Booking. . .

Dear Mr. Booking Agent,

I just stumbled upon a video of your band on YouTube.  I heard you guys at the beach last year.  Very nice.  Jay and David (founding members of OHO) know your keyboardist very well and actually played in a band with him years ago.

Anyway, still hoping OHO can get a date(s) from you at the Downtown Club.  Fall or winter would be fine if your schedule is full.
Best,
Ray Jozwiak
Oho


Dear Ray,

I've had time to listen to some of your stuff and I don't think it's going to fly at The Downtown. We mainly book high energy pop/rock cover bands. Our demographic Thursday through Saturday nights is more of the young university crowd. We don't really do original bands & the covers you guys do are pretty obscure.

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A?

Mr. Booking Agent,

Thank you for taking the time to listen to Oho and for your kind response.

I presume you mean by 'high energy pop/rock cover bands' that each of them play virtually identical repertoire of predictable selections.  Also, do I read into your comment 'high-energy' that for some reason (longevity?) you presume a lack of or a 'low' energy quotient in us?

It seems odd to me that you give the university crowd, a population who is dedicating or will dedicate 4 to 6 years of their lives to LEARNING NEW THINGS, no credit for artistic open-mindedness.  Possibly you should reconsider ORIGINAL bands for the venue.

We seem to think that Beatles/McCartney/Lennon material as well as Leonard Cohen, the Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel and the like are ANYTHING BUT obscure.  But hey, that's just US!  What the hell do WE know????

Best,
Ray Jozwiak
Oho


or B?

Dear Mr. Booking Agent,

Thank you for taking the time to listen to Oho and for your kind response.  Should you and The Downtown decide on a change in format, we hope you will keep Oho in mind.

Best,
Ray Jozwiak
Oho

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Obscure. . .

. . . history. . .

(from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0501_river5.html)
On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana, some seven miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, carrying 2,300 just-released Union prisoners of war, plus crew and civilian passengers, exploded and sank. Some 1,700 people died.

It was the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, more costly than even the April 14, 1912 sinking of the Titanic, when 1,517 people were lost. But because the Sultana went down when it did, the disaster was not well covered in the newspapers or magazines, and was soon forgotten. It is scarcely remembered today.

April 1865 was a busy month; On April 9, at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrendered. Five days later President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. On April 26 his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was caught and killed. That same day General Joseph Johnson surrendered the last large Confederate army. Shortly thereafter Union troops captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The Civil War was over. Northern newspapers rejoiced.

News of a terrible steamboat tragedy was relegated to the newspaper's back pages. In a nation desensitized to death, 1,700 more did not seem such an enormous tragedy that it does today.

The accident happened at 2 a.m., when three of the steamship's four boilers exploded. The reason the death toll was almost exactly equal to the number of Union troops killed at the battle of Shiloh (1,758) was gross government incompetence. The Sultana was legally registered to carry 376 people. She had six times more than that on board, due to the bribery of army officers and the extreme desire of the former POWs to get home.

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