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Started 3 years ago by GW_Justice
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GW_Justice
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The Other Paper had a lead article last week about the ComFest that whined about the weird hippy cult and its entertainment committee, who are accused of having a secret selection process that was only revealed by the crack reporting of Lyndsey Teter. She somehow was able to delve into the â€œshrouded in mysteryâ€ group and was able to produce a list of ways to get your band onto the stage.
The story proclaimed â€œThere is no guideâ€”written or otherwiseâ€”that outlines how to land your band a spot in the coveted ComFest.â€. Really? I wonder if there is some way to know if that is true?
â€œSherman, set the Wayback Machine for ... 1998â€
Oh hi Mr. Peabody, whats that you say? You have an archive of the ComFest website back to 1998?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.comfest.com
Cool, that shows the long history of the ComFest website, lots of interesting history in those links. And what do we find in the May 5, 1999 ComFest website, on the application page?
http://web.archive.org/web/19990427163828/www.comfest.com/applications.html
Oh no â€“ looks like little miss reporter got her story a bit wrong. That page has a long, detailed section about the Entertainment Committee and the selection process. As in â€œwritten guideâ€.
And reading through the other versions of the ComFest website over the years, I see the application page has pretty much always had a guide to getting on the stage.
As the kids say, Lyndsey Teter, you fail at the internets.
Later: I'm not a regular reader of CU, so I didn't know about the history of Ms. Teter and this blog. An editorial slant that promotes controversy and selective quotes to support it seems to be standard for both her and TOP.
Read the thread from May for more on this reporter.
http://www.columbusunderground.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14043&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=lyndsey%20teter&start=0

Posted 3 years ago #
th0m
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absolutely brilliant. thank you.

Posted 3 years ago #
Ndcent
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I read this yesterday at lunch. I thought the remark about Dicks Den was quite slanderous.

Posted 3 years ago #
TheOtherZach
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I refuse to believe that The Other Paper would ever make a factually incorrect statement.

Posted 3 years ago #
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GW_Justice wrote
looks like little miss reporter got her story a bit wrong. That page has a long, detailed section about the Entertainment Committee and the selection process. As in â€œwritten guideâ€.
And reading through the other versions of the ComFest website over the years, I see the application page has pretty much always had a guide to getting on the stage.
As the kids say, Lyndsey Teater, you fail at the internets.
Yeah...the Comfest website is a fair and accurate source, right????
Laughable.
If anything, Teater downplayed the shitty methods of the Comfest Committee.
Try this one: ask any band who has played Comfest more than once how accurate the TOP article is as compared to the bullshit Comfest website.
Comfest organizers absolutely suck at the way they bring in bands...and that is why Comfest bands are shitty.....and getting worse every year

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BCOZ wrote
GW_Justice wrote
looks like little miss reporter got her story a bit wrong. That page has a long, detailed section about the Entertainment Committee and the selection process. As in â€œwritten guideâ€.
And reading through the other versions of the ComFest website over the years, I see the application page has pretty much always had a guide to getting on the stage.
As the kids say, Lyndsey Teater, you fail at the internets.
Yeah...the Comfest website is a fair and accurate source, right????
Laughable.
If anything, Teater downplayed the shitty methods of the Comfest Committee.
Try this one: ask any band who has played Comfest more than once how accurate the TOP article is as compared to the bullshit Comfest website.
Comfest organizers absolutely suck at the way they bring in bands...and that is why Comfest bands are shitty.....and getting worse every year
Theres bands at Comfest? I guess I did think I heard some music inbetween my pouring cans of Bud Light into my stolen mug.

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GW_Justice
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BCOZ wrote
Yeah...the Comfest website is a fair and accurate source, right????
Laughable.
If anything, Teater downplayed the shitty methods of the Comfest Committee.
Try this one: ask any band who has played Comfest more than once how accurate the TOP article is as compared to the bullshit Comfest website.
Comfest organizers absolutely suck at the way they bring in bands...and that is why Comfest bands are shitty.....and getting worse every year
BCOZ (or is your name Eric Johns, the author of the "I hate ComFest" diatribe"), the point is that the Teter article has been proven factually wrong. Unless the people at the Internet Archive are part of some hippy conspiracy, the link I posted shows that the ComFest has been printing a guide to getting your band on the stage since 1998. If you read that link you will see that the criteria has not changed, and if you have ever talked to a ComFest committee member in the last 30 years or so you would have gotten the same basic set of rules.
It boils down to this:
1. Prove your band doesn't suck. This can be done by playing at a number of venues and developing a following of people who enjoy your music.
2. Prove your band members are good community members. Playing at benefits and volunteering (including at the ComFest) helps.
Maybe you would prefer that the selection process for bands was something else, perhaps a popular vote. You would probably then be complaining that the vote was rigged.
Contrary to the Teter article, the selection process is not a secret, and has not changed in many years. Bitter whining by those who have not made the cut is unfortunate, but expected. Stop being a downer and play better music. Maybe rejection by the ComFest will inspire you to write better songs.

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Rocknrolloutlaws
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I understand it sucks when you don't get in and bands that you think aren't as good as you do. But isn't it the nature of things that people will get denied?
And yeah, it sounds like there's a sense that the entertainment committee or whoever just picks people they like to play. But, isn't that part of it too?
As other people have pointed out, it's not like this conversation doesn't occur EVERY YEAR. So when you apply to play Comfest, you know ahead of time this will be an issue.
While I think is most amusing about TOP story is that it's basically an abridged version of a donewaiting thread...whole lot of work had to go into that one.

