Advice from Wise Men- SXSW

All,

I've been talking to village elders, collecting advice from their experiences playing music on tour. One message has been loud and clear in all their voices, "Take advantage of SXSW!" Basically, we won't need to email, myspace, and pester people through communications channels if we meet them during SXSW. Everyone we need to meet, everyone that can give us a show in these cities, all the cool bands we need to play with and the radio dj's will be present, in our town, next week.

The elders have cried, "Save yourself the trouble and meet these people face to face, get thier phone number, tell them your plans, give them your music free, in hopes that they can offer a helping hand on tour. You need to be willing to approach people that look like they can help you, you need to make a point to find bands from your tour-cities, watch thier shows and meet them."

FG is playing Wednesday and Thursday, but I plan on networking as much as I can Friday and Saturday, and perhaps a little on the sabbath. As I tell you this I'm inviting you to come out and network, with or without me, and help all of us avoid future headaches and turmoil by contact folks now, in the convienence of our home city.

Also, advice which I value, though take with salt, has been that our tour plans are logistically ambitiious; not impossible, but ambitious. It has been suggested that we take a more narrow path to Chicago to minimize miles, mayhem, and potential mishaps. This route may avoid Nebraska, MN, and curve off ~800 miles from our trip, while still providing plenty of worthwile cities. This is something to stew on, we can decide as time progresses.