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Originally Posted by metro
The question that hung in the air today 24 stories above OKC at the swanky Beacon Club was, can Oklahoma City be a music town – in the vain of other greats such as Seattle, Nashville and Austin?
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Yes it can, but it won't happen overnight.
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Originally Posted by Midtowner
too damn many cover bands.
Step one will be to somehow influence (improve) the city's taste in music as a whole. Does that start with new independent radio stations? Can that be profitable? Does it start with brilliant marketing? I'm just a guy who sees problems here... solutions are very evasive.
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There's nothing wrong with cover bands or the amount of them. The idea is to encourage more local talent to write and perform their own music.
Improving tastes in music is very subjective, what I think is good, you may not.
It starts with supporting what music venues we have here in OKC and expanding on that. Austin has an independent radio station that supports
local music.
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Originally Posted by TaoMaas
OKC doesn't seem to have enough mid-range venues.
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It's not just mid-range venues, it's all sizes that OKC is lacking in. Go to Austin and look around, almost every bar in the city has live music in it more than one night a week.