Big Tex murdered by his sponsors

Well lets be honest Big Tex wears Dickey's Clothes.                                                             When most of us think of "Dickey's" most do not think Western garb any more. We think hoodies, oversized khaki pants and typical hoodlum looking Hip Hop culture esque wear.                                                                                                                                            Perhaps when he is re-imagined we will see Hiphop/Swag Tex . With pants firmly across his knees and his ass hanging out for all to see in horror.  Headphones and hoodies with a baseball style hat that never seems to fit on his head as intended in it's design.  Perhaps a "Big" oversized faux bling watch. Sporting some brand new just out of the box white sneakers.                                                                                                 With even newer additional sponsored accessories like a temp phone placed in his hand. Along with other sorts of adverts for  tobacco, liquor stores, check cashing ,bail bonds, etc etc etc.  Oh yeah and Budweiser's in there somewhere too.                                                                                                            Perhaps a hand full of dollar bills so people Identify with him more.                                  Perhaps a Giant Ipod/ phone to go with Big Tex and  a giant video display to match.So people can be informed on whats hot in music,life systle,culture.      With even more product placements and sponsors putting products into perspective. Giving us some eye candy that the everyday kind of person who identifies with "Dickey's Clothing" can relate with. 

I do realize times have changed. However times are changing again.                        

I always feel that the most successful night clubs are always going to be the ones that promote there own artist , musicians and over all entertainment for there own venues. These venues keep a higher level of entertainment by keeping quality talent in there own venues.   The music tends to be very forward thinking and people generally do not care about your socioeconomic status. The clubs create word of mouth and have a constant flow of new customers.

 Venues that are for rent and do not promote there own entertainment will always be struggling.                                                                                                              Most require that the entertainment/promotion group has to  promote there own nights in there venue 100%.The problem is that most of this as a business model does not work with a few hit and mostly misses.  It is good for entry level people in the scene to get a leg up and into the club scene. It works on some levels for smaller venues that only depend on high volume weekend traffic to keep them afloat.
However the problem is that  advertisement is a business expense. Small venues often miss the point that spending on there own venue's advertisements cost them money. As anyone in business will tell you. Advertisement's Pays!  It also can be deducted as a business expense on taxes. Clubs that do not contribute to there own venues promotions will always be a the bottom end of revenue for night clubs. If you figure that the when things are bad in business they are really bad. The good nights might stabilize you're bottom line but will not keep you in business in the long term. The overall constant is the lack of night life experience for your club will often create a constant stream of bad experiences not enough new business and cascade you into closing.

 We have some clubs offering life style "exclusivity" by bottle servicing  and premium pricing. That will always keep most  people away and honestly only attracts the people who in general want to show off there disposable income. However, the only people who seem to really care about this is other superficial people who are just as shallow and self fulfilling, gold diggers, the club owner and your classic 30-K millionaires. For the most part these clubs cater to work obsessed or the idle rich who are generally clueless to the world around them. The music for these clubs tends to be very generic for those who don't have time to keep up on music. They tend to spend more on life style orientated advertisement for people who long to belong who feel that socializing with the right people is the most important thing in life. What the result is generic people and venue.  These venues make lots of money for shot amounts of time.They generally go out of business because in  this business model is self destructive when , your customer base jump ship for newer, hotter, more happening venues that all ride the trendy bandwagon, and do not produce more substance. These tend to be the biggest money laundering vehicles for anyone looking to wash dirty money.

Grind2Shine Podcast May Part 2
John Daily "Sun Burst" Los Updates & Ricardo Villalobos "I Miss U" (Endless Summer Remix) Sebastian Davidson "Johnny" (BarBQ Remix) Akabu "Not Afraid of the Future" (DJ Fudge Remix) Slam "Eterna" (John Digweed & Nick Muir Remix) Gurhan "Between Us" (Terry Lee Brown Jr Remix) Tennis "Make It Good" (Ryan Elliot Remix) Dj Sneak "Wickedy Soundz" (Johnny Fiasco Remix) *Ross MT Park "Krill" Prototype Platinum Records*** Vital & Hubb "Switch Back" (Deez Afro Dub) Martin Zeyss "Keep On" (Shur I Kan Remix ) Kruse & Nuernberg "Daze With Out You" (zeitgeit Remix) Joe Stawarz " M-17"{Ambivilent Bi-ways Remix) Ian O'Donovan "Reign Orion " (Ioan Gamboa Remix) Dosem "How DO You Do It" Ang Strom " Gorilla" Tube & Berger "Soul Good" S-Groove "Feel Your Soul" (Randall Jones Remix) Timo Garcia " Shamen" (Sisko Electrofanatik Remix) Mark E Oranges (Space Dub) Vince Watson "Voodoo Disco (Latin Mix) Manuel Tur "The Next Life" (From the Swans Reflecting Elephants on Freerange Uk.

