what are you wearing right now?...

[Bobby Timmons]

Finding ways to avoid jury duty keeps your brain sharp.

It doesn't take too much struggle for me to come up with an excuse. I just tell em I'm mentally unstable.

[Bobby Timmons]

A neat buttoned shirt and a blazer. Parent teacher conferences today/tonight.

Are the kids being good or bad?

[DawgBone]

I want to write a few more songs, but my 2025 goal is to make a recording. Spotify and CD's I think. Something to put next to the tip jar at gigs and also to mail out to Jazz Stations per Henry Robbinet's suggestion.

I think I'll do half quartet and half trio. Cutting out the drums and going acoustic for the trio. Lots of brainstorming right now.

My personal feeling is to keep it consistent but who am I to talk since I thought about adding keys or maybe even a harmonica to one or two tracks I've recorded that might benefit from it. If you are going to be doing a lot of covers and then printing to CD and going to digital get ready to pay some serious $$$ to Harry Fox unless most of the tunes are self penned. You can easily spend $500 bucks on licensing to print a thousand CD's of all cover music. More originals, less money out the door. It's a balance at times though cause jazz and jazz standards are almost expected even more so than blues music.

Also you should be thinking about some area or regional small tour or tours to support such a release. Doesn't have to be a huge production, could just be a couple weekends outta town, but you should expand your circle using it. Send CD and your one sheet to radio station, possible interview-performance at that station in given town you've booked, then gig later that night after promoting it. Otherwise all you get is a high priced business card. I'm just saying think of some ways to promote your stuff beyond "well I have a CD now" or you'll just have a buncha boxes of CD's taking up your closet space.

[AllanAllen]

All in due time. I’m not even running a marathon over sprinting. I’m planning a walk around the block, but only if it’s not rainy.

I have other commitments and I can’t let music get too much of my time without the $$$ to make it worthwhile. A perpetual balancing act.

[DawgBone]

All in due time. I’m not even running a marathon over sprinting. I’m planning a walk around the block, but only if it’s not rainy.

I have other commitments and I can’t let music get too much of my time without the $$$ to make it worthwhile. A perpetual balancing act.

Live cheap, play more. My wife gigs so explaining these concepts to her is easy. Maybe less so for other guys. If you are waiting for the $$$ to make it worthwhile then you went into the wrong field but I think you could def build it up over the next few years bit by bit from where you are now. It's a process, and one that I have seen you move pretty speedily on the past two years. Most people will never gig let alone put together a group and gig regularly so you are making damn good headway.

[AllanAllen]

I just mean I can’t gig 3 nights a week for $70 a gig. I can do that once a week. My threshold is still low because I have no name or fanbase. I’m still not sure where jazz fans are in my area, but I’ve got one night stands booked through February and have a monthly residency starting Thursday.

The future looks jazzy. Got NYE booked and they wanted dance tunes so I’m adding In The Mood, All of Me and It Don’t Mean A Thing back in the set.

[DawgBone]

I just mean I can’t gig 3 nights a week for $70 a gig. I can do that once a week. My threshold is still low because I have no name or fanbase. I’m still not sure where jazz fans are in my area, but I’ve got one night stands booked through February and have a monthly residency starting Thursday.

The future looks jazzy. Got NYE booked and they wanted dance tunes so I’m adding In The Mood, All of Me and It Don’t Mean A Thing back in the set.

I don't know the market in your area but there is no more weekend fri-sat for my group for less than 500-600 bucks. It means I play a little bit less, but do a whole lot fewer shit gigs. I haven't done the 50-70 per man gigs since before covid. Those days are over for me.

As for NYE gigs, that date, July 4th, and halloween I want nothing to do with unless it really pays. Those are amateur hour gigs....every non professional drunk comes out, gets wasted, can't drive drunk like a true pro would, and doesn't tip either. Those gigs are all risk and little extra reward unless the guarantee is big.

[mr. beaumont]

Are the kids being good or bad?

:P

Pretty good. We have our issues, but mop haired entitled white kids aren't one of them

[AllanAllen]

I don't know the market in your area but there is no more weekend fri-sat for my group for less than 500-600 bucks. It means I play a little bit less, but do a whole lot fewer shit gigs. I haven't done the 50-70 per man gigs since before covid. Those days are over for me.

As for NYE gigs, that date, July 4th, and halloween I want nothing to do with unless it really pays. Those are amateur hour gigs....every non professional drunk comes out, gets wasted, can't drive drunk like a true pro would, and doesn't tip either. Those gigs are all risk and little extra reward unless the guarantee is big.

Yeah well, I just passed my first year. I can’t exactly say no to the only thing I’m gettin offered. Then I’d never play. Balancing act trying to get enough scratch to pay the band against having any gigs at all.

[Mick-7]

I don the shirt pictured below every time Mr. Controversy, a.k.a., forum member Bobby-Timmons, has a thread deleted. Consequently, I have been wearing it often lately. Pretty sure the "Bonk" panel is a caricature of him, and the "Poof" panel illustrates the fate of his threads.



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[AllanAllen]

I don't feel like they've been heated and worthy of deletion. If there's some rule I'm breaking, I'd like to know it to save Dirk the annoyance.

[Mick-7]

I don't feel like they've been heated and worthy of deletion. If there's some rule I'm breaking, I'd like to know it to save Dirk the annoyance.

I agree, we know that personal attacks are not allowed, some posts may have bordered on that, but just warn those posters and maybe delete their posts but don't delete the entire thread, that's ruder than the rudest comment.

[AllanAllen]

He's said once before that he deleted a thread at the OP's request.

[2bornot2bop]

Pretty good. We have our issues, but mop haired entitled white kids aren't one of them

He should have been smart enough not to get directly into a cops face. Not very smart. He was trying to bait the cop and then got too close. Wrong move.

[2bornot2bop]

Pretty good? While carrying brass knuckles?!

Brass knuckles are prohibited and regulated in many states. They’re considered dangerous weapons that can cause serious bodily injury. Especially if you get into a cops face. The cop had no idea if he was about to be assaulted. I worked the streets with a lot of truly bad juveniles. But no one ever got into my face that closely. Nice sweep move too.

[DawgBone]

If it weren't for Bobby Timmons' threads this place would be pretty dull. Just people talking about toob metros or quitter amps or something. Mike Campellone can't be the only guy holding the place down. Good work Bobby.

[Bobby Timmons]

Thx

[Litterick]

Pretty good? While carrying brass knuckles?!

Brass knuckles are prohibited and regulated in many states. They’re considered dangerous weapons that can cause serious bodily injury. Especially if you get into a cops face. The cop had no idea if he was about to be assaulted. I worked the streets with a lot of truly bad juveniles. But no one ever got into my face that closely. Nice sweep move too.

Three times in recent years, young men have done that to me, in each case because of a trivial matter — such as being asked to turn the noise down. Each time, I had the opportunity to knee the young man in the goolies, a response he clearly had not anticipated. But each time, I kept my feet on the ground and stared the young man down, until he backed away. I don't understand what they think they will achieve, or why they do not think of the risks.

[Boss Man Zwiebelsohn]

I am wearing the new Boss Man Zwiebelsohn style.