http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2624 Comments for "What Planet is This?" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2624 <p><a href="http://blog.teledyn.com/node/63"><img src="/mt/archives/ew_e2000.jpg" class="left"/></a>I had a long talk with a festival promoter today. He really wants us on his bill, but, y'see, there's a basic problem here: he offers that we "make our money" off "exposure to a tourist audience" which is fine and cool but <em>we ain't got nuthin' t' sell!</em> -- after probably an hour trying to explain the <i>anthropological imperative</i> of the community dynamics of a grounded music divest of status strata and legality ornamentation, I'm not certain I was any closer. "<i>ok, ok</i>" he says, and we agree <i>because its a charitable cause</i> but in the next breath he asks if we'd like to play a dinner club.</p> <p>What I <u>should</u> have said was "<i>Only if they stop eating, paint their faces and dance a dervish around the burning buffet tables.</i> But I didn't.</p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2624#comments bringing back amerika Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:35:57 -0400 mrG 2624 at http://blog.teledyn.com