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Amanda Palmer crowdsourcing her string and horn section for her tour is:

A necessary concession given the music industry
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An awesome testament to the power of crowdsourcing and fan-funding
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Stupid and hypocritical given her artist advocacy
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Post by Brian » Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:05 am

How many times have I seen somebody famous or successful have their overly significant other come up with some stupid disruptive and counterproductive schlockness like AP and force her drivel out into the public.
I?m with garges and the horse she stole to get there.
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Post by Smitty » Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:52 am

Oh man, I just figured out that she's that chick from the Dresden Dolls... well then let me just say that I got in on the ground floor of this whole "not caring for her" thing a long time before this incident.
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Post by dfuruta » Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:26 am

Brian wrote:How many times have I seen somebody famous or successful have their overly significant other come up with some stupid disruptive and counterproductive schlockness like AP
What??

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Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:33 am

i'm thinking it'd be pretty amusing if some string folks showed up, did rehearsal all professional-like, then on the gig played everything a half step out. which would of course be petty, vindictive, and extremely unprofessional. but it would be entertaining.

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Post by Smitty » Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:35 am

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:i'm thinking it'd be pretty amusing if some string folks showed up, did rehearsal all professional-like, then on the gig played everything a half step out. which would of course be petty, vindictive, and extremely unprofessional. but it would be entertaining.
Yes. This.
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Post by T-rex » Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:02 am

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:i'm thinking it'd be pretty amusing if some string folks showed up, did rehearsal all professional-like, then on the gig played everything a half step out. which would of course be petty, vindictive, and extremely unprofessional. but it would be entertaining.
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Post by cgarges » Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:45 am

Smitty wrote:Yes. This.
Totally agreed. How can we make this happen? I'll chip in a few bucks to pay someone to do this if it's documented. Seriously.

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Post by Nick Sevilla » Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:50 am

cgarges wrote:
Smitty wrote:Yes. This.
Totally agreed. How can we make this happen? I'll chip in a few bucks to pay someone to do this if it's documented. Seriously.

Chris Garges
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I'm in for 20 bucks, as long as we get a video reaction.
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Post by Gregg Juke » Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:21 pm

That reminds me of three funny things:

1) The Van Halen incident (don't have a link right now, but it's on YouTube), where they're live in concert in Brazil or something, and the dat tape of keyboard parts on "Jump" is off-speed, but Eddie plows through his out-of-tune solo anyway...

2) The time a bunch of drunk weasels detuned our instruments one night in a bar when the band was outside on a break. Man, the opening chords of the next set were a shocker...

3) Closest to the point of the posts above, my friend Len, an amazing guitarist, would often randomly play signature guitar lines to songs a half or whole step up, or even in rhythm but a 12-tone kind of thing; just for his own amusement and the amusement of those who could figure it out... This would be live on-stage in front of a crowd, just because he could. It was a riot.

To the matter at-hand-- What if we start a Kickstarter campaign to fund AP's string section in certain high-profile towns, but we give them the secret instructions? ( "A half-step higher, please... Cello? A quarter-tone lower").

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Post by Smitty » Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:01 pm

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Post by vvv » Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:20 pm

How about that! 8)
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Post by Nick Sevilla » Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:29 pm

We bitchy trolls can pull a little weight then...
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Post by Smitty » Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:19 pm

Amazingly, she manage to find the money somewhere.

So much for Operation Half-Step...
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Post by fossiltooth » Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:55 pm

Well, I'll be!

Nice move, Amanda. Nice move.

Musicians advocated for their profession, and it worked. A fact worth remembering.

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Post by Scodiddly » Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:14 pm

Smitty wrote:Amazingly, she manage to find the money somewhere.
Apparently a fair amount of it taken from the video part of the budget.

Hmmm... I wonder if the video guys were willing to work for free? :twisted:

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