Comments on: Don’t Park the Bus: Keeping SG Afloat

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:17:23 +0000

Thanks–hopefully we can cross paths!

By: Eddy A. Flick

Eddy A. Flick — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:13:13 +0000

Daniel,
I want you to know I do appreciate your blog very much. May God bless you. I’d love to meet you sometime. My wife and I plan to be at the NQC all week.
Keep up the good work.
BTW I am very much into acappella gospel singing and I’d love to start a group. I live near Chattanooga, TN.
And I’d love to have an all acappella singing some day. These may just be “pipe dreams” but I do know a miracle working God that can brings things to pass!

By: speckled bird

speckled bird — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:24:21 +0000

sounds to me like you dont know what you are talking about.
when i used to fill my bus up when we would leave out on thurs. of every week. it hurt then at 1.50 a gal. to fill up a 175 gal. tank by the time you done three dates and paid 5 band members it was hard to make it even then on what promoters wanted to pay i dont see how anybody can make it today, flats are not staying up with road cost @ 4.00 A GAL. FUEL, MOTELS,and food God forbid a flat tire. somethings gotta give and i’m afraid it will be the groups getting off the road. speckled bird.

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:09:28 +0000

Last I heard, they were off the road at least for now.

By: Bob Hughes

Bob Hughes — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:07:12 +0000

Daniel – you mentioned Valor in your post. Their website is still up, although I read that they disbanded last fall. Any updates on them?

By: abk

abk — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:00:40 +0000

Also…the ability to say the word NO. A particular manager of one our most successful quartets of the last 30+ years may be called to play Skunk Knob, Texas. He will check to see which general area it is located in and if necessary, he will say, “I really appreciate you calling, but we’re not real popular in that area and may not break even on that trip.” Simple traits like that help as well.

By: Eric Kaunitz

Eric Kaunitz — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:22:32 +0000

While it is a current concern, gas prices won’t be the death of Southern Gospel. It WILL adapt. Besides, A lot of well respected economist believe that the gas market will soon burst; bringing prices down to a more affordable level. Some even believe that this could happen by the end of the year.
So left your chins, and be of good cheer! SG is not going away. This is just one more hurtle that God, The Almighty, will jump for us.

By: J. Johnson

J. Johnson — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:50:23 +0000

If one considers the Isaacs as SG, they also have a paying fan club.