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Post by kyle harvey on Sept 1, 2009 10:02:22 GMT -5
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Post by bigalband on Sept 1, 2009 11:15:18 GMT -5
WTF?
tmac?
that article and tree are fucked.
help these people out...please.
-Big AL
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Post by Tim S. McMahan on Sept 1, 2009 11:26:01 GMT -5
It is what it is. I haven't studied it closely. Give Kevin props for trying. That thing was on the front page of the OWH Sunday Entertainment section (which I think is called ETA, I guess to underscore its lack of timeliness? Bad name choice).
A better name for the article would have been "Six Degrees of Saddle Creek" -- a play on Six Degrees of Separation and Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Obviously it doesn't represent the Omaha Music Scene. Kevin did have a disclaimer:
Disclaimer: Omaha's music scene involves more people, bands and venues than could possibly fit on this page. This chart covers the big names, but some items inevitably got left out.
Cut him some slack.
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Post by bigalband on Sept 1, 2009 11:41:26 GMT -5
ok tmac
i will end with this humle suggestion...
to the authors...
discalimer as printed:
"Disclaimer: Omaha's music scene involves more people, bands and venues than could possibly fit on this page. This chart covers the big names, but some items inevitably got left out."
a more accurate disclaimer might go like this:
Disclaimer: Omaha's music scene involves more people, bands and venues than could possibly fit on this page. This chart covers the big names, but some items inevitably got left out...SO WE FOCUSED EVERY WORD OF THE STORY ON SADDLECREEK RECORDS AND THEIR FRIENDS.
-Big AL
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Post by kyle harvey on Sept 1, 2009 11:51:54 GMT -5
I like Kevin... he seems like a nice guy. Although, I think that for someone to write about local music, he should be at some shows.
Think of how this reflects on the 'actual' Omaha music scene. You know, the bands that play here more than once or twice a year.
The people that read the Herald are the type of people that are going to take it as fact, and probably think that its the only music going on in Omaha.
I just think that it is a really big slip up.
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Post by dane on Sept 1, 2009 12:08:28 GMT -5
more than anything else, it's just sort of.... lazy.
i think a true 'tree' would have to involve the likes of mousetrap, dave sink, simon joyner, the gladhands, the acorns, pioneer disaster, ritual device, digital sex....it'd have to show some actual history.
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Post by kyle harvey on Sept 1, 2009 12:14:48 GMT -5
Exactly, Dane.
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Post by bone head on Sept 1, 2009 13:12:29 GMT -5
for someone to write about local music, he should be at some shows
I've said that for oh, about 27 years.
I could name for you all the "music writers" that have promoted themselves as such in Omaha since about 1982. Of that group, less than 5 would go to local shows. And it was evident in their writing. No music writer in Omaha's history has gone to more shows here than Tim. Period. Case closed.
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Post by bigalband on Sept 1, 2009 15:19:44 GMT -5
^^ FACT.
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Post by SPEEDIEST on Sept 2, 2009 19:21:16 GMT -5
A few years back I worked on a SPEED! family tree with the goal of seeing if we could go as far back as Zager and Evans. I think we got pretty close if not there. I haven't updated it in a while. I did it in a pretty basic way, starting with bands on the label and then including other bands the members had played in and so on. What fun!
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Post by chrisk on Sept 3, 2009 18:43:07 GMT -5
infographic and web-hosting fail.
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Post by dr john on Sept 9, 2009 12:22:45 GMT -5
Hate to reiterate what's been said, but i just don't get why all roads in the omaha music scene lead to saddle creek? How about a Maxwell music tree including fifth of may and little brazil? And Digital Sex was HUGE - and are we too cool to even include 311 or is it that they live in LA now? And how about dropping that silly family tree idea and write a review of it's true, LB or noah's from the maha festival or good lord from any other local show? Seems like wasted energy...
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