[NewMusic] discounts

[damon]

Yeah, there have been times to complain and this is just not one of  
them. Not only is the playing situation better than it has been from a  
musician perspective, I find myself going to see shows more and more.

damon

On Nov 16, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Jon Raskin wrote:

> What I think is really amazing about living here at this time is the  
> the community of musicians that are involved with, for lack of a  
> better term, creative music and I'm proud to be a part of it.  It  
> isn't driven by one person or place and it strives, is inquiring and  
> struglling with the hard task of making new, original, interesting  
> art. I really appreciate that it includes artsists jsut starting out  
> and others that have been at it longer than they care to remember.  It  
> is surviving through an attack of culture from the "right" side of the  
> country and in difficult local economic conditions.  That this sustain  
> effort has been going on for over a decade as amazing to me and is not  
> "normal".  If you are driven to create than this is a good place to be  
> with talented people that want to do work and struggle-   I say hats  
> off to all of you.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jon Raskin <sopranino at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:21:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] discounts
>
>
> I was sharing a 3 bedroom flat in the Haight and my share was $45 a  
> month.  This wasn't renting out the living room either.  As for the  
> potatoes- no problem if I can adjust for inflation.  New York was  
> pretty cheap as well if you lived in the ABC's by Thompson Square.     
> Marginal is Marginal and there is has always been a lot of it.
> Artists have always been the front line of "gentrification". In the  
> 70's warehouse space was plentiful and cheap in SF.  "Marginal"  
> relocated.  Artists need access to culture and cheap places to  
> live/work.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Praemedia <praemedia at yahoo.com>
> To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:38:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] discounts
>
>
> also be curious to know what zorn's rent was back
> then. won't find anything like it these days, though
> starving jobs pay just the same as then and tuitions
> have gone up faster than the rents....
>
> --- Praemedia <praemedia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> find me a $7 bag of potatoes big enough to last a
>> month and i'll find you some orange camo pants....
>>
>> --- Jon Raskin <sopranino at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> At Zorn's  Improve21 lecture he mentioned that in
>>> the 70's when he was in starving artist mode he
>> ate
>>> potatoes for three meals a day and spent $7 on bag
>>> that lasted a month.
>>
>
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