Boycott Backfires

[floyds machine]

I just read the Soonet review of the show. 50 people showed up.
There you go Gsis Murphy. You f**ked Grady, Domenica and Wishbone with your dickbrained scheme. I hope you f**kin' rot you
scumbags.

["The Freq"]

Of course it did Floyd. There was never a doubt in my mind.
Every single scam Gsis Murphy tries to pull blows up in their faces.
Did Gsis Murphy fans attend the Grady show? Did they? You know the ones? Those apparent 1000 Gsis Murphy claims they have that always c**k off on every local forum? Of course not. They don't even know who Grady is. They probably couldn't even spell Grady.
Let's do the math.. 50 people at 10 bucks a head is $500.
Do you think Grady and Domenica played for 500 bucks? Not on your life. Had Gsis Murphy and the 2 other bands shut their big yaps and stopped thinking with their assholes , this gig would have had some Wishbone fans there to up the crowd and the money, but as the boycott came down, Wishbone fans said forget it. I hope the Canadian had to pay a lot for Grady for letting a candy ass group of do-gooders like Gsis Murphy dictate who plays their bar or not. Oh just so people know, Wishbone volunteered to play for FREE!!!! It wasn't going to cost the bar a damn cent. So this boycott screwed Grady, one of Canada's most original bands next to Big Sugar, not Wishbone. Nice going idiots.

[robfrules]

To be completely fair, it was a Sunday night for a show that didn't have a ton of promo. I don't even think Glen knew of the show until I invited him on Facebook. Yeah, the crowd was terribly small, but remember, Sunday nights aren't typical concert nights. That being said, I don't doubt that Wishbone fans chose not to go over this, but really, fans should judge whether they attend a show by the band quality over if their friend's playing. I'm not judging any bands' decisions or views, nor am I playing favourites, just sharing my thoughts.

By the way, it was a great concert. I easily might have been the youngest person there (20 years and 5 months), but meh, fun fun show! Gordie Johnson tore it up!

[Finger_Bang]

I think what was meant by Freq's post was that they could have had more people had some drama queens not messed things up. Having 100 to 150 people without drama is still better than 50 with drama.
yeah Sunday was not the best day for the show so I see your point.
and REO Speedwagon played too and they drew a solid crowd..

[robfrules]

Oct 27, 2009 17:26:40 GMT -5 Finger_Bang said:

I think what was meant by Freq's post was that they could have had more people had some drama queens not messed things up. Having 100 to 150 people without drama is still better than 50 with drama.
yeah Sunday was not the best day for the show so I see your point.
and REO Speedwagon played too and they drew a solid crowd..

I understand Glen's point, and I have no doubt that drew some fans away, but I don't wanna take sides. Wishbone have fans, as do the bands who threatened the boycott. And if Wishbone were to have played, the crowd's size might have been no different, just with different people not there. I just offered up another idea!

I wonder what the turnout will be like at Glen's next show?

["The Freq"]

Grady sure doesn't draw the numbers Big Sugar use to and that's do to a number of reasons. I won't get into them. To be honest, the boycott tainted the show. If not in attendance than just in the aura itself. It also hurt the bar. My forum
offends Gsis Murphy. I highly doubt any fans of Gsis Murphy or the bar had a clue about my forum until Gsis Murphy directed them here because I never post links to my forum except on my own blog or personal website. I don't draw my bands fans here. If they find it fine, but I don't advertise it. The ones that are members are the ones that came over from the old Musician Central days with a few others that just stumbled across it. What I'm saying is simply, the boycott was simply for Gsis Murphy and that most of their fans have no clue who I am. They probably don't even know about the boycott. You know, kind of a closed door thing. The ones that do know, were Wishbone fans.

With all the bands sitting in the wings ready to play, I'm sure if Gsis Murphy got sacked, there would be a number of bands to take it's place. I know there is. Most of the bands that play the Canadian these days just don't draw. They may draw at Docks but it comes down to is it the band or the bar that people are attracted to? In most cases .. it's the bar. Sundays at the Canadian in the 90's were hopping but like you said, this show wasn't advertised and that's a major blunder. It is common for a bar not to advertise. Why? Money I guess. I know the posters for the Grady show were made less than a week before the show and we were on them. We got axed close to show time so who knows if the posters got changed. The boycott really changed nothing except keep the jobs of 3 bands.

