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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
| Subject | =?US-ASCII?B?UkU6IFJlOiBCYXNoaW5nIElQTw==?= |
| Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:30:21 -0500 |
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>>>...and isn't this what is inheritedly wrong with IPO?
There's an old saying: "You get what you pay for."
Some bands probably shouldn't be playing this
festival.
>>>That said, I've attended a few of these and
the amount of discoveries I had FAR outweighed the few
"crap bands" that played.
Isn't that a bit of a contradiction? Maybe it's just semantics, but saying something is 'inherently wrong' implies that it's broken, with few redeeming qualities, and those positive ones are far outweighed by the negative qualities. (If I'm not exactly right, please don't post flippin' dictionary entries of 'inherently'.)
However, according to your second statement, the positives outweigh the negatives. Which based on the rest of your entry, sounds like you were trying to say.
IPO is great, but flawed, like anything else. I've been to a bunch of IPO's, with and without Splitsville playing, and have always enjoyed them. Of course, there is always a band that's a 'weak link' of the bunch. I'm sure David has sat there and said the same thing to himself (or said something along the lines of 'Yikes, these guys are not nearly as good as advertised').
With 8 bands playing, who expects to go 8 for 8? I could always use a restroom break, anyway.
And as for getting what you pay for...what's the usual charge at the door? 7-10 bucks? I'll take it. And not to mention that with the ones I've been to (Chicago, NYC, Boston) the location is always in a happening, centralized part of town.
>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:14:12
>
>I never thought I'd see the day that David Bash got
>bashed on Audities. And with an attack on the
>business of IPO? Whatever one may think of the
>festival or certain acts that fill the bill, the
>David Bash I know would never do something so
>patently offensive. If there is anyone in the pop
>community more deserving of respect for his
>tireless support of the pop music community, I
>don't know who that is.
>
>Alan
>---- David Bash <bashpop@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> --- In audities@yahoogroups.com, Dan Franke
><deer_lick@...> wrote:
>>
>> > Playing the Devil's advocate here, so don't
>completely
>> > crucify me, but this sounds a lot like a Bill
>O'Reilly
>> > "No Spin" spin. Maybe you really don't want to
>offend
>> > anyone, because you might want them to play one
>of
>> > your IPO's?
>>
>> Dan, I won't completely crucify you, but all I
>can say is that anyone who
>> thinks that way about me doesn't know me as a
>person. Plus, in none of my
>> posts about this subject did I mention IPO at
>all; I was talking about
>> myself as a journalist and a maker of lists.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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