Local Music Scene ???
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Blues, Country, Cover Bands, Metal and a decent sized variety of good tribute bands. I live near a college town with a good Jazz program. Most of those Jazz students have bands in almost every genre. Reggae and Jam bands will never die in college town it seems.
A few "metal" friends said that it is hard to break in that scene because no band has 3+ hours of original music. Covers in that genre are kind of frowned upon. You end up playing shows with 3 to 5 other bands, so you also can't make enough money doing it to supplement an income. One of the country bands I was in rented a practice space several times. The facility had other bands practicing there as well. We were always the only non-metal band.
A few "metal" friends said that it is hard to break in that scene because no band has 3+ hours of original music. Covers in that genre are kind of frowned upon. You end up playing shows with 3 to 5 other bands, so you also can't make enough money doing it to supplement an income. One of the country bands I was in rented a practice space several times. The facility had other bands practicing there as well. We were always the only non-metal band.
growing up i wasn't exposed to country music 'cept for that chanel on tv that nobody ever watched, untill i graduated highschool i couldn't name a country artist other that garth brooks. and i hated it. when i joined the military i was in for a shock. when people would quote country being the most popular music in the united states i always thought it was all old people or an outdated figure or just a lie altogether. i must say the 4-1/2 years i spent in the airforce was sometimes painful. i can listen to some johnny cash or some other old stuff that had feeling and a sense of masculinity but the no-no shit that i was exposed to was IMHO every bit as bad as screeemo bullshit. i want to know when did americas youth become universally a big bunch of sissies?
i was at a party and johnny cash was playing on the radio, i was like "i can deal with this" and some guy is like "what are we listening to?" so im thinking " well maybe we can get some rock or whatever on" then the guy was like "put on kenny chesney" and i was like :doh: these kids want to be country but they dont want to be old country, WTF
well any way my local music scene sux. there are a bunch of cover bands that play every top 40 song from the 90's and 2000's. some are better at it than others. i think the firehouse shows are still going on but when i went to those in high school it was mostly hardcore with some punk and some college bands, now i think its all screemo. i grew up with a bunch of talented guys but they mostly wound up going to college in cities with better music scenes and staying there.
i was at a party and johnny cash was playing on the radio, i was like "i can deal with this" and some guy is like "what are we listening to?" so im thinking " well maybe we can get some rock or whatever on" then the guy was like "put on kenny chesney" and i was like :doh: these kids want to be country but they dont want to be old country, WTF
well any way my local music scene sux. there are a bunch of cover bands that play every top 40 song from the 90's and 2000's. some are better at it than others. i think the firehouse shows are still going on but when i went to those in high school it was mostly hardcore with some punk and some college bands, now i think its all screemo. i grew up with a bunch of talented guys but they mostly wound up going to college in cities with better music scenes and staying there.
We've got a pretty vibrant open mic scene in Houston. Lots of blues guys, lots of country, rock, polka and everything in between.
I only have videos on Facebook so I don't know if this will work or not.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=421712831948&subj=8328685
I think if you log into Facebook, assuming you have an account, you can see it without having to friend me or my mom (it was posted under her account as she's the one that has the nifty little video camera and time to edit it).
I only have videos on Facebook so I don't know if this will work or not.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=421712831948&subj=8328685
I think if you log into Facebook, assuming you have an account, you can see it without having to friend me or my mom (it was posted under her account as she's the one that has the nifty little video camera and time to edit it).
I'm not sure that this is completely on-topic, but some of my really good friends just won some contest where they're going to be the next freecreditscore.com band. They'll be in all the commercials and everyone will soon have all of their ridiculous jingles in their heads.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rikFN5fmXM[/youtube]
Gibson is somehow involved in the contest and so they're getting this Gibson prize package with over $10,000 worth of guitars. Which equates to about 35 Agile guitars. :icon_biggrin:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rikFN5fmXM[/youtube]
Gibson is somehow involved in the contest and so they're getting this Gibson prize package with over $10,000 worth of guitars. Which equates to about 35 Agile guitars. :icon_biggrin:
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I can't confirm, but have heard, Tejano and Cumbia music is a top seller in the U.S. and has the most listeners.
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Good for them! Lotta people see those things.
Yeah, I was thinking, what's that, an unfinished Les Paul Jr.? How are they going to divide that up? Put it on eBay and split up the $75 left after fees? That won't even cover the income taxes on a $10K hit <grin>
Speaking of income taxes on prizes...
I used to work for a major corporation that was big on prize contests and other sorts of incentives for their sales people, and sometimes the prizes could be quite ridiculous for the top performers. One year, the salesman for Ford Motor Company hit the big time on damn near every contest they had, because it happened to be the same year FoMoCo was rebuilding a number of local plants. He won luxury cruise trips, some big cash awards, a Lincoln Continental, all sorts of stuff that was worth literally 10s of thousands of dollars. Problem was, at the end of the year he had to pony up to the IRS for all that stuff and hadn't paid any taxes on it to start with, so he got hit for about $22K over and above what he'd normally pay in a reasonable year. Yeah, I know, cry me a river, but still. That's a helluva hit to take when you aren't expecting it, and the IRS doesn't have a sense of humor about such things, nor a payment plan. I think he ended up having to sell the car to get right with them.
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Yeah, I was thinking, what's that, an unfinished Les Paul Jr.? How are they going to divide that up? Put it on eBay and split up the $75 left after fees? That won't even cover the income taxes on a $10K hit <grin>
Speaking of income taxes on prizes...
I used to work for a major corporation that was big on prize contests and other sorts of incentives for their sales people, and sometimes the prizes could be quite ridiculous for the top performers. One year, the salesman for Ford Motor Company hit the big time on damn near every contest they had, because it happened to be the same year FoMoCo was rebuilding a number of local plants. He won luxury cruise trips, some big cash awards, a Lincoln Continental, all sorts of stuff that was worth literally 10s of thousands of dollars. Problem was, at the end of the year he had to pony up to the IRS for all that stuff and hadn't paid any taxes on it to start with, so he got hit for about $22K over and above what he'd normally pay in a reasonable year. Yeah, I know, cry me a river, but still. That's a helluva hit to take when you aren't expecting it, and the IRS doesn't have a sense of humor about such things, nor a payment plan. I think he ended up having to sell the car to get right with them.
yeah, now that i think about, it may have been $15,000 worth of Gibsons, because i think one of them was telling me they were getting 17 guitars total. Also, apparently they are now contractually obligated to never play Fenders. Not even in private. :icon_scratch: They didn't seem to care about any of the other guitar companies, but no Fenders. Which is a bummer, because the singer has this gorgeous '73 thinline that was his #1, and now it's going to collect dust i guess.
Cagey, i didn't even think about the tax thing. I wonder if they've thought about it. Maybe i should mention that to them... :sad:
Cagey, i didn't even think about the tax thing. I wonder if they've thought about it. Maybe i should mention that to them... :sad:
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I'm not sure that sort of an agreement is enforceable, but I'm not a lawyer so I can't say for sure. If it is, I'd tell them to jam it up their ass and I wouldn't take the prize. Gibson makes some nice stuff, but I'd be damned if I agreed to something like that with anybody, especially Gibson. That's just nuts.
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