From: "john gordon" <saxman119@hotmail.com>
also, do most of the people on this list live in
new york? if so, it must be nice. i live in god forsaken georgia.
I don't mean to get into a pissing contest with you, but I live in northeast Mississippi. The key is not to creeb and grotch about your circumstances, but to get the most out of them. Did you go to the Lytton/Lovens/Vandermark concert in Atlanta last month? I'm sure there's all sorts of interesting live music in Georgia, and not just in Atlanta and Athens. As for record stores -- thanks to the magic of UPS and FedEx, Aquarius Records and DMG are as close to my house and your house as they are to Steve Smith's and Fearless Leader Rizzi's. I'd be interested to hear from NYC zornlisters on this. Do you take full advantage of your location and make it Gigsville every night? I think if I tried to, I'd be bankrupt within three months. Welcome to the list, by the way. William Crump
I get up to Chicago and Bloomington frequently from Indianapolis. I also started a quasi-experimental presenting group at my university. If it doesn't come, bring it to you! Zach -------------- He who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. -- Andre Breton -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of William Crump Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:25 PM To: Zorn List Subject: Location, location, location
From: "john gordon" <saxman119@hotmail.com>
also, do most of the people on this list live in
new york? if so, it must be nice. i live in god forsaken georgia.
I don't mean to get into a pissing contest with you, but I live in northeast Mississippi. The key is not to creeb and grotch about your circumstances, but to get the most out of them. Did you go to the Lytton/Lovens/Vandermark concert in Atlanta last month? I'm sure there's all sorts of interesting live music in Georgia, and not just in Atlanta and Athens. As for record stores -- thanks to the magic of UPS and FedEx, Aquarius Records and DMG are as close to my house and your house as they are to Steve Smith's and Fearless Leader Rizzi's. I'd be interested to hear from NYC zornlisters on this. Do you take full advantage of your location and make it Gigsville every night? I think if I tried to, I'd be bankrupt within three months. Welcome to the list, by the way. William Crump _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list
Speaking only for myself, no, I do not. It's funny: Twelve years ago when I would come up here for a week-long visit when my sister was at NYU, I would go out every single night like a rabid junkie. I vividly remember one particular week that included shows by Elliott Sharp with an 18-piece orchestra, an Ed Blackwell Trio gig with Carlos Ward and Mark Helias, the very first performance of Tim Berne and Mike Formanek's Loose Cannon (a show that Joey Baron opened by telling jokes and attempting magic tricks) and Ned Rothenberg's Double Band (with Thomas Chapin), night after night after night. And when I first moved here, it was much the same: Even though I lived out in the 'burbs on Long Island, I would schlep into the city as often as humanly possible to hear things. But it's definitely cooled off over the years: Aside from a brief stretch when I worked at the Knitting Factory and lived in Manhattan five years ago, when again I would find myself out most every night (it helps when all you have to do is walk upstairs for a show, then walk home afterward), I find that I don't go out as much as I used to. Now, as the classical music editor of a weekly magazine, I'm invited to hear the Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and incredible visiting soloists on a daily basis. And of course, then there's the overwhelming amount of jazz, rock and other music that's also available most nights. Faced with such a bounty, sometimes my mind simply freezes up and I don't go hear anything. And sometimes, frankly, I'd just rather be with my girlfriend - and since we're both professional music journalists, sometimes in our down time we'd rather do almost anything at all rather than going out to hear more music. But lest I sound jaded, my enthusiasm for music itself remains undimmed: I still listen to piles of CDs and download even more (though these days it's almost entirely "legit" stuff). I do still have weeks where I'll go out almost every night, though thanks to my work schedule there are even more weeks when I cancel almost every night and remain chained to a computer. And I'll hasten to add that when one of my favorites is playing (especially Cecil Taylor and Derek Bailey), I'll almost always make the effort. Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Gloria Coates, 'The Force for Peace and War' (New World)
I'd be interested to hear from NYC zornlisters on this. Do you take full advantage of your location and make it Gigsville every night? I think if I tried to, I'd be bankrupt within three months.
One of the things I had to learn quickly as I arrived in NYC for grad school is that I had to resign myself to the fact that I'd miss some great event every day. I'd say I see 2 or 3 events per month (and most of those are contemporary classical recitals.) One of the frustrations is trying to round up friends to do any particular event. You email them and say "so-and-so is playing at blabbity blahs this Saturday, you interested?" and they think "Crap, I already have my heart set on doing totally-different-thing on Thursday." The scene certainly couldn't handle it if all downtown music fans showed up for every event. We can't all fit into Tonic at once! (Probably just the NYC-area Z-listers would fill it up nicely.) That is my loser homebody grad-student perspective, anyway. -Dave Smey Brooklyn, NY Atonal ear-training freeware at http://dsmey.home.mindspring.com
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