Not to sound bitter, but…

I’m looking at the City Stages lineup, and I’m noticing that a lot of the local folk that are slated to play this year are the same people that play year after year after year — not necessarily the biggest or most popular, either.

Let’s call them the best connected.

And this shouldn’t surprise me, and honestly doesn’t, but still…

Still.

I’ve played City Stages twice now — once with Full Moon Blanket, once with the Exhibit(s). And both times it was a blast, even if both times were the opening slots for the given day, meaning no crowd (no one shows up that early; just the way it goes), blistering heat, etc. And it’s great fun to play through a big sound system, and to have a huge stage upon which to run about and make Rawk Star Faces, but the main reason we played — we didn’t get paid, and I understand this to be the case with local acts in general — was exposure.

Not much of that happening at noon on Sunday. Or Saturday, for that matter.

Argh. Why am I bitching about this? It’s old news. It’s not changing anytime in my lifetime. It’s the way of the world, for that matter.

But it still sucks…