12 Aug
2005
12 Aug
'05
11:17 a.m.
Rumor has it that Lyle Bickley may have mentioned these words:
On Friday 12 August 2005 08:10, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
I disagree... here's why:
I was contacted by this guy who makes music using
old synths and vintage
8-bitters as instruments.
You can hear one of his songs here:
http://www.myspace.com/quarknova
Note: requires a modern browser with fancy plug-ins to play.
I'm thinking of booking a band like this to play at VCF 8.0.
What do you folks think?
I think a band is way secondary to broader advertising of VCF. One of the complaints I regularly heard from both
vendors and exhibitors the
last VCF was the lack of general public attendance.
I'd rather see $$ spent
go to advertising VCF in the San Jose Mercury News, Palo Alto Times,
Mountain View Voice, etc.
Boatloads of advertising won't get the general public through the door if
there's nothing at the venue they're interested in.
[As proven] Not many people can learn to appreciate a PDP-8 or Newton PDA,
but almost everyone can appreciate music of some form or another.
If the vendors are looking for a broader general public attendance, there's
going to have to be more (or at least more varied) offerings that can
appeal to the general public at large.
Now, if you could book Kraftwerk... ;-)
As always, JMHO...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
P.S. How about a Vintage Arcade game section - or at least a Vintage
Computer Game section? Any VCF that I'd be able to attend I would be glad
to donate a computer or two with classic games for folks to play... Just a
[prolly bad] thought...
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