A bit of explanation...
Mark Twain is said to have once wrote:
"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times."
This still holds true.
We were asked to host a night at a local gay club here in Cincinnati about a year after Zazoo was "born." we agreed, but only on our terms...
What did this mean? Well...
1. Good music.
2. No crappy Drag Queens badly lipsyching to 3 year-old songs.
3. "Freaks" got in free
They reluctantly agreed to all terms, but to accomplish this, we had to:
1. Bring in our own DJ (for free)
2. Have substitute acts (for free)
3. Bring in our own crowd
The first two weren't too difficult. The third nearly killed us. We spent 7 weeks going to this club on Fridays and Saturdays(paying cover and for all our drinks) handing out flyers and promoting. We made 14 new costumes so that Zazoo would not be seen in the same one twice while promoting. We went to the local straight alternative clubs later on each of those evenings to covertly promote...
The result? The 2nd biggest night that the club had seen in about 10 years. (No way we could compete with Ms Debbie Harry.)
We had one incredible night of clubbing in Cincinnati... For one night we got a break from "Celine Dion Nation." People dressed up, the dance floor was packed from about 11pm to 3:30am. People STILL come up to us and talk about how that night stands out as one of Cincinnati's best club nights ever.
We had anticipated teaching the club how to do it. And letting them promote their own nights, and hire the DJ that we introduced them to, but it didn't happen. We got $100 for all our efforts. We've never gotten in free at the damn place...
After a few weeks the new people we had brought in got sick of the crappy Diva-House and jeans and khaki crowd and stopped coming back. After it was clear that we would have to wait another 10 years or so for Cincinnati to catch up, we decided to travel A LOT.
We have been on the cast of dancers at "Warehouse", and "Venus" has asked us to host a night, but the law of inertia holds very true here. Cincinnati is a body at rest, and it's not getting up to shake it's groove thing any time soon.
What people in larger cities take for granted, we have to hunt and work for. We don't get choices. It's not like we can say... "Hmmm. Do you feel like going to Brooklyn, or staying in the East Village tonight?" or "Hmmm. Feeling more like 'Berlin' or 'Exit'?"
And, what we do is not appreciated here. Believe it or not we get nothing from any of the clubs we go to in the tri-state area. i.e. We pay all covers and pay full price for all our drinks. "Warehouse" is the only exception.
What am I trying to say? I kinda got lost in the rant...
Oh, yes. "The Motherboards" themselves are already the online "convention for the unconventional." Chi Chi and Johnny have created it,and we love being members. It is the most remarkable way of interacting with others similar to us all over the world.
And the results for us have been direct and measurable.
The biggest being our involvement in the "Party Monster" movie. There is no other way that we could have known about Michael Wilkinson's need for costumes, and no other way we could have gotten the right contacts to get the opportunity to be extras.
So, not to squash the idea completely, if you've got an idea on how we could create a niche on here that could be more specialized we'd love to hear it and work on it!
XXXOOO
Satori
[This message was edited by TonyaKnudsen on 08-22-02 at 11:39 PM.]