My next gig will be in Guam, Rob|O|

I know when I played live with Huckster at Docks, there were Gsis Murphy fans there and some of their relatives. Nah.. they don't come to support you. They want to see you fall on your face. |O|
Strange, they never boycotted that show? I wonder why? That was like 4 or 5 months ago? I've been verbal about Gsis Murphy much longer than that. Strange eh? What's the difference? I was part of both bands.. yet no Docks boycott. Maybe there is someone else in Wishbone they don't like. |O| Maybe they're afraid of Wishbone in general. I'm sure if Wishbone played the Grady show, Murphy fans would have been their just to "boo" me on. |O| Guess we'll never know now.

Well considering I'm friends with a few of the bar owners of the "other" establishments in town, I know I will have a place to play
when Flat Stanley is ready with their debut of all original material. A little boycott will never stop The Freq.
I also have a wonderful "internet" idea in the works for Flat Stanley. It will be a VIP event with no party crashers ;-)

[quartermass]

I'll sum it up. The boycott was stupid. Nobody benefited. What could have been is now too late and in the past. I'm sure Freq will have gigs. It is odd they never boycotted Huckster. These boobs are selective on what gigs they ruin eh Freq?

["The Freq"]

You are right Quartermass. ;-) Remember though... I love to type |O|

I am hearing backlash aka word of mouth about the poor decision of the bar owner on how he let bands dictate his business. People have really found that odd. I listened to 5 people mention that to me yesterday. The other point many have mentioned is how these bands have taken my forum or statements out of context and placed links on their sites and other forums and point them back to a specific thread here to gain support for their dumb drama games, trying to make it like their boycott was justified. The problem is, this forum is totally readable once you get here and people have been finding out that the opinions of the Cheese Kings is only a small part of this forum and that most of it revolves around my own projects and the music I love. Had I wanted to start a "Gsis Murphy Blows Dead Bears" site I could do so easily. Hmmmm. What a great idea eh? These people, that Gsis Murphy actually sends here, have found out that I yap more about my own projects and that sickens them more than any comment about Gsis Freq'n Murphy. |O|
GREAT,, that's all I want to hear. This site is about ME ME ME. ;-)
and finally people are "getting it". :-)

There is a warning placed on my site (how many times have I mentioned it?) and even after that warning was placed, Smurfs decided that the warnings didn't apply to them and they took links to my specific threads and posted them on other music and personal forums including their own Facebook pages. Pssst.. Smurfs.... we all know you do it!!! I can't stop that, but you are making people aware that my forum is NOT about Gsis Murphy even if your name is mentioned . To me, the title of the forum was a dead give away HA!!! "FREQ's MUSIC PLANET". Contained within it's walls is the thread "The GARBAGE PIT". It's called "The Garbage Pit" because it has nothing to do with music. It does however contain idiots and some of their ploys and opinions about them. It contains points about people who have done stupid and tasteless things to me or others. It contains comments about people who put themselves into the media like Sootoday News for doing Illegal things like DUI. We didn't put you into the news.. YOU DID!! We here have the right to comment on them as part of FREE SPEECH. If you do something DUMB, and our forum members hear about it, you can be sure it will be mentioned in the Garbage Pit. If you keep your nose clean in public, you won't be mentioned in the Garbage Pit. If you are naughty to me, you will be mentioned in the Garbage Pit. If you do GOOD, you will be mentioned elsewhere in the forum AND other forums. It is a known fact Gsis Murphy is not about music and only about drama. This is why they are mentioned in the Garbage Pit thread and why they are the poster child for that thread. I'm sorry but you haven't changed your ways in over 2 decades and thus, the Garbage Pit is your destiny. It's simple mathematics.
2+2 = 4 . Duh!!
Action = Reaction
Gsis Murphy does dumb thing = Freq notes it in The Garbage Pit
Boycott the Freq = Catch some Flack |O|

["The Freq"]

*yawn*