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I suppose I've done a few of these, but I didn't know what ir was called. It's really a great idea, & great fun for the musos AND the sudience. And yes, it has a certain intimacy that's rare in most venues.

Gives new meaning to the phrase "house band'.

Probably not an option for a lot of bands but you could book a nice little tour and see the country at the same time. Sort of a music vacation.

Hosts get parties with live music. Bands get some money, and a captive audience. Could help spark renewed interest in live music.

Dude, we do this.
Leave all our heavy equipment at the METALSHOP and just take our amps.
It's a lot of fun.

Yeah, these have been around for years. I think these are the best kind of concerts because the audience is more intimate. I would do this for a living if at all possible. This was very common back in Ohio in the 90s.

Is the origin of most all classical music as well.
Not at all unusual for a composer to actually live in the mansions of his benefactor.
This is part of what I talk about when I go on about musicians / music going back to their roots. Entrepreneurs taking charge of their musical destiny without being saddled with the expense of middle men.
We are hampered by a belief that we need promoters, producers and a label.
It simply is not true.

sanshouheil wrote:Is the origin of most all classical music as well.
Not at all unusual for a composer to actually live in the mansions of his benefactor.
This is part of what I talk about when I go on about musicians / music going back to their roots. Entrepreneurs taking charge of their musical destiny without being saddled with the expense of middle men.
We are hampered by a belief that we need promoters, producers and a label.
It simply is not true.

They were at the tender mercies of their "benefactors," too, sans, who expected them to write & perform material based on the particular needs of those benefactors.

The musician was almost an owned commodity, a "human juke box," if you will.

You can take your "good ol' days."

My preferred good ol' days were from the '20's through the mid-70's. Everythig started to turn to sh*t after that. Those few decades were the very best in which to be a muso.

60s through the 80s

Again perhaps. But I'd have to take your word for it as I've only been " banding it " since 05.
I still say if "we" intend to do anything different than cheesedick pop.
We will have to make it happin cap'n ourselves.

sanshouheil wrote:Is the origin of most all classical music as well.

That's why it's called chamber music. Music that can be played in a room or chamber.

philbymon wrote:

sanshouheil wrote:Is the origin of most all classical music as well.
Not at all unusual for a composer to actually live in the mansions of his benefactor.
This is part of what I talk about when I go on about musicians / music going back to their roots. Entrepreneurs taking charge of their musical destiny without being saddled with the expense of middle men.
We are hampered by a belief that we need promoters, producers and a label.
It simply is not true.

They were at the tender mercies of their "benefactors," too, sans, who expected them to write & perform material based on the particular needs of those benefactors.

The musician was almost an owned commodity, a "human juke box," if you will.

You can take your "good ol' days."

My preferred good ol' days were from the '20's through the mid-70's. Everythig started to turn to sh*t after that. Those few decades were the very best in which to be a muso.

This is totally a different concept today.Musicians today are not "owned" as property. The concept of in-house concerts are still not common even among the wealthy, today. Plus you can have various styles of music played in a house concert. Whereas, back-in-the-day, there was only the classical chamber groups. You can make any kind of music chamber musi if the volume level is addressed.

When I was in high school we had these, except in my world they were called keggers(keg partays) and the pit was in the living room. Donations were all the free beer you could drink.

Kruliosis wrote:When I was in high school we had these, except in my world they were called keggers(keg partays) and the pit was in the living room. Donations were all the free beer you could drink.

Right On Man! I remember those.

YEAH ME TOO ! LOL