Musicians Wanted For Three-Minute Sets
- All genres sought for short, inconvenient and obscure gigs.
- Also: no pay.
- Getting lost and/or rained on a definite possibility
- But we will love you!
But we only have one projector, which means each movie has between three and five pauses between reels. Pauses filled with uncertainty and suspense: will Doris Day actually get into the bathtub with Rock Hudson? Will the Bad News Bears make their flight to Tokyo on time? Will the Flying WASP escape being sunk by the Seafood? The tension is palpable, and the silence is deafening.
Meanwhile, I'm cursing away with a flashlight in my mouth, trying to thread the next reel and not get bitten by snakes hiding in the projector cover (actually happened.)
That's where the music comes in! We're looking for solo musicians and groups of all genres — folk acoustic, jazz piano, electric guitar, ukelele, old-school Boston hardcore acts — to play three-minute gigs between reels. The songs played could be from the soundtrack (ever wanted an excuse to sing Kenny Loggins' "I'm All Right"?), or be relevant to what's going on when the reel ends. Win the adulation of a small number of movie adventurers! Bring home stories of being struck by lightning while in the middle of performing "Stormy Weather!" Perform that musical-saw version of the "Raiders of the Last Ark" theme you've been working on!
We can provide electric power, plus optional amplification through an Ampeg Lee Jackson stack (pictured at left), the official amp stack of hair metal. We can also provide a stool, a rudimentary spotlight, and enthusiastic applause. And we'll do our best to keep the snakes away.
Let me know if you're interested, and we'll let you know what movies we're thinking about showing, so you can pick what you might want to play. Please send your demos, MySpace band links, pictures of snakebite kits, and what have you to: .
Thanks very much! This is gonna be great!
Cordial regards,
John Young
