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Get out of the garage where you practice. Then, in the sweet, spare space, get into it and get good at it. Okay, never mind that I was the instructor. The students were dedicated, engaged, involved, interested and talented, the owners caring and nurturing and determined to ensure everyone's happiness - artistically and gastronomically.

To sit in overstuffed living-room chairs or to pace on a hardwood floor splashed with light from ample windows, all around a hand-built rock fireplace in a cabin of rich history and modern convenience The series draws top-flight writers in an intmate, safe all levels of litarary artists attend and art-drenched setting, where art and emotion run free. How much more energized can one get? All workshops begin at 10 a. Space is limited often; the room is intimate! Check out TIME magazine online. They've all been way much fun. Great entertainment, all FREE except for the meals and beverages, of course Call The Handlebar at or email handlebar handlebar-online.

Two weeks into the Fall semester at Converse College and, well, just speaking for me, we're having a blast At least, I am, anyway. I see passion, energy, and excitement fill the classroom at Blackman Hall, as we all just begin our individual and collective search for ways to: Build our own brands as we chase the careers that will make us happy and even one day make us money. Our aim is to exploit those carefully built and highly desirable brands, along with what we learn, question, and experience, to market not just ourselves as we navigate an entrance into our new and chosen professions, but to leverage those same brands into ways to Help recreate, even rebuild, an industry whose tectonic shifts, adaptations, and new power players and power centers change at mind-bending speed.

As we learn the foundations of what the music industry is, what it does and how it works, we grow to understand the core fundamentals, those things that really don't change much. Once we grasp that, we understand enough to know what works, what doesn't, what should be changed, what shouldn't, and how all of it might or might not apply to us.

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And that way, we Can explore the vast opportunities that await us in a vibrant industry that offers more options than we can consider, think about or even, given the rapid and relentless changes, know about today. Just so happens that we've just started out with one great opportunity: And our eight fantastic students heard the knock on this opportunity's door and are taking advantage of what could very well be the funnest, best class at Converse College. Already, we witnessed our first "show" at Daniel Recital Hall on the first day of class with the amazing and accomplished Charlie Jennings, a young promoter who helped shape the huge Bonnaroo festival, who started at Wofford, became and intern at The Handlebar, and who just recently moved on to incredible success as a Vice President at national promoter Danny Wimmer Presents in Los Angeles.

Each student asked important questions that demanded thorough and honest answers, answers that Mr.

Brauner filled with Big Names, important contacts, and the rich and important evolution of the music business in Joe's experience of the last 29 years. He told us the importance of relationships, including Putting Those Devices Down and interacting with those who will And we studied the text and other materials -- some online -- that have helped us understand in greater detail, with deeper perspectives, what this business is all about and can be about.

I'm thrilled to be part of this amazing, promising adventure with students who care so much and are already so engaged.

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And we've only just started having a blast. At least, I am. Posted by John Jeter at 7: Thursday, February 2, Art vs. A couple of years ago, the fine people at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville invited me to their fine weekend-long big-time book event because St. I was excited, not just because I got a chance to talk about my debut dream-come-true in public, but because I got the chance to go to Nashville. It's not that I'm a fan or anything and that Nashville's a big Mecca for me. In fact, I am a fan, a major fan, and it has cost me millions and not a little stress and personal destruction.

See, I'm a music-industry professional. I've been buying talent and promoting shows for 17 years at the concert hall that I opened with my wife and brother here in Greenville, SC. In my role in my company in the concert-touring business, I have worked with tons of talent agents who represent some of the finest musicians in the land.

We've played host to and have paid more than 3, artists over the years. Going to Nashville, then, was a fun thing for the book, but it also gave me another chance to meet up with agents, people with whom I had done business and had presumably built relationships through so many years. Many of them hard years. Of course, I was thinking: Me and my company pay around a half-million dollars a year to artists, many of them in and from Nashville.

And, from that, talent agencies get their 10 percent commission. Multiply that annual outlay by, say, 10 years, and that's some serious cheddar. With my book-festival invitation in hand, I send out the call that I'm going to be in town for a long weekend. Stop by, guys most of them are men.

Here's what critics said when THE PLUNDER ROOM came out

Easy to get to. Spend a minute, even two minutes! Heck, that's nothing compared with the thousands of dollars I send to you fellas every year buy your artists. Wanna know how many agents show up to wish me well?

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Pick up a copy? Spend a few minutes with me and my own art? Its thematic essence revolves around, you guessed it, Art vs. Commerce - what it's like to try and squeeze the toothpaste of art into the tube of commerce. But the music industry works to do it every day. Seems to me that agents are saying: If you're not writing a check to my agent for one of my artists, I could really give a crap about you or your venue.

