How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party

[fomofo]

This is a really good/fascinating/disgusting/sad read!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-private-party

If you get paywall'd try browser reader view as soon as it's an option

[old goat]

I've heard that Bill Kirchen likes to do weddings and I'm sure his fee is a lot less than Beyonce's. If you like dieselbilly, which I do.

[AdironRider]

Get that paper

[BmillsSkier]

Get that paper

[fomofo]

I've heard that Bill Kirchen likes to do weddings and I'm sure his fee is a lot less than Beyonce's. If you like dieselbilly, which I do.

Way back in the late 70's there was a band that played regularly in a little bar that had a lanky guitar player with big Buddy Holly glasses, and damn he was good! That was Bill Kirchen. I think the band was Eggs Over Easy, but it mighta been called something else.

I'm not sure if Kirchen was with em during this earlier part of their run, but it's an interesting story nonetheless...

https://www.npr.org/2016/06/21/48287...f-1970s-london

Get that paper

Nothing wrong with musicians making a living, and there have always been privates (casuals), but JFC, the ridiculous (obscene) amounts of money being thrown around these days. It's just another indication of how far out of whack shit has become.

[lowsparkco]

The writer must have been paid by the word.

[John_B]

The writer must have been paid by the word.

It's the New Yorker. They are all paid by the word. At one point in every feature I read in the magazine I turn the page and think: "Jesus Christ!?! There is another page after this one?!"

[SkiBall]

Aren’t they already making hundreds of dollars per year off their Spotify, etc streams?

[old goat]

It's the New Yorker. They are all paid by the word. At one point in every feature I read in the magazine I turn the page and think: "Jesus Christ!?! There is another page after this one?!"

The New Yorker is for old constipated fucks like me that like to have an article last for an entire shit.

Most of the shows I go to are in a friends backyard in Sacramento. He can get 300 in there. Americana, includding Bill Kirchen. Used to be $20 a show, keg beer included. All proceeds to the band after the beer and sound are paid for. My friend says the gigs are a good deal for the level of acts he has--they come looking for him, not visa versa. I've been to some great shows there. Eilen Jewell is next--whichever night she's not at Hardly Strictly.

[riser4]

The New Yorker is for old constipated fucks like me that like to have an article last for an entire shit.

LULZ

Most of the shows I go to are in a friends backyard in Sacramento. He can get 300 in there. Americana, includding Bill Kirchen. Used to be $20 a show, keg beer included. All proceeds to the band after the beer and sound are paid for. My friend says the gigs are a good deal for the level of acts he has--they come looking for him, not visa versa. I've been to some great shows there. Eilen Jewell is next--whichever night she's not at Hardly Strictly.

That's cool. He doesn't get any static from city or neighbors for running an unlicensed venue?