For the record.. the only "hit" they took for dropping Psychedelic from the Moniker happened in this immediate fan base. On all other levels going to the Breakfast was 100% the smartest thing they have done to help their careers.
Now don\'t misunderstand me. I DO NOT want the Breakfast to cease but if things become unsustainable... starting a new group with these musicians would still demand a listen from anyone appreciative of SER music.
As far as the Iron Horse shows... I wasn\'t there but logic dictates that the 1st run w/ a new member who has had little time to really learn the songs coupled with the fact that there was a theme... Maybe not the best time to intoduce a new fan. If someone is that turned off to never give em another shot... Fuck em! We don\'t need them around here anyway. Tell them to wait for the next Deep Banana Blackout reunion.
Speaking to your first point, that "hit" is exactly what I meant... in terms of fanbase. Can The Breakfast afford to lose more fans? I guess that\'s not a question for me to answer.
To your second point... there is so much SER music out there that people don\'t even know about. If certain members of The Breakfast were to start a new group they\'d have a few .info kids there but that\'s it. Talk about starting from the ground up?
And yeah I wish I could have dragged that many people out to Sully\'s or something but (unfortunately?) I live in Northampton and that\'s where my crew is at. So that\'s just the way it worked out. Since Matt stepped into the band pretty well right off the bat (yes I was there Vibes 07, he sounded great) and Dangle was wicked ser from the first note I was pretty optimistic that Stoops would be great as well.
To your last point. You may say you don\'t need \'em around here anyway. But I disagree. Maybe you don\'t know these kids, a lot of \'em are my festie crew and for the record they are absolutely dedicated fans to whatever bands they like. But now they\'re back on Bisco / Umphreys / Bassnectar / STS9 / DSO / Phil / Bobby / P-Groove (not RAQ, I don\'t know anyone who thinks they don\'t suck lol) tour and the only way they\'ll see Breakfast again is if they happen to camp out next to whatever stage Breakfast is playing at, and they are too fucked up to wander elsewhere. That\'s the truth. If Breakfast had put on a SER show at Iron Horse I could almost guarantee you a sell out for the next show and I doubt they would be playing at Iron Horse much longer.
After years of being the only one in my crew who gives a shite about Breakfast other than "oh yeah, their guitar player is pretty good but not as good as Jake Cinneger" I gave the band the best opp since Butterfield to win new fans in western Mass and it was totally blown.
Maybe you\'re right and they don\'t need these fans. Depends if Breakfast wants to play Sully\'s for life.
A "hit" round here isn\'t really a hit. We are die hard and we\'ll all be here no matter what. (maybe not you from the sound of it.. but most of us)
Being sentenced to Max Ceekdom is the band = of purgatory and the seeds for that have been sewn for years. This current crisis is not the catalyst.
I agree with Ryan.. I can\'t imagine the shows were as bad as you are making them out to be
I would NEVER say they don\'t need new fans but geez.. should they pander to few heads at 1 show. I wasn\'t crazy about the choice of themes but whatever.. they are kind of dorks ( i say this with the most affection for their dorkiness) and that\'s what they decided to do. It just so happens that you bring some peeps and they don\'t dig it. For you to say that
"the only way they\'ll see Breakfast again is if they happen to camp out next to whatever stage Breakfast is playing at, and they are too fucked up to wander elsewhere. That\'s the truth." Speaks to the kind of music snobbery that has been part of the problem since the bands inception.
If you want the truth..The name Psychedelic Breakfast was the biggest road block they ever faced coupled with a bullshit secondary market like CT. When they should have been thriving in the wave of the jamband movement ..we were being told promoters and fans alike wouldn\'t even listen because of the name. This band scratched and clawed their way to every good thing that happened. (correction: Someone scratched and clawed on their behalf but whatever..) It was brutally difficult and to be frank.. their work ethic wasn\'t always the best either... I digress.. flash forward..
Benevento Russo have like 3 bands.. MMW has a few ... members of Phish have other projects.. Biscuits, Umphrey\'s, Particle, the list goes on. The bands that do this not only start with a leg up but also expand the fan base immediately. Not that this is happening but no big E if it did. It would probably be slammin and some of those snobs would come back and listen cause the name would be something cool like.. TOMATOTRON
OK.. breathe... Wooosaaaa.....woooosaaaaa