Posted 3 years ago #
Coremodels
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bottom line, the evil committee happens to play a part in putting on the best festival in the city every year. They don't get rich doing this, they do it because the love the city, the festival, and bust their asses to get it done. In the process, they end up with multiple stages filled with a huge variety of entertainment...and even at that, someone has to be left out.
For all the bands and/or musicians crying because they were that someone, I'd recommend investing in a box of tissues and a dress for next year...and next week...and every other disappointment life is certain to deliver.
wah...motherfucking...wah.

Posted 3 years ago #
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BCOZ wrote
BCOZ (or is your name Eric Johns, the author of the "I hate ComFest" diatribe"),
Contrary to the Teter article, the selection process is not a secret, and has not changed in many years. Bitter whining by those who have not made the cut is unfortunate, but expected. Stop being a downer and play better music. Maybe rejection by the ComFest will inspire you to write better songs.
I am not eric Johns. I thought his article was more tongue-in-chhek than diatribe, but whatever
You and I have actually met (lol).
I am basing my post on acts that have been at Comfest many times...and the way the committee actually works...not how it says it works. I know bands...bands know Comfest. Those bands wouldn't return even if asked.
BTW if "not sucking" were an actual criteria then absolutely NONE of this years' bands (that i saw/heard) would have made the cut. Worst year ever for bands IMO. Cover bands??? sheesh!!!!

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Coremodels wrote bottom line, the evil committee happens to play a part in putting on the best festival in the city every year. They don't get rich doing this, they do it because the love the city, the festival, and bust their asses to get it done. In the process, they end up with multiple stages filled with a huge variety of entertainment...and even at that, someone has to be left out.
For all the bands and/or musicians crying because they were that someone, I'd recommend investing in a box of tissues and a dress for next year...and next week...and every other disappointment life is certain to deliver.
wah...motherfucking...wah.
Well said.

Posted 3 years ago #
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ComFest virgin speaking here, but of the dozen or so acts I saw (I would've seen more but I was volunteering, plus I had alternate plans Saturday night), I enjoyed most of them and there were a few I would gladly pay money to see again. Methinks you have a pretty high threshold for what constitutes good bands.

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Matthew
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I'd like to see a thread thanking the Comfest volunteers for a job well done. It can't be easy to bust your ass year after year just so people can sit around and bitch about how you suck. Some of the complainers need to get up off their crying asses and go show us how it's really done- then maybe we can read something positive for once.
Here's a clue. If you don't like the entertainment, or the layout of the activities, if the website sucks, or you just like to bitch you way through life - then don't fucking participate!

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Ndcent wrote
Coremodels wrote bottom line, the evil committee happens to play a part in putting on the best festival in the city every year. They don't get rich doing this, they do it because the love the city, the festival, and bust their asses to get it done. In the process, they end up with multiple stages filled with a huge variety of entertainment...and even at that, someone has to be left out.
For all the bands and/or musicians crying because they were that someone, I'd recommend investing in a box of tissues and a dress for next year...and next week...and every other disappointment life is certain to deliver.
wah...motherfucking...wah.
Well said.
+2

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Cyclist
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If you read page 4 at the bottom of the 2008 program it makes a slam on hipters slamming the comfest organizers. I take both sides.
I quote. "...a few sullen hipsters continue to regard ComFest simply as a "hippie festival" that should "get out of the sixties" it goes on a little more.
I felt this statement was un-warrented. But the author did take the time to explain his position.
So hipsters prefer indie music that makes no money over the multi-million dollar estates of Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix.
I felt that TOP's article was pretty petty and whiny, but that is what I would expect from the town's biggest tabloid.
Some bands don't get there applications in on time.
Some bands are out of town touring.
I highly doubt the ComFest illuminati has blacklists and grudgelists.
But i don't know...............

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Cookie
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Cyclist wrote I highly doubt the ComFest illuminati has blacklists and grudgelists.
People from the Comfest Entertainment Committee confirmed that they did on Done Waiting.

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Coremodels
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Cookie wrote
Cyclist wrote I highly doubt the ComFest illuminati has blacklists and grudgelists.
People from the Comfest Entertainment Committee confirmed that they did on Done Waiting.
Then it must be true...
:lol:

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Cookie wrote
Cyclist wrote I highly doubt the ComFest illuminati has blacklists and grudgelists.
People from the Comfest Entertainment Committee confirmed that they did on Done Waiting.
And I also recall bands admitting that Comfest was their first gig ever which kinda blows the theory that you must be a proven live performer.
And I also must say that after reading all those pages on DW on the subject that I'd rather poke my eyes out than read one more page of it over here. :D

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Coremodels
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osulew wrote
Cookie wrote
Cyclist wrote I highly doubt the ComFest illuminati has blacklists and grudgelists.
People from the Comfest Entertainment Committee confirmed that they did on Done Waiting.
And I also recall bands admitting that Comfest was their first gig ever which kinda blows the theory that you [/i]must[i] be a proven live performer.
And I also must say that after reading all those pages on DW on the subject that I'd rather poke my eyes out than read one more page of it over here. :D
wait, are you saying that really bitter wannabe bands that are convinced their lack of success is due to a conspiracy rather than their giant amount of suck shouldn't bring their angry angst to Columbus Underground?
Frankly, I think we all need a lot more of that.
And hemorrhoids.

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Cookie
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Coremodels wrote wait, are you saying that really bitter wannabe bands that are convinced their lack of success is due to a conspiracy rather than their giant amount of suck shouldn't bring their angry angst to Columbus Underground?
Nobody is doing any such thing.

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