BS: Trouble with promo ads

Subject: Trouble with promo ads
From: reggie miles
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 09:38 PM

I know there are some who are not active as entertainers/musicians but for those who are...

I thought when deciding upon a stage name I had found a fairly goof proof one but this last weekend I was listed by several papers as Reggie White. That's quite a stretch for a typo. Locally here there is another Reggie that gets around to many of the same venues that I gig at but I haven't heard of a Reggie White. The owner of the coffee house I played, which handled the avertising, said he didn't know what had happened. We had a great time just the same. I didn't get a chance to meet Reggie White though. ;~)

Any similar stories of advertising gone awry out there?

Subject: RE: BS: Trouble with promo ads
From: SeanM
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 09:43 PM

I'm in a moderately comedy based folk group, going by the name "Smokey Knott and the Bollweevils". At our various gigs, we've been "Smiley Knott", "Bollwiefels", "Smokey" and any number of other weird variants.

I sometimes wonder if they really just don't care...

*dramatic sigh*

M

Subject: RE: BS: Trouble with promo ads
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 09:50 PM

My group is officially called "The Torrington Fiddlers Association". Unofficially, we have been called the Old Time Fiddlers, the Goshen Co. Fiddlers, and many other variations. Now I just tell the audience we answer to almost anything, including the Estes Park Pipe Band.

Subject: RE: BS: Trouble with promo ads
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:05 PM

My brother has a simple name, only four letters in each of his first and last names. In four years of playing high school sports, our local paper never ONCE managed to print his entire name without an error.

Subject: RE: BS: Trouble with promo ads
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:28 PM

Like Mario's, not folk related, but our shop was named "French Run Automotive" because of the area of town named for a little creek. We used to get some strange inversions and misspellings of the name.....My favorite being a letter addressed to French RUB Automotive. I guess they thought we built make-out chariots or something.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Trouble with promo ads
From: Hotspur
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 10:42 PM

My Dad's name is Ian, and here in the craven United States, it gives people fits. His name has been mangled every possible way: Eye-ann, Ee-on, Eye-on, Eene, Yon, etc. Plus, he regularly gets letter addressed to Dan, Sam, Jan, Jon, Lon, Land, etc, etc. Sigh. And it's only three letters!

Subject: RE: BS: Trouble with promo ads
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:25 PM

My wife and I, doing a program in New York City a few years ago, were announced in the Village Voice as "The Putons." I kinda liked it. "The Put-Ons," sort of like Sam the Sham, but Caroline wouldn't let me keep it. Of course we've also been the Paxtons a few times, but she wouldn't let me ask for more money as a result. Such an honest woman!

Sandy Paton

Subject: RE: BS: Trouble with promo ads
From: annamill
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:31 PM

Ha! Good one! Just the thing to get me out of Vietnam!

My honey has a band (not folk, I'm afraid) called jettyrats. Anyone who surfs knows the reference.. in our local rag (The Asbury Park Press) they annonced that "JeLLyrats" were playing at the Bootlegger in Highlands. They still get teased. Tee Hee! I love him!

Love, annap

Subject: RE: BS: Trouble with promo ads
From: GUEST,Les B
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:51 PM

For Saura's flamenco film version of the opera Carmen, our local ad rep decided to upset both opera and bird lovers with the line "see the sizzling flamingo version..." !