Just like it says ... what's your favorite thing about Fall Crawl? What's your least favorite thing about it? ... Spill the beans!

Sweet! I get the first reply, and soon, I too will have more skulls than you! HA HA HA!

My favorite thing about the crawl would have to be the huge party-atomsphere and the music mixed into one bowl of cherries. When those two mix, it usually means good times! Good times! My least favorite thing about the crawl would have to be the countless number of women who reject me then that empty feeling of "loseritis" that I have to take home with me. But other than that, I dig the crawls, of course when I can get into my favorite venue!

--Third Hour
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wow, its already that time of year again?? I'm glad to see The Fall Crawl pushed back to when it used to happen... in october... in the FALL

I like the music...but the last few crawls I did I always seem to get some sort of strange illness and spend the next few days in bed! The very last spring crawl I did with Atomic Love MEdicine we played on Saterday night at 8:30 at Bannanna Joes. Man that sucked...and then the sickness. Hoping for greener pastures.
Long live Rock!
WJ

The best thing about the Crawls is the chance to see tons of bands without having to go too far. My suggestion is updating the band writeups in the Alibi-they've used the same ones that Henningson wrote like 2 years ago for several crawl issues of the Alibi.

the best part about the crawls is obviously the chance to see a load of bands in one night. It's also pretty sweet because in my experience there are fewer crap bands performing than usual on crawl nights. The worst thing about crawls for the gigging bands is the tight time frame. It's difficult to load in, set up, play, and pack up within an hour. Another downfall to the crawl has got be the overall ghettoness of many of the people who show up. I wonder if some of these people sleep in a cave under the city all year and then wake up on crawl night, toke some spray paint out of a crack pipe, and go downtown to harass all the chill people who just wanna have a good time.

The crawl is great for fans who do go out much to get exposed to bands they may not have seen otherwise. 5 minute sin hit the nail on the head with the downfalls. Bands need to recruit loaders to help them get gear in and out, and by the time the band is warmed up, the set is over. Last year some of the venues did not even seem to want live music, squeezing set times to get thier DJ's on. That was weak.

Oh, and did I mention parking....

The best part of the crawls is 100$!
Our equipment is just about had all the duct tape fall off, and now we can restock for the winter.

The worst part is people bitching about lineups and bands left off. The next worst is not knowing when and where until a couple of days beforehand. I really hope having the Alibi doing the Rocksquawk thing will give us a bit more warning and make it easier to contact bands and stuff like that.

Now, where's that bitching?

1-NO PIGS
2-NO cover bands
3-beer on the streets
4-joint vendors or bong rips priced according to
bong size and quality of weed
5-hookers...definitely need more hookers
6-alligator petting zoo
7-donkey basketball

ROOFUS

this will be the first crawl I've attended. I'm excited.

Allright......

Less Cops, No outdoor Stages or beer gardens (except District's), Less kids roaming around looking for trouble, More information made available.....in nice pocket sized schedule...including info on drunk busses and the like. Maybe a breakdown of bands by genre in the listings???

Maybe a whole lot more hot women!!!!

More bands, less DJs. Or Just fewer DJs. Dont start at 6. And if thats a good time for the crawl and I just dont know, have the DJs play early.

Better access for the bands to actually load equipment. I.E. Parking for bands.

Parking would be nice for the bands... and less DJ's... The only reason there should be a DJ is if they are making original beats, not repeating the same exact songs that they played the night before. We shouldn't include a venue if there not gonna let bands play live

Keep the ticket price down $10.00 to $15.00. Ten was great last year!
Make sure you have an All Age Venue (with liquor).
Parking for bands would be nice, maybe give a limited number of passes to band members.
Make a designated place in the venue for bands to sell merchandise.
Rotate the bands each year, that way others get a chance to play and this will bring new fans to the Crawl.
Advertise a little more with maybe an "Alibi" offical flyer that can be emailed to the bands to get the word out or have the flyer available at your office to come by and pick up a stack.
More street vendors with food. Hot dogs are great, but what else ya got?
Maybe do a carnival type atmosphere with street performers. Just until a certain time of the night because then the drunks can take it over and that's an act all in its self.
Have a few of those rickshaw bikes to take people back and fourth.
Have "Shorty" do an offical poster of the Crawl to sell.
Give aways are always good too. People love free stuff. T-shirts, stickers, pens, cups, etc... get these people who are on these street teams for the major record labels to come down and give that stuff away.

