With You On My Mind aka Stars...

[elle]

Originally Posted by Regina

I looked at the Morristown, NJ date and the tickets have been on sale for a couple of weeks now and 3/4 of the place is still empty. In a very small venue.

i'm with you on giving him ginormous props for pushing himself as an artist , touring and putting himself out there for fans.

re NJ date, you know, he has numerous dates in or around NYC, this Morristown being one of them - plus NYC Town Hall (that did not go on sale yet), Ridgefield, Westhampton, even Keswick is not that far... meanwhile the only date in larger DC area is north of Baltimore (no Virginia, no DC venues, no closer in MD such as Bethesda...). and no mid-NJ date (i guess you can count Keswick, PA for that again). so maybe that's the reason?

none of the other venues i looked at for tickets sold just 1/4 - usually after just a day of sales they seemed to be about 1/2 full (of course, with some it's hard to tell with the way they offer tickets).

EDIT: it may not help that link to Morristown date from LB's website is not working properly.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Regina

So, I give him tremendous props for continuing to push himself as an artist and to put himself out there for his fans (even though we're not a massive crowd).
Ugh. That was a tangent. But, it's free association time at the home!

I laud him for that as well. He loses money on these tours and I'm thankful he keeps doing them. I'm not happy that FM goes on nostalgia tours and part of me wishes he wouldn't participate in that. But he does use the money to keep creating and to promote what he creates, even if there's no mass audience for it. So, I'm very happy.

I know I'm biased, but these SWS songs sound like some of the best work he's ever done and it would have been a travesty if he'd just hung up his guitar and decided to rest on GYOW.

Michele

[Nico]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I know I'm biased, but these SWS songs sound like some of the best work he's ever done and it would have been a travesty if he'd just hung up his guitar and decided to rest on GYOW.

Michele

Agree with this 100%. The new songs that were presented in live form months ago are some of the greatest music I have heard in a while. I won't lie, I'm not nuts about that free download song, but it's growing on me. Shoot, I still like it better than "Not Too Late" and I'm a HUGE fan of UTS. So this album sounds like it is going to be all kinds of fantastic!!!

[BaronVonBielski]

I love the studio version of Seeds We Sow, it's a great song and only gets me more excited for the album to follow.

[jellyman10]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I'm not happy that FM goes on nostalgia tours and part of me wishes he wouldn't participate in that. But he does use the money to keep creating and to promote what he creates, even if there's no mass audience for it.

Yes, I think it's an honourable model for any artist. I've worked in indie publishing for many years and the way we always spoke about it was that the guidebooks to trout fishing or golf courses made the money that allowed us to publish that slim volume of modernist Gaelic verse.

I applaud LB on this, too.

[McTrouble]

Originally Posted by BaronVonBielski

I love the studio version of Seeds We Sow, it's a great song and only gets me more excited for the album to follow.

Me too - it grew on me really quickly and now I love it - just can't wait for the CD!

[BaronVonBielski]

It's horrid. Blech!