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If you're out there playing in loud bands you probably already know
how hard it is to find a decent place to rehearse.  Just when you
thought you had it made practicing at your lead guitar player's
house, some psychotic woman across the street goes berserk because
she can't concentrate while painting watercolors with the window
open.  Or something like that...

Anyway, after my band's own private El Guapo put an end to our
rehearsing at our lead player's house, we went through a great
heart-rending, soul-searching crisis of faith and finally ended up
renting commercial rehearsal space.  What a great situation!  All
you have to do is pay money and you can be loud at any time of the
day or night!

But it ain't cheap.  So, normally two bands share a single rehearsal
space and split the cost.   My band (Spaceba) has been doing this
for a few months now pretty happily.

However, we've decided to move to a newer, bigger, better, and
cleaner rehearsal space and we've left our old partner band behind.
So, we're looking for a new band to share our current space with.
(If we don't find one ourselves, we will eventually be given one.)

Here are some details:

        - The place is Krog Street Productions (KSP) which is a
        new facility built by Mark Mahony, who is a really terrific
        guy who also runs Black Box Studios nearby.  KSP is on Krog
        Street which is off Irwin sort of at the most western end
        of the Little Five Points area.

        - The rent is $390/month.  That's $195/month for each band,
        and each band can pay Mark separately.  For us that works
        out to $39/person/month.  Mark has been nice enough to
        allow us to pay just our half for a while even though we're
        the only ones in our space right now, but soon he'll insist
        that we either find a partner band of our own, take one
        he's found, or pay full price.

        - The place is fully optimized for band rehearsal.  The
        walls have 6" of acoustic foam in them and the doors have
        gaskets.  The power supply has been beefed up to accomodate
        very large loads.  The spaces are air conditioned.  The
        facility has a cyber lock on its main door, and each
        individual space has a deadbolt lock on a very massive
        door.  We will be getting a hasp for an additional padlock.
        Mark says that there has never been a breakin at KSP or
        Black Box.

        - Our room has at least 500 square feet.  It's nice and
        big.  It's a trapezoid, about like this:
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                        |          \
                        |           \
                        |            \
                        |             \
                        |              \
                        |               \
                        |                \
                        |                 \
                        ------door---------
                                                                
        - We've put carpet down in our room and painted some cool 
		  graphics on the walls.

        - Normally the two partner bands split the days of the week
        50-50.

        - There are a variety of ways to share the space.  We're
        hoping to work something out that's more efficient than
        just dividing the room in half.  (Besides, as you can see
        dividing it in half would be a little weird.)

        - There are a variety of ways to deal with two bands' worth
        of equipment.  There can be a strict "hands off" policy
        (which we had with our old roommates), or the two bands can
        work out some sharing.

We're hoping to find a cool, decent band that we can work easily with
to help keep our place the paradise that it is now.

If the above sounds interesting to you, email me (daver@cc.gatech.edu)
or leave a message on my machine (874-4064).

DR