See ya at the show.
S-

One more thing - tell the cops to be a little nicer. They should mingle with people not ban together and intimidate people.

S-

We should be able to walk with a beer in our hand from venue to venue, like Vegas man! What goes on at the Crawl, stays at the Crawl, he he. I forgot to say, not the cheap beer like bud, have Guinness on tap everywhere! MMMMM Guinness!!!

It would be nice if the whole area was fenced off, and we could walk with a drink. But the city would shit a brick (the local TV news would have their head explode). the Alibi ain't the Wizard of Oz They can't change state and city laws or make people, businesses and cops nice. (where are these nice cops? I'll trade you)

if you made it last all day: 1. the quality would suffer. Or be more uneven at least. 2. people who came at 2pm or whatever would just split by the evening. At the "showcase" deal the crowd at 6 was a totally different crowd than the 11pm one (besides band members).
Maybe they could do one outdoor stage and have it start early, and do less venues, to keep a real community/event feel. Maybe one outdoor with beer and one outdoor all ages, both with like ten bands and then let the bars do the rest after 8 or 9 PM or something

There is plenty of time to set up and play even without backlining (we usually share with multiple bands if the venue isn't backlining). It would be nice to have clock watchers/stage managers though. At the last Crawl we didn't know how much time we had, and finished with 25 minutes left in our slot (sweaty as shit). Anyone who can't keep it in the hour they agreed to is a dick, pure and simple.To those people: we know who you are and we talk about you behind your back.

An official poster printing, with all the bands would be HOT. Don't spell our name wrong. a web link to an official poster the bands could use would be nice too. Changing the band write-ups would be great. I don't think you need to list every band, maybe some different bands?

I don't know about rotating the bands slots though. As much as I'm uncomfortable with bands getting grandfathered into an entitled slot, some bands do deserve it more than others. I like the bar request system. It's nice to know at least some people are picked by their draw and because they worked for it. Maybe there'd be more room if everyone good wasn't in five bands. Fucking side projects could have been an entire venue last time. Of course good bands get the shaft sometimes (Lousy Robot; and I'm sure we all could name at least one) and some vanity "all-star" band gets the gold. But what other way can they pick them? Are you just going to roll the dice and give a midnight slot to a band that's only played a few shows? Take a band that (yes, my band plays 4 or more a month) and ignore them? Put Oktober People at 6pm? (unlikely!) Maybe they could have a few slots voted on? I don't know, really. I'm asking if anyone has a better idea.

Go ahead and keep the DJs, but either separate the DJ venues from the band venues entirely, or Give each bar a couple and have the DJs on between bands.

Thank god there's no Banana Joe's with those fucking stairs, but maybe a couple of those empty places could be used as "backstage" areas? There's no shortage of them.

It's nice to have an official outlet to bitch on though. Thanks Alibi!

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Sell tickets and have the folks in charge count em and see who brings what? I'd do it in a heartbeat! This way you see who brings what and that determins where you play and what time etc...

Isn't this what you were complaining about in an earlier post in regards to the GIG. This kind of talk scares me, it's like musical AMWAY, this is exactly what makes LA a horrible place to be an artist, everyone at each others throats for a piece of the big pie... All or nothing... forgetting to put out records and tour, waiting for the big "A&R" payoff.
I think what your offering via fraction records is musical community, an alternative to the backstabbing LA bullshit. Competition like that turns us on each other. All the uglyness of pissed off girlscouts fighting over cookie sales.

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Originally posted by Jonathan Liber:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vi...A2460192174411865406 There's a myspace link for the twerp show at the Launchpad. Pretty packed huh?

I can count 40-50 people in the pic.
good job