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|    Message 858 of 1,456    |
|    Ouisie to JimD    |
|    Re: The Gig from Hell    |
|    25 Nov 17 06:38:39    |
      From: someone@anywheret.net              "JimD" wrote in message news:2017112323554683983-email@nowherecom...              > That's an interesting idea. All a band needs to do is find an audience       > that likes exactly what the band plays.              Just play FRESH Music Well and your audiences will find you!              > That is how the big names work. They write songs, people come to hear them       > play. Life is good.              Then life is Awesome, and that's the objective!              > Except that isn't the world I live in.              Then it's probably time to Move! ;)              > Turns out our audiences expect us to play songs THEY like, instead of       > songs WE like.              Good thing they don't expect you to play hip hop!       Or to put it another way, good thing you didn't CHOOSE audiences that would       expect you to play it!              > So that's the problem, we're playing the wrong songs for the wrong       > audiences.              Only question is WHY?              > Still, I get payed well to do this, so I do. It's not a perfect       > arrangement, but I live with it.              See how Filthy Lucre Corrupts and Ruins!              > ( a little confession ... we do play songs we like )              I should hope so, otherwise what would be the point?              > Huh ? How does that work. If we like the songs we play then what's the       > deal ? Well, the deal is, we work for audiences that like the same music       > we do.              That's the idea, but I didn't know you like dance tunes.              > They like it, we like it, turns out that works for everybody. Except       > people who don't like what we play. But they don't come to our gigs much,       > so I'm just gonna ignore them.                     Jim              Nothing wrong with that.              Ouisie              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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