Continental breakfast brigade
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Continental breakfast brigade
love it!
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ditto
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Continental breakfast brigade
love it!
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:yay:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I think we have a winner!!!!
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thanks for the ideas, everyone!
i\'m gonna lock this thread now, while the band chooses the finalists. after they do, you\'ll see a poll where you can vote on the name.
stay tuned..