Post #4167332
2026-07-28 15:30 UTC
@thetonearm@social.lol
Here's a lesson I learned from The Beatles, although they said it in 1965 (Playboy interview):
While a popular band in both Liverpool and Hamburg, enough to get recognized on the street, nothing more really happened until on returning from another Hamburg gig, the next Liverpool gig billed them as "From Hamburg …"
Folks thought they were German and popularity skyrocketed from there.
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca 2026-07-28 17:49
@thetonearm@social.lol Bill Dixon recounted a similar strategy in the film Imagine The Sound. He, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and others into #FreeJazz were playing gigs in abandoned warehouses and cafés. Bill created a poster that merely implied these were already acclaimed famous artists, and at the bottom, a single line of praise from a Downbeat article, a rarity indeed at the time, but also a stamp of street cred. The poster was sent to all the jazz 'zines and radio hosts. They didn't rival the Beatles 🤣 but suddenly they were in demand and touring, and soon to be headliners.