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Article: Fuel prices put brakes on indie bands' summer tours
- Article from:
- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Steven Garcia pulled into a Houston gas
station recently to fill up the old Dodge van his punk band uses on
summer tours.
For months, the 23-year-old singer-guitarist had been budgeting
money and booking show dates for Something Fierce's third tour - but
skyrocketing gas prices have put the brakes on those plans.
"Once I ran the numbers it was a 'There's no (expletive) way'
kind of moment," Garcia said. After much hand-wringing and grumbling
from bookers who'd scheduled the band to play, Garcia canceled the
tour.
Cramming into a rusty, creaky van and playing dive bars and house
parties is a summer ritual for many young musicians and ambitious
independent bands trying to ...
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