In The Music Business

The summer beat goes on and the enjoyable doesn't stop here in Chicago. We are coming to the end of July with a few free ideas to keep your groove going during these hot sizzling nights and days.





The day passes hiring a comedian with lots of desperate individuals wondering how they will go on. You go to sleep once again, assuming that you made it through the absence off physicians and didn't have an automobile smash that day.

It is nearly summer season and spring has actually sprung, and together with the funny people season planeloads after planeload of eager tourists are arriving on our ample runways, abundant to explore our districts and hinterlands, and even more puzzling our transportation infrastructure.

For decades, late night program comedians would often joke about Los Angeles motorists. I remember numerous years back on the Tonight Program with Johnny Carson, Alan King jesting; "Los Angeles; the only put on earth where you can have a traffic jam at 65 miles per hour." Los Angeles was the force of traffic jokes for several years. Well move over L.A., and let your next-door neighbors to the north; in and near San Francisco, take the lead.

My heresy will end with this declaration: the only way to save comics might be to let the comic market, as it exists today, shrivel up and pass away. It's on the road as it is, with everybody racing to tear whatever pieces they can obtain from its still (barely) living remains. The industry isn't the heart of comics and didn't make them, so attempt to be different. Put down the newest issue of the comic scans industry death watch, Wizard. Overlook the christmas party line that an indy book will sell less than 250 copies - there is a world outside of the Geppi chokehold.

Picture simply for a second that you got up tomorrow morning and unexpectedly there disappeared doctors anywhere. What a disaster! Even my partner who isn't really a strong supporter of the medical industry would lament their death.

You may just wish to sit down and consider what your resources are and if you have any connections. You may discover that somebody understands someone who can do you a favor. When you pull the committee together, you never understand exactly what you will find.