[kj] The Complications opening for Killing Joke in Montreal

[GREG SLAWSON]

I remember in the old days of punk, in places like Boston (and LA, from the posters I've seen) there would be 3, 4, 5, or even more bands at a gig, for a reasonable price, w/no real headliner or opening bands. SST records bands were famous for this. And in Boston the garage/punk/power pop bands all collaborated and did gigs together, making for a real community atmosphere. These days music is much more segmented into sub-sub-sub genres, and there is less of a community feeling.
 

> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:42:11 -0600

> From: bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] The Complications opening for Killing Joke in Montreal

> 

> Yeah I pretty much qualified exactly what you just wrote when I said the 

> [opening] band "emailed [that] me as far as he knew they were still 

> pening for KJ in Montreal on the scheduled date. he had heard nothing 

> about a cancellation. And they're an opening band. Not that KJ can be 

> above fucking over their opening acts. :) I'm just saying - this one 

> opening band in Montreal had heard nothing about KJ canceling."

> 

> In other words, I wrote exactly nothing that disagrees with what you 

> felt the need to school me on I was just throwing it out there as a 

> piece of the puzzle, grasping at straws yet also saying, "Hey, here's 

> what I know, for what it's worth.". I didn't say "HEY THIS MEANS IT'S 

> STILL ON." At all. You wrote: "Most bands and their management couldn't 

> give a f(*& about some podunk opening band." Sadly, you are right. And 

> yet I had already said: "Not that KJ can be above fucking over their 

> opening acts," before you mentioned management's shit attitude.

> 

> I understand a lot of self important people could give a shit about 

> grassroots, "podunk," etc., opening bands, referred to with contempt and 

> derision often for no valid reason. Which sucks, and more's the pity. 

> Doesn't reflect well on how music managers treat people who help make 

> their industry possible. The industry they live off. Anyway, not even 

> sure what the point of your post was, since I qualified my own statement 

> pretty clearly.

> 

> -Oliver

> 

> fluw wrote:

> > oliver, just because they are opening for killing joke doesn't mean they

> > have the inside track.

> >

> > Most bands and their management couldn't give a f(*& about some podunk

> > opening band, and they will most likely only know what the general public

> > knows until the last moment 

> > 

> 

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