shut yo mouths and donate your half to the house

I say stuff this lame ass full of beer tokens and let the drunks rip him apart.

i work at Espresso Yourself and help run it with my father sister and bandmate. my name's ben and i've played my share of other venues around town.

anyway...

The email is nothing to be offended by it is simply an invitation to play at a place that has been helping the arts for three years now. we have all donated countless hours giving up and coming bands a place to rehearse, record, try out their new material. The door split is no different (actually more fair to the artist) than many venues in town where you can bring in hundreds at the door and end up with a very small fraction of what came in. the 50% split is not undeserved, i am the usual sound man and i spend a majority of my shift behind the board making sure things sound right. the door split usually just covers my hourly pay.

you've heard of the "production fee" at many venues to pay the sound guy etc. and the rest of that goes into new microphones and monitors to make the musicians sound even better in the future.

we have provided free demos and live recordings to dozens of bands, and we pay a lot of our OWN money and spend a lot of our OWN time making sure we have one of the better sounding systems in the city.

we have also let bands come in and use our space to track drums and other instruments free of charge.

i assume most of you know nothing of what goes on at our venue and are taking the email the wrong way. we admit our mistake, but really we're just trying to be helpful here no offense was meant on our part. anyone who has dealt with us can tell you our heart's in the right place. so you got it off your chests but no need to smear our family business any further, come check it out for yourself and base your opinion on that.

cool?

i am no advocate of pay to play, or any gross things like that.

but i can say i have been to expresso yourself...i think.
if its the place i'm remembering
they do like things like piano recitals, choir perfomances, and trumpet solo's for little kids during the day.

fantastic intel.

so it's, like, maybe a real place and you might've been there.

Now I know.

i am sure expresso yourself would pay you to never have paper airplane play there

for the sake of the COMUNITY

so true.

all the people on the street (not at our show) would be dangerous

Who the fuck is going to play at a coffeeshop in Powell?


better yet, a coffee shop for extremely well off hippies.

...just thought it was a funny post.

benny, let me help u

people get your band like they get your jokes

(hint they dont get either))

ramirez you know we friends so i got your back that was a good one

you know what i be doing

omg omg this thread is friendship farm gold!

Keep the hits comin!

So are you guys seriously offended, or are you just enjoying the opportunity to anonymously gang up on a stranger over something as unimportant as comfest?

Shittomg on something as sacred as Comfest is like shitting on the chest of Christ, also known as something I would do for money.