{"id":26947,"date":"2021-02-17T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26947"},"modified":"2021-02-17T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:19:04","slug":"ask-me-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/17\/ask-me-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"ASK ME ANYTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve managed<\/strong><\/span> a lot of bands. So I know a lot about marketing, booking and touring. I won’t tell you everything I know here, but I will say this much: the key to success is publicity stunts, cameo appearances at strip joints, and surreptitious holographic projections of your band’s PR photo onto billboards at midnight.<\/p>\n

The bands I manage make money — large<\/em> money. And you’ve probably never heard of them. Most Klezmer Guy blog readers think music ended in 1975.<\/p>\n

OK, you’ve heard of Vulfpeck. That’s because I bang on about that band so much here. I made Vulfpeck what they are today. The Vulf boys don’t know what a newspaper is, or a press release. I’m old school, they’re New School. They’re about social media. I’m about being social: Hello, my name is ____________<\/em>.\u00a0 I make many calls a day for Vulf. (Granted, half are to WE1-1212. More snow?)
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Right now <\/strong>two <\/span><\/span>Vulfpeck musicians are in Los Angeles, one is in Ann Arbor, and two are at a Bibibop in Carmel, Indiana. I monitor the boys’ moves and temperatures. I know how much water and booze they’ve drunk today, down to the cc.<\/p>\n

Ask me anything. (AMA, as we say on Reddit.)<\/p>\n

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\nCheck out this op-ed I wrote last week, “Stayin’ Alive — the Covid-19-shot Hustle,”<\/a> for the Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Guitarist Irwin Weinberger at Discount Drug Mart<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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