Re: [bomp] Fwd: NEW YEARS EVE! in NYC w/Little Steven

["Immortal Porpoises" <immortalporpoises@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guest list? You'd have to pay me a lot more than $300 to be anywhere near
Times Square on a New Year's Eve. 250,000 drunks going berserk listening to
Mariah Carey caterwauling in the freezing cold waiting for a ball of light
bulbs to slide down a flagpole while hoping this isn't the time they're in
Osama's crosshairs.

How do you get in? How do you get back out again? If you're not a city
resident or on a PATH line, where do you leave your car? What's the reward
for all that suffering? 5 bands you've already seen a dozen times and will
see another dozen times under less stressful and dangerous circumstances?

No thanks.

As far as ESPN, their angle in garage rock is about the same as Dunkin'
Donuts. They want subscribers, and they don't care what kind of music you
listen to as long as their brand name is on the ads. They're owned by
Disney, which owns a lot of the new Times Square, and ESPN already has other
commercial outlets in their parent company's new playground. Little Steven
doesn't have a social angle when it comes to promoting garage rock, he just
wants to give it a fair shot at becoming more popular and commercially
viable, which in turn means it ain't gonna just be for hipsters anymore.
Unfortunately, commercial viability comes with all the other trappings that
commercial viability comes with in any other area -- corporate sponsorship,
radio-friendly production values, too much of the pricetag lost in the
promotional budget, un-hip geography, and high prices.

Waddyagonnado? Start a revolution?

SG


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blair Buscareno" <blairb@mac.com>
To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [bomp] Fwd: NEW YEARS EVE! in NYC w/Little Steven


>
> The only way I'm going is if someone puts me on the guest list.
>
> I mean, it looks like the food will be good and all, but $300/person?
> YEESH!  Thing is, for a big Times Square area to-do on New Year's Eve,
> that's not an unreasonable price.  It's just unreasonable for anyone
> involved with cool rock'n'roll.  $300 is hardly an "underground" price.
>
> As to the ESPN involvement, well... The way I see it, MTV isn't really
> about music these days, so why should ESPN stick to sports?
>
>
> Jessica Port wrote:
>
> >it's THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!
> >How many people into the garage scene can afford this?
> >Oh and what's with the ESPN crap? I don't usually
> >associate sports with the scene, but perhaps I'm just
> >a bit close-minded. Just a ploy to get the masses
> >interested I assume.
> >Don't get me wrong though, I'd love to go.
> >-Jessica
> >
> >--- webmaster@littlesteven.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Date: 12 Dec 2005 17:23:46 -0500
> >>To: trashwoman63@yahoo.com
> >>From: webmaster@littlesteven.com
> >>Subject: NEW YEARS EVE! in NYC w/Little Steven
> >>
> >>Held out this long for your New Years plans? GOOD
> >>THING!
> >>
> >>ESPN's NEW YEAR'S EVE featuring Little Steven's
> >>Underground Garage
> >>@ Hard Rock Times Square, NYC
> >>December 31st 2005, 8:30pm - 2:00am
> >>
> >>Hosted by Little Steven and ESPN's Stuart Scott
> >>with performances by:
> >>
> >>NEW YORK DOLLS
> >>THE TROGGS ("Wild Thing")
> >>THE MOONEY SUZUKI
> >>THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS
> >>THE WOGGLES
> >>THE CHARMS
> >>
> >>Premium Open Bar All Night
> >>Passed Hors D'Oeurves
> >>3 Course Gourmet Buffet Dinner
> >>Continental Breakfast (upon departure)
> >>Champagne Toast at Midnight!
> >>
> >>Surprise Guests, Sports and Music Celebrities
> >>
> >>Dick Clark's got nothin' on 2006!
> >>
> >>TELEVISED LIVE ON ESPN and ESPN2!
> >>
> >>Limited tickets available on
> >>http://www.undergroundgarage.com
> >>Order thru undergroundgarage.com before December
> >>23rd using Paypal and get a free Davie Allan Xmas
> >>CD!.
> >>
> >>Tickets also available on Ticketmaster.com
> >>.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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