Comments for Jersey Mike

Comment on She Said “What About Los Angeles?” (West Coast Trip Blog) Part I by Jimmy L

Jimmy L — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:29:56 +0000

I was talking with an aquaintence of Corky Goldstein of City Council’s economic team & he suggested to Corky to bring back the concerts to City Island. He and my friend did seperate research on why the concerts were really halted. It appears that the wealthy blue hairs back in the 1980’s funded the Amusement Tax to only allow you, the promoter, to earn a whopping $30.00 per show!!! What I don’t understand is that if Mayor Reed wanted to make Harrisburg into some kind of cultural mecca for the “arts” (more specific: Musuems), why was the “art” of music punished by non-residents? Smells bad, doesn’t it? With the self-inflicted liability of the incinerator on their hands, one would think that repealling the “amusement tax”, is a no brainer. But maybe that is what the citizens of Harrisburg have on their hands: no brains in charge at a critical juncture. Thanks.

Comment on My Music Town by jeff lynch

jeff lynch — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:56:00 +0000

mike,

this city does not need branding. this city needs to drop the negativity, yours included. with all due respect, harrisburg has one of the tightest musical communities i’ve seen anywhere, and we have various opportunities to catch very high quality live music for free or next to nothing.

the city and the scene is not without it’s problems, but personally slamming folks who are trying to make it happen is completely counter-productive.

if folks in town spent less time bitching and moaning about what is and more time making things happen …

ps: to be fair, you work hard to make things happen. just lighten up the tactics …

Comment on Silly Bands and Their Emails by alexis

alexis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:11:02 +0000

As the recipient of about a bajillion press releases a day, I cannot agree more. You would be surprised how many PR professionals from reputable places put ALL their press contacts in their”to” section. So. Annoying.

Comment on My Music Town by gingertheory

gingertheory — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:24:50 +0000

Great discussion!!
I’m curious whats going to happen to the 3 festivals this year around. If they’re even going to have them ?? I got word that the people who were coordinating it for the past years are no longer in the loop. Musicfest, Kipona, and Artsfest.
I personally am a big fan of the local scene, and take every opportunity to tell people. It is what you put into it.”Harrisburg, As boring as you make it” is a great slogan. I feel like at this moment Harrisburg is like a ball on top of a triangle. Its either going to fall forward into greatness, or backwards to well …. not so great. The bright side is there seems to be alot of people helping each other out in pushing that ball forward.

Comment on My Music Town by moemoephoto

moemoephoto — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:30:18 +0000

The close proximity to those large cities makes Harrisburg a HUGE potential.

The last time I saw Toubab Krewe at ABC and when I saw Devon Allman at ABC, they both said they were traveling throuhg the area on the way to NYC and it is a waste to just go sit in a hotel when they can stop and make some cash jamming.

The location can not be underestimated.

As I see it, there are only 2 cities other than Harrisburg taking advantage of these bands traveling through this section of the east coast circuit which stretches from DC to NYC. Lancaster’s Chamelon Club and Towson’s Recher Theater are probably Harrisburg’s biggest market competitors in the small/medium national touring band circuit in this area.

There are venues are here… I’d love to see Jersey have the opportunity to schedule 3 months or more for Whitaker Cener once. Whitaker Center is a great place but like noted above, they are in a dry spell for good shows right now (for my musical preferences anyway). I know they had financial cutbacks this year but……What happened to all the Derek Trucks, Gov’t Mule, Keller Williams, Gregg Allman, etc shows?? I know those all sold very well if not sold out…. Those shows had to have made them some serious money.

The music scene is pretty good right now, largely in part b/c of people like Jersey and great local acts like Shackeltons, Perkasie, The Greatest Funeral Ever, etc. But think of the potential……

If you build it, they will come.