Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] guitar stuff...

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yeah I played the Whiskey and the Roxy both on Sunset Strip. Don't
assume anything though. There is no real accomplishment to playing
those places. At that time (and it still is) anyone with the right
amount of money can play those places. They are called "Show-Cases"
now and what happens is:

The group or management pays anywhere from $650 - 2500 depending on
the time slot to play. You get 100 -250 tickets. You sell the tickets
and whatever you make on the sale of the tickets you get to keep.

Most people give the tickets away and use the venues now to showcase
for record companies, which is what we did.

I have had some success in music, I think I mentioned that before, I
was with a signed act once which garnered a lot of success in Europe.
Here in the states less so.

As I understand what happened to Ashley Simpson was that particular
night she was experiencing a bad throat, so they recorded her vocal
lines in ProTools and the drummer was supposed to control the song. We
what happened was the band started playing a song, but the drummer
supposedly pressed the wrong vocals for the song, so when the vocals
were supposed to come in, they were not there and when they did some
in they were wrong.

The drummer jumped on it pretty quick and Ashley walked off the stage
leaving the band to pick up the slack and SNL went to a quick
commercial.

So that is what happened as I understand it, someone else might know
more than I do though.

On Apr 4, 2005 7:56 AM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Vern Green wrote:
> 
> > I remember we played the Whiskey A Go-Go one night...
> 
> In LA?  You guys were doing pretty well for yourselves!
> 
> 
> > I really have a disdain for these that do that. The latest thing with
> > Ashley Simpson just drives me crazy, if you can't go out there and play
> > the stuff live and get a decent sound, then in my opinion you are a
> > fake. Why have a band at all if this is what you are going to do? There
> > is no point to it, since the band cannot improvise, they are locked into
> > playing whatever the technology delivers. Even if you have programmed
> > options, you still have only those options to play with.
> 
> I've been wondering what happened with the Ashley Simpson thing on SNL.
> SNL always had a very strong rule against any faking in live performances
> -- no lip syncing, no unplugged guitars, etc.  Did they change the rule or
> was she trying to put one over on them?  She claimed that the band had
> started to play the wrong song, but is that really possible?  I really
> wonder how this could happen.  I've watched SNL for 30 years and I've only
> seen one screw up like that one and nothing else that even comes close.
> 
> If she lip synced in most of her shows, she would have had enough
> experience with it not to screw up on SNL, so I have to guess that she
> usually doesn't lip sync, but I could be wrong.
> 
> Mike
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