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One Battle Draws Bigger Crowds For Bands
The recent popularity of the battle of the bands has a few people questioning how these events should be judged. For the most part, there seems to be two different judging techniques. The first is The American Idol technique, which some say is truly just another edition of American Band Stand. If you remember they used the audience to decide if a song had a good beat, and American Idol makes use of the fans to establish who will be removed each episode. The second method is The Gong Show approach, which is a group of people who are there deciding the winners and losers.
Both techniques seem to work well, but are not without their flaws. The first method, at times only decides which band is most popular with the crowd, and if a particular band has more fans then they have a huge advantage over the other artists. So the concerts can be much like a popularity contest, which some argue is exactly what the music business is a popularity contest. That logic is hard to dispute given that the bands that are the most popular do sell the most music, and get played a lot more often on the radio, which is what most bands hope to do, get played on the radio and sell their music to people.
The second technique, where a group of judges determine everyone’s fate has its flaws too. Any judge that doesn’t like a particular kind of music is going to be bias against a group that performs that kind of music. Then there is the conspiracy dilemma. If a judge has a friendship with any of the other groups on a certain show then can he or she really be fair. Even in the unlikely chance that the judge can put his or her personal feelings away will the losing bands think the process was fair? Even when no one has any such relationship with any band will the losing groups believe the process was fairly judged without bias, probably not? This puts the promoter’s integrity at risk every time he has an event that uses a panel of judges.
Other considerations are which sort of event will draw the largest crowd? In these scenarios both the event organizer and the group performing are looking for the largest audience achievable. For local concerts crowds are obtained by way of networking not promotions. It’s not likely that a big advertising campaign is going to entice an audience for an event full of practically unknown bands. Therefore, virtually all local events consisting of local artists are network driven concerts, which means if the bands do a excellent job telling their followers the venue will be packed if they don’t the concert will be empty.
In a club the size of Northern Lights in Albany or Crossroads Garwood NJ it's really important that local bands bring their fans to help pack the room.
The panel of judge’s format gives groups no reason to draw their crowd to The Battle Of The Bands. Where as the battles that use audience participation give bands a lot of reasons to network, and to bring as many followers as possible, which ironically benefits all the bands even though they are competitors.
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