New Genre Alert

OK new Genre Alert. For all the Electro-Pop, Rap-Mashup's  commercial Dub-Step & Cheesey Commercial trance Djs calling there shit House music.

Here it is....

 'Jersey Shore Spray Tan Trailer House Music'.   Here is why.

 It is really passed it expiration date .
Won't be around in the future.
Has filtered down into Trailer parks across the USA. (Why do you think all the people who used to be into Rap metal, heavy metal , Coke Rapper Ghetto rap and other wise "Junt" "Junt" forms of music all want to be Djs now.
Also explains why EDM now is just about people standing around watching  the stage waiting for somthing to happen instead of dancing.
It's about as fake & fleeting as a fake spray on tan.
Filled with a bunch of douche bags & Wanna B. rapper types that are so convinced that some how the music they play is some how different than what Pauly D plays.

It used to be respectable  when it was true house music, but now its White trash ghetto nation of wannaB djs.
Just like MTV its really not about the music any more. Filled with a bunch of pousers and decoys.

People need to stop calling there shit House Music. When it is anything but.... House.      Electro Pop? ,Commercial Dance Music,  yes,
Retro trance perhaps, Akoi Cake throwing jams ?,Stadium Anthem Music + Fire Works, NU-Rave, Electro-Bop.

 Playing Stardust in the middle of your set does not make you house, and neither does "Show ME Love"   or some horrible re-hash.  
         
                                                                                                       Calling it house is the same as trying to label  Pink Floyd as Industrial . Trying to label Blur as Country music. Labeling a Sci-Fi movie as a Romantic Comedy.    Calling a history book a work of  Greek  poetry.    
 One might have elements of the other and be a category in the same subject.  

Or just  call it "IT's Funky but it Ain't House"  

Whats the deal with Young people practicing there  Djing in front of the mirror?  Working on there crowd looks??????

As March & Miami Leaves us in 2012 we are sitting on a mountain of music. I would just like to say thank you to everyone who listens , subscribes, downloads my selections for the Grind2Shine Podcast. See myself ,Hulon Pate Live @ The Absinthe Lounge in Dallas Texas April 22, & April 29th for Deep After Dark a night of Underground House & Deep Techno Soul 




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Gotye "Somebody That I Used To Know" ( Dirty Secret's Late Night Mix) Freaks & Stella Attar "We Move" Darlyn Vlys "Culture" (Alli Borem Remix) 3Hundreds "Back In Love" Mechanique "Lips"(Dirk Schoenhoefer Rework) Volkan Ozer "Don't Be Afraid" Glimpse & Martin Dawson "Our Friends" (Vox) Raid Over Moscow "Rush to the Capsule" (Ewan Pearson Remix) Elon "Up North" MVIP "Barrique" (Vincenzo Remix) Sebastian Davidson "Kolari" Mark Broom "Box Set" Orbital "Wonky" Lp Mix Feat . Lady Leshurr Ryan Thompson " Falling Underground" (Freaky Disco) Groove Armada " OH Tweak ME" Fort Romeau " Jack Rollin" Dark Works" "No Guest List" Dean Beaker" Believe in Me" Danism "Say It Out Loud" Vincenzo "Yeah, Yeah , Yeah" Phil Weeks "Disco Inferno" Christian Scott "Lost" Simon Baker "Human Mystery" Intruder (A Murk Production) feat. Jei - Amame (Luke Solomons Live Revision) Sasse " Feel It" (Alain Ho Mental Beauty Remix) Hernan Cattaneo & Sound Exile " Japanese Snow Bell " (Manuel Sofia Remix)

FM Music still sucks

I was reading some very good point's by Tom Leykis , on how so many radio station managers and corporate programming systems,  ran FM radio into the ground over the last decade.                                                                                                                               I have to say, people who are honestly not in touch with or deeply into music , really have no business in the programming aspects of radio.                                                                                                                    If you can't pick or decide on the music to play(Programming) on your own, and you have to depend on a focus group to decide your play list.  Perhaps you have no business , deciding on the programming.                                                                                                                     Focus groups only ensures a bunch of clueless people who know even less about music than the corporate people who hired them to make a choice.                                                                                    They ultimately decide on what music gets played on the air, and in the rotation  by 'what music would be less likely  to not  have the channel changed while playing'.                                                                     Which seems to be the biggest factor for focus groups for F.M. radio music programming these days.                                                                                                                       The end result is more of the same, predictable tired and saturated.                                                   Original programming used to make radio exciting.  Now days I can't see why anyone would spend money to advertise on the radio. Radio is dead. However in Dallas we have over 12 Spanish speaking stations on F.M.                                                                        I will honestly say I have  never really been a huge fan of radio. The major factor has always been, I was always able to go find new music on my own.  However I can really see why this had made the night club culture in America with bad music.