I think a lot of my opinion had to do with what I experienced on the old CincyMusic boards. There was a lot of name-calling and bands putting down other bands. It was awful! I knew of one band that got mad at another one for stealing their drummer, and called all the clubs that band was booked at and tried to cancel the dates!

There ARE good guys, Bob, you're one, Bad Habit, Dallas Moore, Sonny Moorman, Flatline...yeah, there are some bands that support eachother and work together. Cherry Shine (ever seen 'em?) are some of the hands down nicest guys I've ever met. Then there are some weird, pompous ones (I won't name 'em cause that's rude) but I'm sure you're aware of them.

You would be more qualified to speak on this than I would, I'm just voicing what I've experienced. I also only came back on the scene 2 years ago after a hiatus and a lot has changed.

Used to be, you could walk in, have a drink with the club owner, and BOOM! Your band was booked. Now it's a professional demo packet, schedule a time to meet up, get reamed on the price the first time in, owner expects new band to bring in a gazillion people, clubs are booked a year in advance, there are 3 new bands a week competing for spots that veteran bands are also competing for. The smoking ban put about 50% of the live music venues out of business, that and predator cops tailing people home as they leave the place. Not what it used to be.

But that's also what I was saying about bands working together, I don't know of many places booking more than one band a night, other than that Dirty Jack's where 5 original bands get up one at a time and do a few songs. It used to be that clubs had at least 2 bands, usually in seperate areas, playing simultaneously.

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