Ethnography Week 7

Well as time goes on the band's schedule is filling up more and more with events and shows that they must practice for and perform. This past week the big event occurred and my friend's band performed as the opener to the entire event. This was on Saturday morning as everyone was getting there assignments and when everyone was sitting around. The band came into town a couple of days before in order to practice and get ready for the event. Since a permanent guitarist has yet to be found, a friend of my friend who can play guitar is currently filling in. He will probably play any shows that the band needs for the next few months but he is not looking to be there currently. So they have frantically been practicing in order to get him ready for this first real event that the band has performed. The show went pretty well with minor problems throughout the hour. The crowd seemed interested but since it was eight in the morning, most people were still pretty out of it. Most of the crowd sat in front of the stage and listened. There were a couple of people dancing and getting up towards the end. The band ended up selling 15 or so CDs at the event which is fairly good right now since they are new and the fact that this generation is moving much more towards buying digitally their music. Statistics from their iTunes page and various websites can actually tell if they got any positive press from this event. This was true since they sold about 40 sales just after the event occurred.