It’s Monday and it’s time to blog!! I’m excited baby!!!
Lets go back to how live music has been so devalued shall we!! Now we’ve already discussed how the musicians themselves have contributed to this but now we need to talk about the owners part in this mess! It took me a long time to figure out that the owners/managers don’t distinguish between talent or no talent good or bad! They only care about what their “ring” is for that night.This ,in my mind is very short sighted because if you are looking to “build’ a bar crowd in a restaurant,you need to have quality music there and preferrably the same person or people! Oh and this huge, not only must they be good, they must be PERSONNABLE!! That is of course unless we’re talking about Saturday night, then you can hire anybody good because people are out anyway. But during the week, it does not work when owners have somebody different every week! You cannot build a local crowd by shuffling your musicians over & over! Owners tend to hire an act thinking “oh they’ll bring a good crowd down”, then next week they’ll hire a different act and again, “oh they’ll bring a good crowd down”, and it goes like this finally the owner will repeat artist,(after a month or 2) but now the people that showed up for that same act the 1st time they played there will not show up the 2nd time because chances are they’ve seen that act somewhere else that week and they’ve already been to your restaurant the 1st time they played AND IT’S NOT THEIR SPOT!!! Owners please you have to build a local crowd and you can only do that by hiring an act that actually has talent!!! So YES you have to weed out the non-talents!! And as far as building a crowd, it’s like baseball it’s always best to build from within then go out and get a piece or 2 if needed!!Please owners you can’t just hire anyone because they’re cheaper and you just need music!!! Paying for good musicians is like paying for good ingredients to make your food! It cost a little more up front but in the long run you make that money back and more!!!!
Alright enough bitchin’!! To the Schedule we go!!!
Tuesday May 8th Ahh it’s the one and only acoustic open mic at Jack Halyards 62 South Street Oyster Bay, NY 11771 (516) 922-2999 or jackhalyards.com. Hey people! THIS PLACE IS ROCKING ON TUESDAY NIGHTS!! GET OUT! GET HOOKED!! AND GET SOME FUN BEFORE WE HAVE IT ALL!!! 7-whenever we’re done baby!!!
Thursday May 10th It’s Bistro Citron baby 1362 Old Northern Boulevard Roslyn, NY 11576 or ya call (516) 403-4400 or better yet just go to bistrocitron.com and make a reservation for a Thursday night!!! Place is cool, People there are cool and the coolest thing of all is the music!!! 8-10:30 or 11 depends on how crazy you guys get!!!!
Friday May 11th No Cool Fish this week! doin’ a privatefrickinparty!! The Banchee Bros. will be fillin in for me!!!
Saturday May 12th Another Privatefrickinparty!!!
Sunday May 13th HAPPY MOTHERSDAY!!! We are gonna be chillin with a barbecue and drinkin’ some some kick-ass wine!!! ALLFRICKINDAY!!!!
Big Love,
Mike
