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 Post subject: Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:48 pm 
chris flynn wrote: Person... Eisley well off? I wonder if Jason Mraz had the tour costs that this band has..
It takes about 1 1/2 years for your ASCAP or BMI royalty checks to roll in (song airplay $) .... and I'm willing to bet, that is the only money this band will see for a bit, other than merchandising $, which probably offsets the tremendous cost of touring. The record label will expect to recoup their investment, and it cost about $250,000 to break a new band, and that was back in the 1980s when my band released a record.. I can only imagine what it costs a label now.. maybe double that.. It's their call... you make good points... but they are under contract.. That contract could stipulate, and I'm just guessing here, that they are not to encourage or promote the illegal taping of shows.. they tour off of advances that they are given from the label i'm sure. bands also make most of their money from touring. a hell of a lot more than from record sales usually. i'm not saying they're well off, just that they probably have more than a cut of the door money from say one show a week as their only income. and as for "illegal" taping. it actually isn't. the law (in CA at least) is fuzzy in that regard and it is only technically illegal if it is "with intent to sell" which is going to be a bitch to prove. at most it would be breach of contract with a venue, not with the band. ok, i'll be done with this now. i just wanted to point something out that people may want, not get into a debate really. if anyone is interested and didn't get the link, this was the set from the show (i don't think it was posted) Memories Mr. Pine My Lovely The Escaping Song Plenty Of Paper Golly Sandra I Wasn't Prepared They All Surrounded Me Lost At Sea Just Like We Do Telescope Eyes Vintage People Tree Tops Marvelous Things Trolley Wood -------------------------- Laughing City Head Against The Sky |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:25 pm
I'm kind of bummed they didn't play Over the Mountains and One Day I Slowly Floated Away, but at least they played the dragon song. Actually, I yelled out "Dragon song!" during a silent part, the people around me in the crowd glared at me and I don't think Eisley heard me, but oh well. It was an amazing show. |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:05 am
LADIES' NIGHT Eisley floats on whimsy and wonder at the Troubadour ~ By RON GARMON ~ Dreamy-eyed youngsters from Tyler, Texas, on their first national tour, Eisley found a roomful of soft, pillowy love at the Troubadour last Saturday night (June 11). The place was sold out and given up to an audience of women lugging their boyfriends as half-willing baggage. An evening of heat and blissful reverence had already locked into a deep groove by the time I wandered in a bit past nine. The headliners brought along their own undercard, but I missed Pilotdrift, who’d apparently popped on and off at their (revised) set times. Truly, we live in an age of near-miracles. Ohio higher-noise aesthetes Lovedrug followed. Billing themselves as “a unique crossbreed of art and accessibility,” they’ve also toured with the death’s-head likes of Cat Power and Creeper Lagoon. Their music is a fashionably appointed whine gliding low over a landscape of metronomes, a humorless parody of post-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco. If Xanax has a sound, Lovedrug is headed for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Eisley consists of the three DuPree sisters – Sherri (guitar, vocals), Chauntelle (guitar), and Stacy (keyboards, vocals) – along with brother Weston (drums) and non-sibling Jon Wilson (bass). Raised on a rib-sticking diet of the Beatles, Pink Floyd, and the Judds, the DuPree youngsters formed the act back in 1997, taking its name from a bit of Star Wars trivia. A pair of EPs led to the band’s signing with Reprise and the debut full-length, Room Noises, released in February. In many ways, Eisley’s music is a late fruit of O.K. Computer-era Radiohead, with the freezing frissons replaced by sunshine and swallowed fireflies. Hailed as one of this year’s best debuts, the album features such highlights as “My Lovely” and “Brightly Wound” – instant contemporary classics, gleaming shards of humor and hope scattered over the bleak aggression of the current scene. The harmonies by Sherri and Stacy filled the Troubadour with feather caresses, scattering delicate feelings to be blown about lighter-than-air by the sweet, ecstatic noise coming from the band. The sense of whimsy and wonder was never overdone or allowed to lapse into one posture for very long, and country, rock, and folk were playfully deconstructed in turn. Once or twice I heard shivery, sustained echoes of the glossy high-lonesome sublimity of Glen Campbell singing Jimmy Webb’s “Wichita Lineman,” a sense of warmth inside a vast emptiness. The Troub’s murky sound system, calloused from years of high-decibel punk, played the band false on the upper registers, but that fazed no one. The place was saturated with love and tender vibes anyway, so much so that, as I walked around the room, I just couldn’t bring myself to growl “Make a hole!” at the besotted ones in my path. No, not once. The ladies of Eisley are adorable (all artful variations on the same theme), and I was probably the only male in the room afforded the liberty of open reveling in their considerable beauty. Large gangs of unescorted wimmen had the females with dates keeping their boys on a stiff leash, so jealousy and the ancient problem many males have with the conjunction of electric guitars and chick voices made for a dismal time. While the girls called out “We love you!” and sang along with the songs, quite a few guys were steeped in torpor or staring distractedly into cell phones. Don’t think I sneer; this kind of domestic stoicism has been too long unsung by workers for a better world. Indeed, Eisley seemed energized by the whole thing. With a final wash of mystic beauty, they stammered blushing thanks and retired, leaving the women dewy-eyed and the men to claim a hero’s reward later on. http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=2220&IssueNum=106 |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:50 am
I knew that guy was press.... I can spot them a mile away.... up in the balcony, sitting next to my daughters... anyway, great review, thanks for posting _________________ Myspace Artist Webpage |
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