Working for Beggars Group has some incredible perks! I can have almost any Beggars release that I want and on top of that I get VIP seats (when available) to any Beggars show.
My first free show was Yo La Tengo on September 25th at the Roseland Ballroom. Let me tell you something - the Roseland Ballroom is SWANKY. I mean to say that it is a nice place. That Rose Bar is something what I imagine when I think of bars that I will never see.
Anyway, Yo La Tengo was amazing. I've been listening to their new record (which I got for free) on the subway a lot, so I was really pumped for the show. What I didn't realize was that there was going to be a cool light show. Now, I don't mean laser lights or stage lights sweeping around and whatnot, what I mean is there was a screen behind YLT, and a group of people manually created the light show by reflecting lights and mirrors and whatnot onto the screen. Since I was upstairs in the VIP section I could actually walk behind the screen and watch them work, which I was cool. Here's a picture:
And here's a video:
The bottom line is that I have the best internship ever, and I plan on taking full advantage of not only the perks, but working with a real indie label. I'm often disappointed by the lack of discussion concerning the indies in classes at Belmont, especially since many of the professors have made it clear that they believe that major labels are, for the most part, dinosaurs.
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