Summer's here and the time is right...to go see a show...

[Stonehenge]

JRL, if you don't want to talk about the new way of doing things, that's ok.

[JRL]

Well, I think I have been. LIke my client using FREE downloads of his songs to promote his shows, where his bread and butter is still selling his whole cataloge of work.

This is all just my take on it that comes from many years seeing the different ways people create a musical career that works for them at all levels. And since me and my associates are involved with making this work right now, trying to make a life out of our creativity,trying to eke a living out, my views are gonna be colored by that. Technology has been a great tool, some are much more savy than I to say the least.  I just look at your proposal, and I don't see where it's gonna help me. Believe me I am very pragmatic about the business I am in, you have to be in anything to survive let alone succeed. I am not so much thinking about building up a world wide fan base, it's all I can do to keep things rolling like they are. If I can keep on like I am for another 10-15 years I will be thrilled, what a ride it's been.

[Stonehenge]

I don't have all the details worked out myself. I'm just talking in general about sites like Rhapsody, the success of napster and other systems. I'm thinking that giving people a free taste might bring in some customers. Like at a cookout. I wouldn't give them the whole tune, just a part to get them hooked. It might bring new appreciation for your musical style

[laughingwillow]

And you can take the buck-fifty that bidness model produces for 99% of independent bands out there straight to the bank.

We can talk all we want, but jrl is using the music bidness to put food on his table and has been for years. He has first hand knowledge of artists using the model stoney says is the future now. Most artists currently won't earn enough money using this touted model to make it more than a point of conversation.

I'm still not sure how you can justify insulting jrl with claims he doesn't want to talk about your ideas when its clear he just doesn't want to be insulted.

Btw, I'm putting you on notice for insulting a community member. This WILL go down on your permanent record....

lw

[laughingwillow]

phone just ring -
- ding-a-ling -
I put down the blount
long enough to answer that thang..

yo, bro, I've got two extra tickets
to the Snoop Doggs show -
and we didn't have to think long
before saying "hell yes, lets go!"

NOw I got thirty minutes to roll -
a half hour to spin the sacrament
before taking a stroll DOWN THE BLOCK
to where the doggy style action's at.

Thirty minutes to spin this joint.
Synchronize watches now....

lw

[laughingwillow]

Oops. That one ended early for me.

Tonight I got got. Damn, I even had a little tip off and head start. But there was two of them, and it didn't appear to be their first hippie rodeo. Next thing you know, I have one white shirt under each arm. Nothing is said the whole time, but dudes sure wanted to get my arms lifted higher than the good lord designed them. There was a loong perp walk before we get to the door and #1 white shirt orders me to show him the contents in my hands. I show the guy a lighter and he asks me why I wasn't complaining the whole way if that was all I had in my possession? I told him I was prolly too high to complain and that seemed to seal the deal. bu-hahaha!

Man, we only live two blocks from the venue. I might change my shirt, put on a hat and go back...........

round two... ding!

lw

[laughingwillow]

Phil in da park tonight for phree!

Phamly and phrends will be bicycling in from all corners of the state and beyond.....

Sniff....

what's that smell?

Say, I think I smell dirty hippies!!!!

lw

[senorsalvia]

Have a great time and don't forget that we  here, back 'at 'da ranch, fully expect, nay, demand that your bicycling prowess puts Lance Armstrong to shame     and yes, in regards to your team managements query:  you will be afforded an .0232 percentage point roundup in deference to the extra testicular weight.. :wink:

[laughingwillow]

We're back from a date with Phil...

It was a real interesting day. We got to see a bunch of friends that only get together once a year or so. The park wasn't too packed and Phil kicked a little ass.

Anyway, the show was in Sioux City at a beautiful bandstand with views that fall away in a few directions. Phil came to our corner of the prairie. A place we know intimately.

We spent the day catching up with friends. A pal and I took in the views on a walk before Phil's set while sacrament became active and ended up strolling through the rose garden behind the venue. We mosied past a line of tour busses and I wondered out loud which one belonged to Phil. Just then the door of a bus to our right opened and an OLD lady stepped out with jackie right behind. He took one look at the two of us and made like he was hopping back onto that bus. But then he turned around and sort of took shelter behind the woman, clutching  his guitar case in both hands, looking like a deer in head lights. I smiled and said, "kick some ass tonight, eh jackie?" That seemed to snap him out  of his fear a little. Maybe the fact that we kept walking and never attempted to stop him helped. Anyway, we laughed our asses off on the way back to the group. My buddy does a great impersonation of jackie clutching that gat like he was looking into the headlight of an oncoming train. And then PhilCo came out and Jackie had that look of terror no more. It was hard to believe that it was the same jackie before and during the show. Next time you see him, tell him my wife says he should stop smoking. But I thought it was funny, It almost seemed like he had the puffing timed to be part of the act while he played the keys.

The boyz did a country set for the good peeps of Sioux Land. There were a few minutes of psychedelia, but Molo was kept reigned in most of the night keeping country time. (Friend of the debil, cumberland, cold rain, birdsong, box of rain...)

lw

[JRL]

lw, next time you see Jackie ask him this: " You learned to play out of the key of C on the organ?". When I was playing with him he used an electronic function so he could play everything as if it were the key of
C, C being the easiest key to play.

[JRL]

PS: If Jackie quit smoking he would look a lot less like Dylan.

[laughingwillow]

LOL Shucks, jrl...... If I say something like that to jackie, I might just get booted from the Phil Lesh fan club.

lw

[laughingwillow]

Saturday In The Park
Sioux City, IA 7/5/08

Set:

^Friend Of The Devil
^Deal
^Ball & Chain
^Peggy-O>
Cumberland Blues>
^So Hard To Find My Way> Jam>
The Wheel> Cosmic Charlie Jam>
Bird Song>
Chest Fever>
Caution>
Cold Rain & Snow

Donor Rap/Intros

enc: Box Of Rain

*** Fireworks ***

^w/Teresa Williams

[JRL]

Oh I don't know Phil's always appeared to have a sense of humor. Ball and Chain the Janis tune?

[laughingwillow]

Naw, Jackie has a song called "Like a Ball and Chain," too.

OK...... I just might get booted from the Jackie Greene fan club if'n I were to utter those words you suggest.

But it is hard to believe the little guy cowering by the bus before the show was the same cat on stage, though. My buddy thought he looked like a kid who knew he was just about to lose his lunch money to a couple of school-yard thugs. But when the lights came up, he turned into a decent showman, imo.

lw