GZ: Ok? Now if you still want to get your name in the liner notes we want sixty-nine, ninety-five dollars right now!
AZF*: Where does it come from? We worked one gig this month. And now, so, what do we get, two hundred dollars for this gig up here, if we're lucky. If we're lucky, we'll get two hundred. And it'll be two weeks before we get it. Probably. I mean a- . . . after all, uh . . . what is all this shit in the, uh, in the forum? We sh-, if we got such a big name, how come, uh . . . we're. . .
GZ: That shit in the forum . . .
AZF: We're starving, man! This fucking fandom is starving! And we've been starving for thirteen years. I realize it takes a long time, but God damn does it take another five, ten years from now?
GZ: There's some months when you're not gonna work as much as other months. There's some months when you're gonna get a lot of product, and if you average it out, you do make more than a few good times a month.
AZF: Concert tix are sure high, too. If we'd all been living in California, it would've been different.
GZ: If you'd all been living in California, you wouldn't get to see a show at all!
AZF: Ah that's -- true . . . Well, they're not touring n-now anyway! Terry & co played one gig last month, Gail! What's wrong with getting two months in a row of this good product or show? Or three months in a row? Then we can afford to take three or four months off and everybody can . . . After the first month I can get just enough ahead, but if I had two more months, man, I'll get ahead. 'Cause I'm not living very extravagantly, I'll tell you for sure . . .
* AZF = Anonymous Zappa Fan
story old as the hunt.
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I prefer to pay the least and get a bigger bang. To me, the one-time experience of a concert, is irreplacable in it's totality. I think everyone would agree, Nothing like being there. A dvd or audio of a show (often sold later at a commonly fixed price) has the great disadvantage of being one eye or multiple eyes edited into the duration-of-time length of the show. Like a funnel which is
only transferring what it's designed capabilities can do. Of course we all know the additional disadvantage of say, audience recordings rather than soundboard quality audio and underproduced rather than artist-controlled production and engineering. But that's tech talk even though it IS fraught apparently with emotional issues for a number of forumers . . .
But one advantage that a reproducible audio/visual 'document' has over the live experience ($68.50 USD I paid for the upcoming KC show tix) is that you can play it over and over again as loud as your stereo can reproduce it [there is a couple discussions there about the ear-and-the-mouth, but they'll have to wait -- even tho I know they are germain to the topic when there is product and their advertisements
arte en cycle]. To me, being able to play the cd or dvd or other media over and over in your own space is worth MUCH more than a one-time event -- even tho the two are different in nature and I would not give up the chance to see a band [but this band
no way!!!!] if I thought they might provide a good time in-the-arena. Just so, I HATE
having to pay as much for a concert as I would a 4cd boxset. BECAUSE I can play the cd over and over again forever but only get that-very-show-only once in-the-arena.
they are giving us a few good and a few dunders first to test the water and see what the net audience will do with this limited ad-campaign. same with fz:oz and its name-campaign.
but I can do both and laugh as all of you continue the human diorama . . .
HAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHAAAA!!!!!!!!!1
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