Page Two: An Immodest Proposal: Preventing the music scene from burdening the city
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Prelude: After SXSW started, whenever any representatives of the event traveled around the country to different cities, almost invariably someone would say to us, “The City must love you.” Here we almost always paused, not sure what to say. In point of fact, especially in the early years, dealing with the City presented some of the event’s biggest problems.
Introduction: Recently for a documentary on the Saxon Pub, I was involved in a roundtable discussion at Threadgill’s with Joe Ables (Saxon Pub), James White (Broken Spoke), Susan Antone (Antone’s), Steve Wertheimer (Continental Club, C-Boys), and our host, Threadgill’s owner Eddie Wilson. Talking about the past, the present, the future, some amazing stories were shared. What proved almost predictable is that all are still driven by a passion for music and a commitment to the scene. Unfortunately, also not surprising, they all agreed that in the history and present of their clubs most of the biggest problems confronting them involved dealing with the City – the maze of codes, often conflicting or contradicting each other, the constant backload of applications making everything move so slowly, and the myriad enforcement agents.
Very carefully, they made it clear that they were not complaining …
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