Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[dragoner]

Some day I'm going to call up my insurance company and ask them in all seriousness if that clause involves acts of any God, or just the Christian one... And, now that I think about it, do they consider the Great Old Ones to be Gods?

If one digs into the history of the insurance companies, and industry, the Great Old Ones would blush at the nastiness.

 

[Ryujin]

The real "King" of Rock 'n' Roll.

He used to play a little local club, called Spanky's, that was below an FM radio station (CFNY, which was the only Alternative radio station in the area at the time) about 5 miles from my house. Later, in the '80s, it changed its name to Stars. I was too young to get in and this particular Toronto suburb had about 600,000 fewer residents then. We had some wild bands play those two clubs. As in you wouldn't believe the names involved, that showed up in this little bump in the road back then.

 

[dragoner]

oh the irony

 

[trappedslider]

 

[The Soloist]

He used to play a little local club, called Spanky's, that was below an FM radio station (CFNY, which was the only Alternative radio station in the area at the time) about 5 miles from my house. Later, in the '80s, it changed its name to Stars. I was too young to get in and this particular Toronto suburb had about 600,000 fewer residents then. We had some wild bands play those two clubs. As in you wouldn't believe the names involved, that showed up in this little bump in the road back then.

Do you think, because people steal music on the internet and streamers pay almost nothing, we could see a resurgence of small venues with live music, because that is how bands make living now?

 

[Ryujin]

Do you think, because people steal music on the internet and streamers pay almost nothing, we could see a resurgence of small venues with live music, because that is how bands make living now?

I don't know that's going to happen. Everything seems to be concentrated on the huge staged shows out of stadiums, these days.

Back in the day you could see up-and-comers like Duran Duran at smaller venues like The Concert Hall, in Toronto. Maybe 1000 people, including the open floor. It's still there and has been renovated. I saw Forgotten Rebels at a club called El Mocambo, in the early '80s. The Rolling Stones played there, in a "secret show" in the late '70s, and it was released as a live album. It seated 300 and that wasn't the only time that they payed there, with no prior announcement.. We had a Metric Tonne of small clubs, that had big name acts just basically show up, back then.

 

[prabe]

I don't know that's going to happen. Everything seems to be concentrated on the huge staged shows out of stadiums, these days.

Back in the day you could see up-and-comers like Duran Duran at smaller venues like The Concert Hall, in Toronto. Maybe 1000 people, including the open floor. It's still there and has been renovated. I saw Forgotten Rebels at a club called El Mocambo, in the early '80s. The Rolling Stones played there, in a "secret show" in the late '70s, and it was released as a live album. It seated 300 and that wasn't the only time that they payed there, with no prior announcement.. We had a Metric Tonne of small clubs, that had big name acts just basically show up, back then.

The sense I have is that there are still some smaller venues, but I live in the East Coast Megalopolis, so my sense of things might be skewed (and I haven't been following the music biz much for a while).

 

[Scribe]

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"Maybe you were right about that Stoicism stuff."

Indeed.

 

[dragoner]

I saw Forgotten Rebels at a club called El Mocambo, in the early '80s.

Still have This Ain't Hollywood on vinyl, got it at a show.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Do you think, because people steal music on the internet and streamers pay almost nothing, we could see a resurgence of small venues with live music, because that is how bands make living now?

I don't know about bands (that is to say groups), but I get the feeling a fair number of individual musicians make their money fron Patreon and its kin.