Team JoCo Emergency Action Message
OK, so it seems that Paul left a case of CDs at the Iron Horse last night (very surprising considering his natural state of control freakitude). Paul and Storm are now offering the “Paul and Storm Complete Prize Pack” to anyone who may be coming to the Johnny D’s show tonight from Northampton, provided they swing by the Iron Horse to get said case and bring it here.
My email is in my pocket most of the time, so if there’s anyone who can do this, email me and I’ll give you the details. Complete Prize Pack! (Contents TBD, but will include free/reimbursed admission to tonight’s Johnny D’s show for you & one companion, and probably a hug.)
Atlanta Show Added
Just added a show in Atlanta – that’s right, Georgia. November 9th at The Five Spot, 8:30 PM, with Paul and Storm. Tickets can be got through Ticketmaster (though they’re not on sale yet), and probably should if you want to be totally safe – the place holds about 180 and there are 125 demands on Eventful, so I’m guessing it will be a big crowd.
Georgia!
Size Doesn’t Matter
I knew ticket sales were low for the Burlington show last night, so I wasn’t surprised to see a smallish crowd. And it really does change the dynamic of a show – the energy level drops, everyone’s afraid to make noise, and that performer-audience feedback loop doesn’t generate as much heat as when there’s a huge mass of people. But as I said last night, the per capita enthusiasm levels were as high as ever (for which I commend the fine people of the great state of Vermont) so I think we all handled ourselves pretty well in the end. Thank you guys for keeping up your end of the bargain – I hope you didn’t mind me trying out some new stuff, but I thought it was better to work without a set list and just see what happened. And as they said in Casablanca, we’ll always have zombies.
Tonight the Iron Horse in Northampton. Onward!
Radiohead: What the?
Radiohead has announced that their new record “In Rainbows” will be sold as a digital download with flexible pricing – fans can choose how much they want to pay for it. They’re also selling a physical item, a kind of superbox with a bonus CD (and some LP “records”!) for 80 bucks. There’s no label, there’s no distribution deal. I think this is a great move for them, and at the very least it’s an experiment the rest of us can learn from – I hope they’ll be forthcoming about the numbers they get. If I had to guess I’d say this plan will get the music to more ears, possibly generate less gross revenue on digital sales, but vastly improve their bottom line – their profit margin is going to be a lot higher than it would be with a label/distributor, plus this is likely to drive plenty more people to live shows and merchandise.
This is what you’ll get when you mess with us…
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