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Wannes,
When I was last in Europe, it was nearly 35 years ago, as a
GI. Good times, I wouldn't trade them for all the world. <g>
Your point about the economics of shipping product is well
taken. Yes, it could be very costly to ship "pre-made" CD's
across the pond in either direction. I'd propose that some
one find a way to act as a central clearing house that can
authorize the local production of X number of copies for an
upcoming event. These local reproductions would have to meet
stringent criteria, and there may be some form of Bond required,
but I *think* that these are merely business issues, and they
shouldn't be insurmountable.
It may come to pass that there's really no one central focus
point (on each continent), there comes into existance a sort
of network of agreements between each vendor and some other
sub-vendor, but again, that's to be determined in the future.
What I was more interested in was setting up a network of
trustworthy volunteers that would take the responsibility of
securing a vendor's promise to provide product, arrange for
a display booth, schedule staffing for the booth, yadda, yadda,
you get the drift. I think a core group of volunteers who
didn't have to travel very far could still blanket a large
percentage of "county fairs", and they could act as regional
supervisors in getting more volunteers enthused about going
out in their own areas, and promoting Surf Music to the
masses.
Here in my area, we have a State Fair every year, and they have
nearly 2,000 booths/vendors. When you consider that almost nobody
attending such a fair will visit only a few select booths - they
want to see everything, you realize the potential exposure can
be enormous. (Over 1.3 million visitors to the State Fair last
year.) Even in a 'back corner', out of the main path, visitors
will still get around to you eventually. All you need is a set
of speakers playing the best music on the planet, a few cute
wahinis, and you've got instant sales! <lol> Hell, I can even
envision setting up a guitar or two, and inviting customers to
sit down and jam with you, the stereo, whatever.
OK, time to hear from the other side of the equation. Sean,
what do you think of this cornball idea?
unlunf
--- In , "mono_tones_1" <rockverb@...> wrote:
>
> me like very much unlunf .... great idea.
>
> I'd love to set something like that up in the netherlands,
> problem of couse wold be hat no way do I have money to keep
> stock - and sending back and forth from the US would be to
> much for the bands. Not a clue how that works either,
> "normally". Maybe I could do it with Euro bands.
>
> BTW, I think that if you set up a booth with a sound system of
> some sort and just spin surf tunes all day, you'll attract plenty
> people. Dress up the booth with palm plants, some tiki stuff and
> nice lighting, and people are bound to check it out.
>
> Here's a tip: any of you familiar with eddie luca in the
> netherlands? Apart from his internet store, he also shows up at
> surf gigs and festivals, maybe he also attends fairs, tattooshows,
> car shows and stuff like that. he usually has a couple of hundreds
> of cd's with him, all waves represented. very cool guy. if any of
> you is not in his catalog, it my be worth shooting him a mail. I
> don 't know how he runs his business, i.e. who pays for his
> inventory. He's a bit more expensive then ordering straight form
> the US, but I buy from him on occasion anyway, cause I like him
> and his business.
>
> WR
>
