The Song Fight Bulletin Board

ooh drums....

Noah, TVIYH, are y'all thinkin' what I'm thinking??

this is shaping up to be a real big group thing
the group of us should probably make an email list or something.

looks like i will be needing a drummer for my stuffs. i will probably also run some percussiony things (particularly effected ones) from the laptop.

oh, here's another question. do people normally sell cds at these events?
-bill

Oh, also, I can play synths on things for people. I don't think I mentioned this before. However I don't really read music per se, so keep that in mind
-bill

What kind of audience will there be at this show? Just friends and family or what.

Niveous wrote:What kind of audience will there be at this show? Just friends and family or what.

Friends of Bjam (obviously I am Billy-No-Mates so I have no friends )
Partners and accompanees of other SF'rs that are coming
Bjam and I will be making up some posters for very local distribution in the area to advertise that the event is happening so we will welcome walk up audience.

If anyone would like to use their graphic capabilities like abecedarian did for LA otherwise we will use the exquisite artisitic skills of Bjam (queen of many talents!)

With regards to costs our plan was to charge $5 for adults and $4 for students. SF'rs obviously get in for free but contributions will be very welcome if we are a little short in covering the immediate cost.

If anyone wants to pimp their merchandise at the event that's absolutely fine by us.

Okay we have tried to accomodate all requests and suggestions so here is the latest final draft of the set-list. Please confirm that these times and sequence suit all your needs. We have left some space at the end for some potential late special guests but otherwise we will just subtly expand everyones times to accomodate.

(Actually Bjam says if you are not listed and we have overlooked you its because you suck and we dont want you to play....[/jk] Love Bjam)

ALSO PLEASE CONFIRM THE ARTIST NAME SO WE CAN FINALIZE PUBLICITY MATERIALS.

Start End Artist
7:00 7:15 Intro/Bjam
7:15 7:30 Raw Strength & Courage
7:30 7:45 Brick Pig
7:45 8:00 Heuristics Inc.
8:00 8:15 Noah
8:15 8:30 Niveous
8:30 8:45 Luke Henley
8:45 9:00 BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!
9:00 9:15 Raised by Wolves
9:15 9:30 The Landfills
9:30 9:45 Feldspar
9:45 10:00 Frankie Big Face
10:00 10:15 TBA/Rock out Compilation time
10:15 10:30 TBA/Rock out Compilation time

Niveous wrote:ooh drums....

Noah, TVIYH, are y'all thinkin' what I'm thinking??

i think so, brain, but how would we get a swim-suit sized for a hippo?

:-)

man, drums would be awesome...

- njm

p.s.

stueym wrote:8:00 8:15 Noah

works just fine for me.

stueym wrote:9:30 9:45 feldspar

That's fine. Though if you could capitalize the F, then that would be great. Feldspar.

I generally write Brick Pig as two words. I am fine with my assigned timeslot.

Thank you.

For what it is worth, I'm coming down just for the fun of it and will happily play any instruments as may be needed. I do ask that you let me know beforehand so I have a few moments to learn what I should be doing.

Also, merchandise isn't all that common but if you have CDs or T-shirts or comic books or whatnot, bring 'em along for sale. It's never been a problem in the past.

stueym wrote: 9:15 9:30 Adjuster

Excellent. I will be playing under my usual "group" name of "The Landfills" (w/o the quotes, of course... *smile*).

My timeslot rocks. If I need to be flexible, that rocks, though, too. In general, just getting to hang out, see everybody, and do a couple songs, regardless of the time slot, rocks.

Thanks for all your work in puttin' this show together. Did I mention that this is gonna rock?

WeaselSlayer wrote:I could hit them drums for you I guess.

That would rock. TVIYH has offered to play bass, and Bjam has offered to do the guitar bit, so w/ you onboard I think I've got things covered for a "The Landfills" "Too Goth to Rock" moment.

Oh, yes. I will count to four.

stueym wrote: 7:45 8:00 Heuristics inc

I go by this: Heuristics Inc. (with capital I and .)
The US Trademark Office may list that the . is not part of my name, but I do generally use it.
My timeslot is good. I see we have clipped to 15mins now, so I'll have to trim my setlist a bit too. I think I know what I'll drop.
-bill

HeuristicsInc wrote: I see we have clipped to 15mins now

Yeah. Lots more people than previously thought. And we figured we'd give a large amount of time for screw ups and any time problems we may encounter. Bring some music for the end of the night, and if you feel like an inpromptu song, and there's time left, we can all have a group singalong.

Can you tell I'm paranoid that we'll run out of time?

Bjam wrote:Can you tell I'm paranoid that we'll run out of time?

that's fine; invariably nearly everything will take longer than you expect it will.

adjuster wrote:Oh, yes. I will count to four.

but of course. wouldn't have it any other way.

Bjam wrote: Although somewhere to host them might be nice. I have webspace, but I don't know if I want to put a couple of hours of mp3s up there.

Did anybody respond to this? I can host the mp3s.
I have a lot of webspace.
-bill

HeuristicsInc wrote:

Bjam wrote: Although somewhere to host them might be nice. I have webspace, but I don't know if I want to put a couple of hours of mp3s up there.

Did anybody respond to this? I can host the mp3s.
I have a lot of webspace.
-bill

Done and Done. I will record, edit and master, then can fedex them down to you on a DVD. Cool stuff!

i won't be at this (but i hope to hear it at some point) but i'd love to hear frankie, stu, and brick pig do at least one song together. i'll bet it would be really good too.

jack wrote:i won't be at this (but i hope to hear it at some point) but i'd love to hear frankie, stu, and brick pig do at least one song together. i'll bet it would be really good too.

How about "Tiny Room"? I can bring my fiddle (I promise to keep the volume down) and we can divvy up some harmony vocals. I'm hoping to get together with Bethany beforehand to rehearse some stuff so maybe we can work that out then.

frankie big face wrote:

jack wrote:i won't be at this (but i hope to hear it at some point) but i'd love to hear frankie, stu, and brick pig do at least one song together. i'll bet it would be really good too.

How about "Tiny Room"? I can bring my fiddle (I promise to keep the volume down) and we can divvy up some harmony vocals. I'm hoping to get together with Bethany beforehand to rehearse some stuff so maybe we can work that out then.

Bjam and I discussed and I am totally up for some rehearsal (remote and on the day) to put together a bigger sound for some of your stuff. I was also thinking of adding another verse to 'fresh dog' and looking for volunteers. You up for it?

frankie big face wrote:

jack wrote:i won't be at this (but i hope to hear it at some point) but i'd love to hear frankie, stu, and brick pig do at least one song together. i'll bet it would be really good too.

How about "Tiny Room"? I can bring my fiddle (I promise to keep the volume down) and we can divvy up some harmony vocals. I'm hoping to get together with Bethany beforehand to rehearse some stuff so maybe we can work that out then.

I am amenable to any collaborative scenario anyone would like to propose. It's just the kind of guy I am....

off topic - but brick pig, my wife wants to know if you're named after the three little pigs, the one that built a house of brick. clever.

also, it looks like i have a band together. that rocks. thanks to the group!
-bill