Musician Christopher Bryant 'Opens For Himself' To Connect With Fans… And To Find New Ones
from the cool-ideas dept
We’re always interested in cool promotional and marketing ideas from content creators, and Hypebot alerts us to the news that musician Christopher Bryant is planning a neat concept for his solo shows: throughout 2010, he’ll “open for himself” when playing live. Basically, he’s playing two sets, but the first set will all be music by another artist. The first such artist is Ben Harper, who is apparently a huge inspiration to Bryant:
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Comments on “Musician Christopher Bryant 'Opens For Himself' To Connect With Fans… And To Find New Ones”
Been done
Paul and Storm (best known for supporting Jonathan Coulton) found themselves in the same city on the same night as They Might Be Giants.
P&S decided to join, rather than fight, them and performed TMBG’s epic album Flood in its entirety. (To rather mixed reviews, but then they only had a week or so notice.)
opening for yourself isn’t a very new concept. Frank Zappa did it pretty much for his entire performing career.
For at least one tour, Gwar opened for themselves as X-Cops.
What is old is new again, I guess.
Credit where credit’s due for thinking out of the box, but unless the opening set is radically different in style and content, there isn’t much to this concept beyond the buzzword.
Quite frankly, it says nothing good about the state of the recording industry that a minor gimmick like this even merits a plug on Techdirt.
Would he pay?
Is he paying the covers?
Have him already clear with the folks from ASCAP or wathever?
Did he ask permition from the original artist?
Hope he did or people will be calling him a immoral pirate to say the least.
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Same thing I’ve been doing for years!
Very nice concept
…and nice music 🙂