Re: Audient

[paul <phaslem@wightman.ca>]

This is great, audient and now un-crowd, brilliant words.
I played in St. Louis about 13 yrs ago, I think the people were 
preoccupied with the weather, in fact the next morning they closed 
the interstate when the flood waters went over the road. Anyway there 
was 3 people in the auditorium so I treated it more like a house gig 
and invited them to come up and sit on the stage and we swapped 
stories and played tunes; had an amazing evening! One of the best on 
that tour!!

Paul Haslem
www.dulcify.ca








At 10:26 AM 3/9/2007, you wrote:
>I have to agree ... I once went and saw a friend of mine play at 
>Cornelia street cafe, I paid a cover, ordered kindof an expensive 
>dinner for myself and my date, and watched the first set. There were 
>about 14 people there to see him and I guess Cornelia street has 
>some kind of policy that if there aren't 15 people, no second set. 
>So here I've paid a cover, drinks, food I didn't really want (for 2) 
>and halfway through dinner the show is over, kaput. It was 
>ridiculous ... the dinner and drinks we ordered significantly 
>exceeded the drink minimum of 5 or 6 or more audients. I am never 
>going to Cornelia street cafe again. It's been years and I've stuck 
>to that, because I think that policy represents the absolute wrong 
>attitude ... it's not about the people who aren't there, it's about 
>the audience that IS there, that made the trip, spent the money, set 
>their evening aside. It wasn't MY doing whether there were 2 or 100 
>people at the show, I was a customer who didn't get his money's 
>worth, and worse, I felt like my evening was kind of stolen from me.
>
>So having been on the other side of that, I really try to put on the 
>best show I can, regardless of who is in the crowd. Or un-crowd, as 
>the case may be.
>
>-- Sarth