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Popularity rank 1 #173. Audience hate = respect

September 18, 2008

JOHN: ...and if you get another guitar, we can even do the thing where we make the audience wait while you switch them.

DAN: Don't they hate that?
JOHN: Audience golden rule: what they HATE, they RESPECT.

DAN: Even that night at Rockwood? That was all... respect.
JOHN: Oh, totally. TOTAL respect.

DAN: Even that old handicapped woman?
JOHN: Well, yeah, you gotta, y'know, read between the fistfights.

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Popularity rank 2 #157. Who’s Here To Support Your Band?

December 13, 2006

NATE: Yeah, our usual contingent of fans are here to vote for us, those 50 or so people back by the bar.

NATE: Who's here to support your band?
DAN: Well, them over there. They're here for us.

NATE: The one Korean guy?
DAN: Well, and his two little kids. Oh, and there! That old Italian woman. That's John's mom.
MOM:

NATE: She's got one of our t-shirts on, dude.
DAN: Oh. OK. Well, just the Koreans then.

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Popularity rank 3 #224. Manufacturing indie cred

March 26, 2009

TONY KING THE AGENT: OK, Gordon... we replaced the ACTUAL intimate folk open mic audience with industry YES-MEN, your TWITTER followers and paid BACKGROUND ACTORS.

TONY KING THE AGENT: We've also GUTTED the club and put in TVs, LIGHTING and a state-of-the-art $500,000 SOUNDSYSTEM.
GORDON CRANWICK: OK...

GORDON CRANWICK: This'll still give me INDIE CRED though, right?

TONY KING THE AGENT: SURE, SURE... we just gotta phrase the press release carefully, big guy...
GORDON CRANWICK: BLEAH! These melons are too FRESH!!

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Popularity rank 4 #223. Laying down some crowdtalk

March 25, 2009

GORDON CRANWICK: (singing) Creatioooon of broooken- Oops, lemme take that again...
COLIN THE WHITE GUY WITH DREADS: Ha! Kinda tough when it's not PRERECORDED, huh, man? STICK TO STADIUMS, SELLOUT!

GORDON CRANWICK: Be COOL, Gordon... This is that classic AUDIENCE INTERACTION you get in small venue shows. We just gotta lay some charming CROWDTALK on him, like you did in the old days.

GORDON CRANWICK: SECURITY, get this little ASSTOASTER out of my SIGHT!

GORDON CRANWICK: Guess that crowdtalk muscle has ATROPHIED a little...
COLIN THE WHITE GUY WITH DREADS: HEY, you can't just- OW!! Hands off the DREADS, dude!!!

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Popularity rank 5 #222. No show for Gordo

March 24, 2009

GORDON CRANWICK: There's no one fucking HERE, Colin!
COLIN THE WHITE GUY WITH DREADS: We don't get big crowds. I TOLD you that.

GORDON CRANWICK: But Gordon Cranwick of Jumpstart Malady is doing a surprise impromptu acoustic SOLO SET!!
TONY KING THE AGENT: Gordon, you said NOT to advertise it.

GORDON CRANWICK: I figured you wouldn't be able to contain yourself!
TONY KING THE AGENT: Yes, well... sadly I successfully contained myself.

GORDON CRANWICK: I've been practicing for this impromptu set for weeks!
COLIN THE WHITE GUY WITH DREADS: Look, we gotta get started. They do a Guitar Hero tournament in here at 9...

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