Hi Jamie ! It was a great bassguitar, I really enjoy playing it........;-) It's really strange to hear about this to us Danes Us and Canada is almost the same country. cheers Fjeder shiner22 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jaimie Vernon" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:06 AM Subject: Re: Why we will not be attending IPO again this year :-( > At Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:48:58 Jocelyn wrote: > > >~~~~i am and have continued to be SO confused by this. > > isn't the united states FRIENDLY with canada? since > >when do we have to be afraid about musicians crossing > >borders? i thought all you needed was an ID or > >something. really. i don't get this. why canada? i'm > >not thinking canadians really want to stay here....so > >they can *not* get health insurance? > > We're at a loss to explain it either. It's become MORE difficult the farther > away from 9/11 we get. > > We sent a contingent down to IPO L.A. in August 2001 without incident; New > York in December of 2001 without incident; IPO Chicago in April 2002 without > incident....and then in December 2002 it started. Half my backing band was > sent away at the Kingston/New York crossing on our way to IPO New York that > year. The guys had to stash their gear in a nearby town and cross undercover > as TOURISTS! We got word from our boys just before crossing with the second > half of the acts. When we got to the border I had to tell them I was taking > my friends SHOPPING! This went over fine until they opened the van up and > discovered my bass guitar. Thinking on my toes I told the guards that I was > planning on selling the bass to a member of Shiner22 (who were on the bill > with us in New York). > > That was good enough for them. > > Another act of mine, The Killer Dwarfs, tried crossing in the Fall and were > admitted only after paying $1000 each per MAN for an 11 date mini-tour. > > In all honesty, this most likely has nothing to do with musicians and > everything to do with politics. Since discovering Al Qaeda operatives were > once trained in Montreal, and since our government refused to support the > war in Iraq, and since we refuse to budge on the lumber trade issues (and > fishing quotas, and oil claims), and we would not cop to the Madcow fiasco > it has been open season for Canadians. The SARS epidemic kinda sealed it > last May. Not that ANY of this has to do with music, but stressed out > security at the borders is making ANY issues with Canadian citizens a > priority. > > I'm sure there are some acts getting through down there just fine (our own > Dave Rave has all his walking papers and has been able to travel freely for > the better part of a year), but I'm not willing to put an entire roster of > acts on the line to try and get to the next IPO (which is Chicago). David > Bash and I have discussed this and it's a shame. I think we have a lot to > offer the power pop community and this non-specified embargo hurts economies > on both sides of the border. > > And because of this, I am not willing to invest in bringing IPO to Toronto > (and believe me, the clubs I've spoken to here are all for it!!)...the > potential for it to be wiped out by non-availability of talent due to border > issues is too high :-( > > Jaimie Vernon, > Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca > >