I post tour itineraries for the Greyboy Allstars and sometimes other
music related comments, if I'm feeling confident enough. I read all of the
messages that come through acid-jazz. I can keep up my end of a music discussion
with the guys in the band now, which I couldn't do before I subscribed to this
list. I've paid money to go see the Charlie Hunter Trio because of the discussion
on this list and I confiscated the local college radio station's Jamiroqui
promo cd because I'd heard such good things here (the station was going to
throw it out). I don't have any financial connection with Greyboy Allstars, but
I am engaged to the keyboard player, Robert Walter (who gets squirmy whenever I
slip on Jamiroqui).
I've been posting the Allstars itineraries for months now, along with
some other friend of the band up in Berkeley, California who I've never met. I
never before received a complaint. On the contrary, I usually get private messages
from people about the band's new releases or occasionally questions about booking
gigs (which I don't do, so don't email me). The band all knows that I do
this, and they like to hear what people in the scene say about their music
and tours. Although they do sometimes make fun of me for being a computer geek.
I don't consider this advertising, it's more like sharing information with
your peers. They've met a few people on tour in Europe who said they'd been
wanting to see them and heard they were coming because of the acid-jazz mailing
list - which I think pretty rad.
To correct the earlier mistake that led to the last five or six messagess
about this - fogcity doesn't have a connection with Greyboy Allstars so the
positive comments that were posted from that address were not some kind of
subversive promo scheme that we'd choreographed. Infact, Greyboy does manage
and produce for the Greyboy Allstars, but he's also DJ with his very own, unrelated
label deal. (Greyboy hardly ever even goes on tours with them - they usually hire
a local DJ.) The Allstars don't have any direct connection with Ubiquity
OR fogcity. Their records are released on Greyboy's own private label, Greyboy
Records. Clear? People actually do like them who aren't going to marry them and
aren't on their payroll (if they had a payroll).
I told Robert you were a fan, mr. fogcity, and he's going to be looking for you
at Elbo Room tonite - introduce yourself and say hi for me.
-Teresa
If you've got any comments about this, go ahead and send them to me personally
cause I think everyone is getting sick of comments about comments. This address
is not direct, so mail me at teresa@ganesh.ucsd.edu
Sorry if you think I wasted your space - I tried to make the content of this message
clear in the Subject line.
-T