How often should Fishbon be producing Mainstage Events?

[Clay Bodine]

By Mainstage events, I mean large scale parties that incorporate interactive environments, dancing, performance (this could include dance and theatre pieces), and decor. They could take place in the street or at other larger venues and the total number of participants could be as many as 1000. They take at least 2 months to develop and build and usually consume major resources. What do you all think? Do you get burned out after one and need a 6 month downtime? Could you work on 4 per year?

[Clay Bodine]

I'll weigh in on this one. Mainstage events take a lot of time to produce--between initial concept, letting it percolate, prototyping, organizing, building and rehearsing. Unless you have abundant free time, you can only be a major player in 1 or 2 a year. But that is squandering an opportunity to keep the creative momentum flowing. In the past every event has drawn on the combined resources of Fishbon. What about multiple crews who work on events in different combinations? Not everyone needs to work on every event. That way we have more events, more energy, different styles--even guest production crews from other places (LA, Ojai, SF, San Luis, etc.). We could even build an infrastructure for cross-pollination.

[Tracy Beeler]

Four. 3 for sure.

[Clay Bodine]

Four would be cool. One for each season gets the energy of the cycle. I think it's possible as long as it doesn't fall to the same crew for each one.

[Lora wereb]

I also like the idea of 4 and yes it would need aleast two diffenet crews that work on alternating shows and productions that we could take around and perform

[Tracy Beeler]

Springtime would be the one I would support the least, depending on the content. To me it seems sacred and at the same time cruel, and therefore profound, Should we be pissing around with that?

[Katie Napalm Cleary]

I think four is a great number. I also think the Operas should be at the very beginning of the evening.

[Tracy Beeler]

2 good ones and maybe 3. I think 4 freaks me out.

[Tracy Beeler]

Im pretty sure that this is the wrongevent catagory but I am all about painting the ceiling of the Pescadrome black. Throw gum at me, snicker, do what you wish but it would create at feeling of infinity, and deinstitutionalize the upper area. Check out any club, black ceilings.

[Clay Bodine]

Actually, Dom and Jon and crew painted it black for New Year's in the main room. Makes a major difference.
They got the walls mostly done too.

[C.K.__DJ_Nine]

3 or 4 a year is awesome, its the themes that pull emotion, and emotions can be draining. Its better to have all hands strong and sound. Fishbon rocks it every time, so whether it is 1 show/party or 4, it will be amazing.

[Larry Nimmer]

4/yr

[Clay Bodine]

Hey Larry,

That's what I was thinking, but maybe with two different event crews so nobody gets burned out. BTW, thanks for the sweet Fishmas video. The shotgun mic worked really well.

Clay