There are a world full of gullible, guileless and idiotic mopes, some with even bigger checkbooks, who will pay my artists to play in their venue. My editor for my Handlebar book recently asked me to get a few back-cover blurbs - y'know, a sentence or two or three that says: She wants big-name artists who have played our room in the last 17 years. The bigger the name, the better the blurb, so the conventional literary thinking goes, the more the book sales. Like I said, we've had tons of artists.

Many of them have gone on to superstardom: We paid them pretty good money. Lost some money on a few of them. Took risks on all of them. Now I return to their agents and managers ask for a tiny favor from their artists: I start every novel about the South with a guarded skepticism. Well, my hat's off to John Jeter! His depiction of the southern characters, geography and relationships was pretty much a dead on accurate representation of countless families that live here now struggling with the ever evolving social climate of the South.

The characters are believable, engaging and endearing. I found myself wanting a sequel!! One aspect that stood out to me was Jeter's ability to write such entertaining and edgy dialogue. Some of the conversations between the characters are priceless!! I laughed out loud so many times. The story just flowed as the events unfolded to an end that I definitely did not expect. The Plunder Room is a great first novel and I can't wait for Jeter's next work!

If you're from the south, you'll feel respected and even a little vindicated. If you're from the north or anywhere else-- Welcome to my home!

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With The Plunder Room, John Jeter brings the southern novel squarely into the 21st century, with vivid contemporary situations and true-to-life characters, while keeping an important focus on good old-fashioned values. The language is unique and colorful, and reason enough in itself to spend a few hours immersed in this book. What I loved most about this novel is its believability. Having experienced military life in Germany, lived in the South for a decade, and taught high school for some of that time, I could relate intimately to so many parts of the story that The Plunder Room felt very real to me.

It brought out memories and emotions that made me at turns laugh and cry, the way a great book should do. I also loved how in the end I liked all the characters, even the not so savory ones, with one notable exception: One reviewer found the ending anticlimactic. I on the other hand found it refreshing that Jeter avoided falling into an overwrought Hollywood-type denouement, as so many novels are prone to do. The ending adds to the story's believability. This really could have happened in the big house down the road. See all 7 reviews. Most recent customer reviews.

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English Choose a language for shopping. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Plunder Room 3. Moments before Edward Duncan dies, the colorful World War II hero leaves a mandate for his grandson Randol--to safeguard the family's proud Southern legacy. Randol, paralyzed and in a wheelchair after a car accident, buries his grandfather, and learns that his father, a Vietnam veteran, is running an illicit empire with Randol's half-brother, Jerod.

A wise-cracking music cr Moments before Edward Duncan dies, the colorful World War II hero leaves a mandate for his grandson Randol--to safeguard the family's proud Southern legacy. A wise-cracking music critic, Randol already has his hands full with his pot-smoking Goth son. When Jerod brings the gorgeous Annie down South and parks her in their South Carolina home, the family maid Volusia, "quick to ram a bar of soap into any foul mouth," sizes up Annie in short order.

Jerod, his father, and Randol, are blind to what Volusia sees so easily, making it that much harder for Randol to bring the family together and salvage their dignity. John Jeter's debut is a powerfully compelling story about one man's mission to preserve his family's ideals of honor and loyalty. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

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To ask other readers questions about The Plunder Room , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Aug 17, Janelle Dazzlepants rated it it was amazing Shelves: This isn't what I'd usually read, and Im not sure if I'd have picked it up if I didnt win it from Goodreads, but I ended up quite liking it: It took me ages to read this, but not because it was bad - I just havent had time, which sucks because I really loved the characters.

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The description is so rich and the characters are so strong, and you really get a sense of their personality and quirks. I initially thought this was just going to be a book about a Southern family coming to terms with loss This isn't what I'd usually read, and Im not sure if I'd have picked it up if I didnt win it from Goodreads, but I ended up quite liking it: I initially thought this was just going to be a book about a Southern family coming to terms with loss, and that there'd be a lot of mysteries and sinister stuff in the Plunder Room, but it was a lot different than I expected.

It is about family and legacy, but it's much deeper, darker and more complex than that. Each character has their own struggles, and some characters have more than a few skeletons in the closet. It's about family dynamics, and how you can be related to someone yet know so little about them.

And of course, it shows how honour is so unimportant to people these days, as all the characters in the book are continually compared to the late and great Edward Randol Duncan. Without spoiling it, there's a really sinister subplot involving Annie Harkin, and although I kinda guessed what she might have been up to, I didn't want to believe it: It's really nice to see the whole family come together in the end, and this book is just a really great character study.