Gun-slung-it

[Lost Johnny]

On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:34:10 -0500, mary <maryann.sullivan1 at VERIZON.NET> wrote:

>Having been on Hawkwind tour I really know what you mean.
>Mary
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>Subject: Re: Gun-slung-it
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>Wholehearted  agree,
>
>I play in a pub & club band, we pedal 60's garage punk and r&b, we
>don't do it for the money,  we do it cos we can all play bloody well
>and we just love playing live, and to keep this music alive,
>We restrict ourselves to about 24 / 30 gigs a year, playing round the
>south west. We played Bristol last night to about 50 people and
>>case, job done.
>>
>> Steve.
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 28/02/2009 20:23:04 GMT Standard Time,
>> Thaiboysexpress at AOL.COM writes:
>>
>> Had the  none too pleasant spectacle of watching Alan Daveys
>> Gunslinger play
>>
>> to about 20 people in a less than salubrious pub in the midlands
>> last  night.
>> We  did wonder if he looks out from the stage and quietly  thinks
>> "Ooops".
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                                                         None of the bands
,Spaceritual ,Hawkwind ,Alan Davey ,are exactly drawing "great" crowds live
. They all play small venues with small crowds.  A big part of that is the
money problems from the economy ,and especially no major record labels to
fund publicity and promote and pay for tours .But also the fact that in the
UK ,Nik's Spaceritual crowd won't go see Dave's Hawkwind and Dave's Hawkwind
crowd won't go see Nik's Spaceritual . And Dave's Hawkwind fans won't go see
Alan's  Gunslinger and Alan's fans won't go Dave's Hawkwind . And that
thinking hurts all three bands big time in ticket and record sales and money
coming in . Come anywhere around Chicago ,and I'll go see all three .